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Equip students with knowledge and skills to transform research-based ideas into successful ventures. Explore innovation processes, idea development, and startup characteristics. Practical business plan writing included. Course focuses on research-based business concepts and practical business creation.
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ENT 4000 From idea to business Centre of Entrepreneurship Autumn 2008
Course content With the main focus on research- and knowledge-based innovation, this course aims to give the students a basic understanding of innovation processes and how to create a new venture. Students will gain an insight into how to deal with these processes. In this course we touch upon the following questions: • How can research and knowledge be turned into a business concept? • What characterises an innovation? • How does an idea become a business idea? • What is required to turn a business idea into a professional business? • What are the characteristics of a successful start-up?
Learning outcomes The objective is to give the students a theoretical and practical understanding of how to create a research- or knowledge-based business idea, and how such ideas could become the foundation of an actual business.
Teaching • Lectures: Tuesday 14.15 – 16.00 Undervisningsrom 9 • Tutored group work: Tuesday 16.15 – 18.00 Tutor: LivMaritNæss, Masterstudent SFE
Curriculum "Technology Ventures, from Idea to Enterprise” by Richard C.Dorfog Thomas H.Byers, McGraw-Hill Education – Europe Second edition.
Course evaluation and exam • Students will work in groups writing a business plan. This will start in medio September, and the plan has to be handed in by the end of November (the exact date will soon be announced). Students can work on own projects or they will find new projects through the FRUST- process). • The oral examination and the course evaluation will be based on the business plan