International Entrepreneurship [MC]

Leerdoelen

The students are introduced to entrepreneurship as an academic discipline and as a practice from multi-disciplinary perspective. Students will gain insight in different forms of entrepreneurship: start-up entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship theories and their relevance and applicability for the practice of entrepreneurship will be discussed.  

Inhoud

Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering, evaluating and exploiting opportunities for new, innovative products and services around which a business is created, in other words the process of creating and growing new businesses and firms. Entrepreneurship is discussed as universal phenomena which is independent of geography or industry.  The Entrepreneur is the one who drives this process. Entrepreneurship is an academic discipline as well as a practice. Entrepreneurship complements business studies disciplines like Management, Organization and Strategy, Marketing and Information Management in that it deals with startups and young (entrepreneurial) firms whereas the former are mainly concerned with large established firms. The course discusses  International Entrepreneurship -  the crossroad between International Business and Entrepreneurship. Among the topics to be discussed in the lectures are: theory of entrepreneurship, networks in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and globalization, opportunity recognition, cases in entrepreneurship, venture capital - financing entrepreneurial ventures, ,corporate entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, In addition to regular lectures a guest presentation by entrepreneurs will be given.

During the course, students-teams will work with the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship at Science Park ( ace@sciencepark.nl), on developing business cases and business plans for students based ventures. 

Aanbevolen voorkennis

Cases in Entrepreneurship [VV] / Cases in Entrepreneurship [AC] and E-Business [KV] / E-Business [EC]

Aanmelden

Please go to https://www.sis.uva.nl

Onderwijsvorm

Lectures, discussion seminars, students presentations, guest lecture, video presentations, simulation, business planning project (in team). 

Onderwijstijden

Please go to http://rooster.uva.nl

Studiemateriaal

• Reference book will be announced in the first lecture
• Journal articles, will be available on Blackboard at https://blackboard.ic.uva.nl

Aantal deelnemers

25 students per group.

Toetsvorm

Grades are based on (individual and team) assignments and participation as follows:

1. Essay (30%)
2. Case study (30%)
3. Business Plan (30%)
4. Participation (10%)

Toetsdata

Please go to http://rooster.uva.nl and http://www.student.uva.nl/feb-academicyear

Bijzonderheden

This course can only be taken by students who started their  Master's in Business Studies before May 2011.