Finding Your Business Idea (5 cr)

Learning outcomes

The student is able to:
- develop networking skills and recognize the importance of the essential interest groups to the success of the enterprise
- develop, document, present and analyze business ideas
- build up the team around one's idea and act entrepreneurially as a team member
- utilize various ideation and business development methods
- recognize and analyze customer problems and needs, create value based on understanding of customer needs, validate and develop the business idea together with the customers

Materials

See instructions in optima at the kickoff meeting

Teaching methods

Finding and Testing Your Business Idea study units are mentored at face to face meetings both at Leppävaara and Otaniemi campuses

Program consist of personal F2F meetings, visitors and guest lecturers, visits and events outside Laurea campuses.

Working language is both English and Finnish. The student can choose either Finnish or English, when writing all the needed assignments. Material is mainly in English.

Content:
•60 % Business Idea portfolio
•20% Pitching
•20% Blogs/ reports of entrepreneurial stories and your learnings from them

Employer connections

Visits and events outside Laurea campuses

Exam schedules

The Autumn content will be informed in more detail at kick-off meeting on Wednesday 5.9.2018 at 16 – 17.45 o’clock, Otaniemi, room 324.

We meet mainly on weekly basis on Wednesdays at 16 o’clock until end of October.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Further information

When you have idea start with this study unit and continue then with R0437 Testing Your Business Idea