Finding Your Business Idea (5 cr)
Code: R0436-TOY1811
General information
- Enrollment
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14.05.2018 - 19.08.2018
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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05.09.2018 - 31.10.2018
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 2 cr
- Virtual proportion
- 3 cr
- RDI proportion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Campus
- Laurea Otaniemi
- Laurea Leppävaara
- Teaching languages
- English
- Finnish
- Seats
- 2 - 20
- Degree programmes
- Laurea täydentävä osaaminen, amk-tutkinto (TOY2), Yhteiset opinnot
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