From SSKE
FEUP IET Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship
Introduction to Entrepreneurship Course
Objectives, Skills and Learning Outcomes
The labour market has suffered profound changes in the last few years, therefore it now calls for professionals who can act with independence, autonomy, flexibility, creativity, commitment and who can collaborate.
The strategic aim of this course unit is to spread an entrepreneur culture, by combining a set of technical and social skills, which are aimed to encourage the creation of new entrepreneurship or technological intra-entrepreneurship projects.
Thus, this course unit aims to contribute to the development of an entrepreneur attitude and to make students look closely to subjects related to the entrepreneurship process, by training them and giving examples.
The operational aims of this course unit are the following:
- To be capable of understanding the impact of entrepreneurship in economic and social development;
- To be capable of understanding the basic notions of entrepreneurship, its main concepts and recognising the entrepreneurship process;
- To develop skills related to the entrepreneurship process, involving a set of relevant subjects to the development of new companies and sustained innovation by existing companies.
- To develop skills of analysis and critical discussion of real situations of the entrepreneurship process.
Program
1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship
2. Notions and concepts: Innovation; Entrepreneurship and intra-entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and academic entrepreneurship
- The entrepreneurship and the process of economic and social development
- The entrepreneurship dynamic and involving factors
3. The role of the entrepreneur
The profile of the entrepreneur: instrumental, personal, technical and management skills
4. The process of Entrepreneurship
- Systematisation of the entrepreneurship process
- Case studies
5. Definition and identification of business opportunities
The identification of opportunity sources
- The generation of ideas
- The assessment of opportunities
- Decision making
- Practical exercises
