FEUP IET Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship

Business Construction Course

Objectives, Skills and Learning Outcomes

Context and aims

• To endow students with fundamental concepts about the process of development of a company and its obligations towards the government;
• To develop and extend the process of analysis in order to carry out a business plan of a new technology-based company;
• To develop presentation techniques according to investor’s agenda.

At the end of this course unit, students should be capable of:

• creating a complete, concise and well founded business plan;
• knowing the legal procedures associated to the creation of a new company, as well as its main obligations towards the government;
• presenting an entrepreneurial project with a technological base to a potential investor or financing institutions.

Program

• Business plan: structure, connection to the process of strategic analysis and explanation;
• Creation of companies: legal context, procedures, taxation and other obligations towards the government;
• Investor’s agenda: risk capital, bank financing, government support funds, stock marker functioning and financing structure of a new technology- base company.

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