ENT 3513 Growth Strategy for Start-Ups
ENT 3513 Growth Strategy for Start-Ups
In this course, you will learn about how innovation ecosystems contribute to the development of innovative growth companies in the region we are located in. Next, you will learn about different fundamental forms of business models, how strategy, business models and business development are interconnected and how the different business models scale. Finally, we will identify and analyze selected companies with assumed scaling potential and sustainability.
In this course, students will gain a good understanding of the innovation environments in their own region, understand how such ecosystems can create growth companies and what norms and behaviors are important in such environments. Students will also gain knowledge about different types of business models and learn to analyze growth companies and their strategies using these. Students will also gain knowledge about and a good understanding of what is required in the transition from early-stage start-up to scale-up, and in the development steps that typically follow thereafter.
Students will learn to organize a joint research project where they will gain a good understanding of local innovation environments and companies and learn to actively participate in them with what they can contribute. They will also become good at contacting interesting growth companies, developing networks and acquiring understandings and norms of behavior that are important for contributing to the development of innovative companies. They will also acquire basic skills in strategic analysis of growth companies.
During the course, the student will develop the capacity for critical reflection, constructive participation in the field of practice as well as in class. They will gain ability to connect practice in the innovation ecosystems in the local environment to their education in entrepreneurship in such a way that the learning outcome increases and the students' real-world competence towards innovative companies is strengthened.
- Innovation clusters and ecosystems
- Network organization for common goals and benefits
- Working for, in and with growth companies
- Identifying companies with growth potential
- Business models and scaling models
- From strategy to business model and further to operational tactics
- Analysis of growth strategies, business models and development phases
The course will use a combination of lectures, jointly organized research and participation in external innovation environments, and student presentations in groups and in class. During the course, students will identify and analyze growth companies with interesting potential using models and theories in the course and what they have learned from participation in the field.
Students must be prepared to spend some time on activities in incubators and the like, and are encouraged to participate in such activities in their free time and possibly through paid part-time engagements.
Higher Education Entrance Qualification
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
The course builds on knowledge that the student is expected to have acquired in previous semesters.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 100 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 4) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: Term paper. Students will individually or in groups of up to 3 students provide a theoretical task on a specified theme. The theme is chosen by the students. Exam code: ENT35131 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 36 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 80 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 24 Hour(s) | Student presentations and other student activities |
Examination | 60 Hour(s) | Assignment (project) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.
