JSBP9140 Basics of Entrepreneurship (LITO) (5 cr)

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Study level:

Basic studies

Grading scale:

0-5

Language:

English, Finnish

Responsible organisation:

Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics

Curriculum periods:

2024-2025, 2025-2026

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Introduction to Entrepreneurship (LITO) is designed for students that are not majoring in business sciences.

Description

Deciding to become an entrepreneur
- An introduction to entrepreneurship
Creating viable business ideas
- Creating business opportunities
- Preliminary research
- Industry analysis
- Business plan
From an idea to an entrepreneurial firm
- Building a team
- Analysing start-up strengths and weaknesses from the funding perspective
- Ethical and legal issues when starting a company
- Creating a business plan and constructing a story
- Attracting funding
Managing an entrepreneurial firm and generating growth
- Marketing
- Understanding VC (Venture Capital) operations
- IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights)
- The challenges of growth and managing growth
- Growth strategies
- Forms of operation

Learning outcomes

During the course, students will learn to understand the significance of an entrepreneurial team and will form an understanding of entrepreneurship as a creative activity that occurs in the form of business. After completing the course, students will be able to:

define business-related principles, possibilities and challenges
plan business initiation based on customer needs, value creation, testing and agility
interpret business-related substance areas where competence is needed.

Additional information

All the course material is in English. If there is any group member who does not speak Finnish, the language of group work and assignments is English.

The latest information about the course is updated and published at www.lito.fi.

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Description of prerequisites

The course has no prerequisites.

Study materials

Material announced on the course.

Barringer, B. – Ireland. D. (2012) Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures. 4th edition. Prentice Hall. Later editions may also be used, but please note that the page numbers for the later versions vary.

Literature

Barringer, B. – Ireland, D. (2012) Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures. 4th Edition. Prentice Hall.

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:

Online course. The course includes a compulsory preliminary assignment that has to be completed successfully by a pre-defined date. The instructions for the pre-assignment are given to the students who have registered for the course within the registration period. Course assignments include reading the course book, and learning and reflection assignments. Students complete the assignments on the online learning platform individually and as groupwork.

Evaluation criteria:

Approved performance required in the course. The evaluation criteria are specified in the syllabus. Students are graded on a scale from 1 to 5. The course consists of five modules. Each module is linked to two chapters in the course book, and there are related assignments to be completed by the end of each module. They are evaluated as pass/fail. To pass the course, students must receive a passing grade for all the assignments. A final essay, composed as group work and submitted at the end of the course, covering the entire course content, determines the final grade.

Time of teaching:

Period 1, Period 2

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Parts of the completion methods

Independent study (5 cr)

Type:

Independent study

Grading scale:

0-5

Language:

Finnish

Teaching

9/19–12/2/2024 Online teaching

Enrolment period:

8/9/2024 12:00 AM–9/5/2024 11:59 PM

Type:

Online teaching

Language:

English

Responsible organisation:

Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics

Additional information:

LITO courses are organised in co-operation with multiple universities. To receive credits for the courses, students must be granted the right to attend the courses for which they have registered from the host university.

To grant the right to attend a course (or courses), the home university will transfer personal student information to the host university responsible for organising the course. The data to be transferred includes the student’s surname, first name, possible middle name(s), gender, nationality, e-mail address, personal identification number and home university. If a student does not have a Finnish personal identification number, his/her date of birth will be transferred. Data classified as secret will not be transferred. Receiving credit for the course(s) is not possible without transferring personal student information. LITO Data Protection Notification is available at www.lito.fi.

Students must register for the courses before they begin them. Registration takes place at the student's home university during a pre-defined registration period, which may differ from the customary course registration periods applied at the home university. Students are advised to check the registration periods for the LITO courses they plan to take and abide by the deadlines. Proper registration for a course is obligatory and required in order to receive course credits. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The LITO courses cannot be included in the Finnish Bachelor or Master of Business and Economic Sciences degrees. The content and learning goals of the LITO courses have been designed for students not majoring in business sciences. Hence, the content and subject matter of the courses differ from the basic studies in the Finnish bachelor's and master's degrees in Business and Economic Sciences and cannot substitute for the basic studies included in these degrees.

The latest information about the course is updated and published on the course platform at www.lito.fi.