Entrepreneurship

Course description

Learning Outcomes: Student is able to

• understand entrepreneurship through personal development
• find and utilize different customer oriented business opportunities.

Content:

• Understanding entrepreneurship as a career option vs. employment.
• Prerequisites and requirements for entrepreneurship.
• Testing and analyzing one’s own entrepreneurial qualities.
• Prerequisites for starting a company: the path from innovation into a business idea.
• Planning the practical steps for starting a company, such as – conditions for profitability – identifying risks and managing them – choosing the appropriate legal form – practical measures – increasing awareness through marketing

Assessment criteria

Approved/Failed

Course way of working and time table

This course implementation will be entirely online. You can Hop On at any time during the course and proceed at your own pace.

There is no exam for this course. Instead, it contains online assignments forming a two (2) credits set. The assignments will be done individually and returned to the Moodle platform. They are evaluated once a month. When you return an assignment by the end of the month, it will be reviewed by the 15th of the next month (excluding holidays).

Course additional info

The course is suitable for everyone, regardless of previous studies and experience.

Course enrolment info

Students of the other UAS (Degree students and Open Studies’ path students):

Enroll for the course in your home university’s Peppi/PAKKI via cross-institutional studies(RIPA).

For more information, please check your own university’s intranet or contact your student office.