ENT4360 – Student Venture Creation Project
Course description
Course content
The purpose of the course is to build your in-depth understanding and hands-on experience with developing a start-up project from scratch. Student groups operating as founding teams will try to develop a start-up project of their own choosing in collaboration with a local incubator. The course also functions as a live laboratory for topics covered in ENT4350 – Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing and ENT4340 – Managing New Venture Growth.
Learning outcome
After completing the course, you will:
- Have advanced knowledge and deep understanding of what it takes to be an start-up entrepreneur
- Have developed your proficiency and self-confidence in defining and managing an independent start-up project from incubation and onwards
- Have developed your proficiency in working as a start-up entrepreneur, both to manage and to exploit uncertainties, lack of resources and the freedom to set direction
- Be able to identify and attract interest from potential customers and to bootstrap the commercialization process to ensure necessary progress
- Be able to work as a member of a self-governed founding team
Admission to the course
This course is available only for students admitted to the study programme Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (master).
Recommended previous knowledge
- ENT4000 – Business Creation
- ENT4050 – Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership
- ENT4070 – Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation
- ENT4330 – Entrepreneurial Finance
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with ENT4220 – Norwegian Practical Start-up Experience (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with ENT4200 – Startups in Practice - Entrepreneurship.
Teaching
Project based work 3 days a week throughout the semester.
Each student group must qualify to enter presenting a proposition. Qualification criteria include quality of both an investor pitch and a project plan that includes clearly defined deliverables. Qualified groups will be given work space within an on-campus incubator, with access to resources such as mentoring, advice from other companies and ad-hoc events. Students in groups that do not qualify will work as interns in existing start-up companies.
Regular supervisory meetings with faculty.
Examination
The course grade depends on the following assignments:
- Group business plan and venture validation report including an oral group presentation accounting for in total 50% of the score. Students in the same group are given the same score. Group members who do not fulfill their obligations can be scored individually from the group.
- Project execution including ability to meet predefined final deliveries accounting for 20% of the overall score. Individual grading. Individual reflection report accounting for 30% of the overall score.
Failing a graded assignment does still allow participation in the remaining exams. All exams and assignments must be taken during the same semester.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
In this course, postponed exams are not offered for exam candidates who are ill before the exam or who become ill during the exam. A deferred submission deadline may be offered. Deadlines may be extended up to 7 days; the duration of the extension depends on the duration of the exam.?The illness must be documented with a doctor's certificate dated no later than the ordinary submission date. You must submit the doctor's certificate to the Student Administration at IFI before the submission deadline for the home exam.
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- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
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