From Business Idea to Business Plan (7cr)
Course unit code: ZZBZ0120
General information
- Credits
- 7 cr
- Teaching language
- Finnish
Objective
The students are able to create a business plan and/or understand the significance of internal entrepreneurship. They are able to produce the charters of foundation for a company.
Content
The students perform a test to measure their competences with regard to entrepreneurship. Based on this analysis, each student, assisted by the supervisor, will devise a personal learning and development plan.
The starting points for business activity; business activity as a whole. Elements of business planning: business idea, product development, marketing, launching business activities, personnel management, management, globalisation, internationalisation. The main tools of business planning (the identification of a business idea, business plan, financial calculations, profit simulations etc.), company forms and the factors affecting their choice, and the documents and official procedures related to the establishment of a company. The target for development can be one's own enterprise, someone else's enterprise, or a future enterprise for which the student makes a business plan or other development plan under expert guidance.
Qualifications
Basics concepts of entrepreneurship, interest in starting a business of one's own or in the development of business activity
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
Business plan / development plan for internal entrepreneurship; assessment methods and/or criteria: teacher's and peer assessment, business plan reporting skills.
Targets of assessment: business idea, structure, content, financial calculations