• Entrepreneurship (ZZPP0750-3122),
         16.01.2023 – 19.05.2023,  3 cr — Online learning +-
    Learning outcomes of the course
    Purpose of the course:
    During this course, you will acquire basic knowledge of entrepreneurship and profitable business in action-driven ways. You will assess your own entrepreneurial capabilities and expand your understanding of the sector with the help of company stories, for example. During the course, you will work in a multidisciplinary team in which you will develop a business idea.

    Course competences:
    Internationalisation and communications competence
    Learning and information management competence
    Entrepreneurship, innovation and working community competence

    Course learning outcomes:
    1. You recognise and are able to assess your own capabilities and attitudes concerning entrepreneurship.
    2. You know the concept of internal entrepreneurship, what it means to become an entrepreneur and the significance of entrepreneurship and innovations in society.
    3. You understand the preconditions of profitable business.
    4. You understand and recognise the role of customer relationship in business and are able to apply this knowledge.
    5. You demonstrate an ability for self-management in an entrepreneurial way in a multidisciplinary team.
    6. You identify the customers’ needs and find business opportunities in them.
    7. You are familiar with and capable of utilising the JAMK and EduFutura entrepreneurship and innovation environments and the related support services.
    Course contents
    You recognise the skills of your own internal entrepreneurship and use them to develop the course business idea.

    Based on your experience, observations and the knowledge you have acquired, you form a conception of market needs or demand in response to which you develop your own turnkey solution/business concept (service/product concept).

    You act in a multidisciplinary small group in which you reflect upon and assess the business opportunities of the idea and share their opportunities for success with other students in the course. The ideas are tested with potential customers and further developed on the basis of the feedback received.

    The development and communication tools used in the assessment and development of the ideas include the Business Model Canvas and the Value Proposition Canvas.
    Assessment criteria
    Assessment criteria, passed/failed
    You recognise the features of your own inner entrepreneurship and utilise them in the development of a business idea and demonstrate an ability for self-management in an entrepreneurial way in a multidisciplinary team.

    You understand the role of entrepreneurship in society and in your own sector. You understand the principles of profitable business.

    In customer situations or services, you identify needs in response to which you develop a business idea together with your multidisciplinary team.

    You understand the role of customers in the development of business ideas and the principles of value creation.

    Language of instruction

    Finnish

    Location and time

    28.09.2020 09.45 - 11.15 Webinar
    19.10.2020 09.45 - 11.15 Webinar
    05.11.2020 12.15 - 13.45 Webinar
    18.11.2020 12.15 - 13.45 Webinar
    02.12.2020 08.45 - 11.15 Webinar

    Planned learning activities, teaching methods and guidance

    -Flipped learning
    -Project learning

    Your studies include workshop work, group work, independent work, coaching and expert lectures. The study and teaching will cooperate with the companies and entrepreneurship partners/networks in the region (e.g. Jyväskylä Business Factory, JES, EduFutura). The most important part of learning is Your own activities and self-assessment. For meetings (such as lectures, group work) you will always be prepared. The course supports a learning culture where you learn as an individual and in groups to face and deal with uncertainty and failure with the support of the instructors, and to strengthen risk-taking, courage and decision-making capacity, and the readiness to put matters into practice and goal-orientedly. You work in a small group where you create a business idea. You assess the business potential and customer value of the idea.

    Learning materials and recommended literature

    Blank,Dorf: The Startup Owner's Manual
    Osterwalder&al.: Value Proposition Design
    Osterwalder&Pigneur: Business Model Generation

    Lecturer(s)

    Vesa Kuhanen, Heidi Hämäläinen-Laitinen, Hanna-Riikka Kantelinen, Suvi Salminen

    Working life cooperation

    -

    Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

    -There are no exams in the course.

    Timing

    16.01.2023 - 19.05.2023

    Learning assignments and student workload

    1. Own entrepreneurial features (15%)
    2. Active participation in teamwork, business idea development (70%)
    3. Descriptions of activities, presentation s of results and outputs (e.g. presentation of a business idea) and evaluations of own and group activities (15 %)

    Webinars and guidance 20h, independent work 20h and teamwork 41h

    Enrollment

    01.11.2022 - 05.01.2023

    Alternative learning methods

    -

    Seats

    0 - 50

    Assessment methods

    Open Studies 14

    Degree Programme

    Bachelor's Degree Programme in Music Pedagogue, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Logistics, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Occupational Therapy, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Rehabilitation Counselling, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Construction and Civil Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Service Business, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Technology, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Electrical and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Team Academy, Degree Programme in Midwifery, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Social Services, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Business Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Business Management, Degree Programme in Nursing, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Agricultural and Rural Industries, Bachelor's Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

    Mode of delivery

    Online learning

    Share of R&D studies

    3 cr

    Share of virtual studies

    3 cr

    Credits
    • 3 cr
    Unit

    School of Business