Entrepreneurship in Social and Health Care Services (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

The student recognises the business opportunities in the health and wellness sector arising from the reform of social and health care services. The student masters the basic concepts of wellness entrepreneurship and recognises various operating logics in wellness entrepreneurship. The student masters the basic business planning and earning logic of a start-up business. The student has tools at his/her disposal that can be used for assessing the feasibility of a business idea.

Content

- The reform of social and health care services and its effects on business in the wellness sector.
- Business in the wellness sector and forms of entrepreneurship in the student’s own field.
- Planning the operating concept of the business to be set up.
- Description of the industry sector and surveying of the competitive situation.
- Evaluation of the business idea.

Materials

- Haapa-aho, M. 2014. Hyvinvointialan yrittäjyys. Näkemyksiä hyvinvointialan yrittäjyyden tulevaisuudesta. Metropolia ammattikorkeakoulu. (viitattu 14.3.2017) http://hyrrat.metropolia.fi/?page_id=23
- Kostiainen, H. 2020. Yhteiskunnalliset yritykset Suomessa. http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/162094
- Tevameri, T. 2020. Missä mennään sote-toimiala? : Sosiaali- ja terveysalan toimialaraportti. https://tem.fi/julkaisu?pubid=URN:ISBN:978-952-327-480-8

Teaching methods

The starting point of the study module is to combine problem-based learning (PBL) and desing thinking. Learning utilizes situations and problems arising from practice for theoretical consideration. Solution presentations utilize design thinking method.

Working methods:
contact and distance learning
workshop
coaching

Completion alternatives

Studification is an alternative method for course implementation according to JAMK degree regulations.

Student workload

pre-assignment and preparation 10 h
lectures and workshops 20 h
peer-evaluation 10 h
virtual learnin 45 h
independent work 50 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Pass (S)
The student masters the basics of entrepreneurship in the social services and health care sector and the operating logic of entrepreneurship. The student recognises the client-oriented, sustainable and financially profitable mechanisms of entrepreneurship. The student recognises the opportunities for entrepreneurship offered by the social welfare and health care reform.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree

Further information

Open university 10 places

The course is implemented through project based learning, in which the lectures, group work and independent work complement each other. Assessment methods include direct feedback from the supervisor, self- and peer review and final feedback.