Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Students will be provided with theoretical knowledge about innovation, entrepreneurship, and small businesses. Students will learn to cooperate practically with case companies and/or case organisations.

Introduction to entrepreneurship

Contributions of entrepreneurial firms

Entrepreneurship ¿ conceptual approaches

Types of Entrepreneurs / Types of Organizations

Introduction to innovation

Reasons to innovate

Value-driven (service) innovation 

Implementation of innovation

The entrepreneurial process and innovation

Exploration and Exploitation of opportunities

Entrepreneurship as firm Behaviour

Basics on Business Models and The logic of effectuation

International and cross border entrepreneurship

Aspects of cross border entrepreneurship in the Barents region; Internationalisation strategies and

Impact of cultures

Nordic applicants: Generell studiekompetanse

International applicants: Higher Education Entrance Qualification and certified language requirements in English.

A list of the requirements for the Higher Education Entrance Qualification in Norway can be found on the web site from the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT). For language requirements we refer to
NOKUT's GSU-list.

Admission code: 9199 (Nordic applicants).

Knowledge:

• will be familiar with central approaches and theories to understanding innovation as a core concept of entrepreneurship in general and cross border entrepreneurship in particular

Skills:

• will be able to apply theoretical concepts to understand and analyze processes of innovation and entrepreneurship in practice; will be able to self-assess his or her practical case study efforts

Competence:

• will appreciate the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship and can conduct teamwork based case work

The lectures are organised in blocks.

For a week-long workshop, teaching could take place in other countries (Russia, Finland)

Methods are lectures, team work, paper writing, presentations, idea creation and communication with representatives of case organisations

Language of instruction and examination

Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 June for the autumn semester and 1 December for the spring semester.

Applicants from outside the Nordic countries: 1 October for the spring semester and 15 April for the autumn semester.

The students academic performance will be assessed both through:

A formative evaluation:
- Project and teamwork participation, I.e. attendance is mandatory (at least 80% of class) work paper.
- Project work-based written papers
- Written case work evaluations.

And a summative evaluation:
- Final term paper, 10 pages.

Final term paper is graded A-F.
Possibility for resit exam in case of F.