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Course Catalog 01/02


Business Adm and Social Science

IEO009 Entrepreneurship and new firms formation 15.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q1-Q2, Q3-Q4

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
TorBjörn Nilsson Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES
To be admitted to the course the students must have passed the first two years of either the program in engineering, business administration or systems analysis. Besides this students must form groups during the course containing persons from at least two of the programs mentioned. The groups may not consist of more than three persons.

The prerequisites will thereby both be formed individually by the demands of passed education and collectively by the knowledge the persons in the group will have.

COURSE AIM
To give the student knowledge about:
- how to start and form new firms
- the establishing- and starting processe for new firms
- how to work in a project-organization where complex problems will be solved

CONTENTS
The course covers the establishing- and starting process for new firms. It will integrate the different competences in the group in order to make businessplans and form new firms. The course will by that illustrate the complex problems (technical, economical and other problems), which are associated with formation of new firms.

TEACHING
Lectures and laboratory work

EXAMINATION
To pass the course students must pass a written test and also produce a businessplan.
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, 3, 4, 5

ITEMS/CREDITS

Laboratory exam 10.50ECTS
Written exam 4.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Erhardsson, R F, Tovman, P, Affärsplan, Industrilitteratur, Göteborg, 1995.
Kuratko, P.F., Hodgelts, K.M., Entrepreneurship a contemporary approach, The Dryden Press, 1998
In addition to the literature mentioned above the students must choose literature together with the teacher in charge.
Literature can be changed.

REMARKS


Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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