040690 FK KFK PÖ: High-Profile Employees, Spin-Offs and Entrepreneurship (2008W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 01.09.2008 09:00 to Su 21.09.2008 23:59
- Registration is open from Fr 26.09.2008 09:00 to Mo 29.09.2008 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 14.10.2008 23:59
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max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Wednesday 01.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 08.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 15.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 22.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 29.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 05.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 12.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 19.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 26.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 03.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 10.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 17.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 07.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 14.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 21.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
- Wednesday 28.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal 11
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Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
The course comprises theoretical insights into the entrepreneurial issues at hand and combines these with practical applications. Hence, a case study (Facebook) will complement the course work and students will work in groups on this case assignment throughout the sessions.
Reading list
William Bygrave and Andrew Zacharakis: Entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.Jeffry Timmons and Steve Spinelli: New Venture Creation, McGraw - Hill, 2003
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Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:29
1. Introductory Meeting2. Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
- What is Entrepreneurship and what do Entrepreneurs do?
- Risk and Entrepreneurial Opportunities - Where does entrepreneurship come from?3. Discovering Opportunities and Strategic Risk Taking
- Stages of the entrepreneurial process
- How to recognize and develop business ideas
- How can value be created and captured?4. Becoming an Entrepreneur
- Who is becoming an entrepreneur - Lazear Model, Behavioral Theories
- What are the factors impacting the decision to become an entrepreneur
- Does it pay off to become self-employed? - Returns to entrepreneurship.5. Building the founder team
- What are the team characteristics?
- How to build your team? - Team Production
- What other ties might matter when founding a firm?- Basics of Social Networks6. Start-Up Types and Franchising
- What different types of Start-Ups exist?
- How does franchising work?
- What are the challengers of franchising for the entrepreneur (and the franchising firm)7. Corporate Entrepreneurship and Spin-Offs
- How can entrepreneurship be fostered inside firms?
- How can corporate entrepreneurship be formally organized - Spin-Offs
- What are the limits to corporate innovations and entrepreneurship? - Acquisitions8. The Business Plan
- What components does the business plan comprise?
- Understand the role of intellectual property rights and patents. How might the business idea and/or technology be safeguarded against competitors to ensure value appropriation?
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9. Financial Analysis of Business Ideas
- Value Drivers and Financial Ratios - Difference between Cash Flow and Profit
- Understand and evaluate the basics of strategies for new ventures and/or technologies10. Entrepreneurial Financing
- What types of financing are available?
- Where to obtain financing from? - Venture Capital, Business Angels, Bank financing
- What are the advantages and disadvantages with each financing alternative?11. Questions and Answers: Case Study Analysis Facebook