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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND VENTURE CAPITAL Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
In order to successfully attend the classes, basics of managements and economics are required.
Objectives Contents Combining case studies and traditional lectures, the course examines the challenges of starting new ventures and it illustrates how venture capital can help entrepreneurial initiatives.
Extended Syllabus This part of the course is focused on the recognition and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. Regarding the recognition of entrepreneurial opportunity, the course introduces useful tools for entrepreneurs or potential entrepreneurs to identify and evaluate new opportunities. As regards the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunity, it analyzes the main tools for protecting business ideas and discusses the new ventures' business models.
Being an entrerpreneur. The second part of the course focuses on the entrerpreneur with a specific focus on the entrerpreneurs' personality traits.
The third part of the course focuses on financing new businesses by analyzing traditional forms of financing and analyzing the most innovative forms such as crowdfunding and initial coin offering (ICO)
Recommended Bibliography Attending students: project work and case studies distributed in class + selected chapters from Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, T. Byers, R. Dorf, A. Nelson, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company (PARTI:I; II; III;IV)
Methods of Provision Teaching Methods The course is articulates in sessions. Each session is articulated in three classes. During each class, the teacher shall provide an overview of the topic using traditional lectures, case studies, seminars and students’ presentations.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
For attending students: 10% case discussion. The goal is to evaluate students’ public speaking abilities and to facilitate students’ ongoing self-assessment and learning progresses. 20% project work. The project work consists in a 10 pages business report in which students are called to solve a business problem presented by the teacher in collaboration with a local start-up. The goal is to evaluate students’ "know how" and their ability to solve real business problems; 70% Final exam composed by open questions.
