Status: Open for registration

Course description
The course comprises these main elements:

• Entrepreneurship in various contexts and situations.
• Evaluation of the potential of new ideas and developing growth projects.
• Marketing and sales of new and different ideas.
• Protection of ideas (intellectual property rights).
• Innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: the various kinds of actors, organisations and resources available for promoting the benefits of research.
• Examples of successful and failed firms.
• Coaching of teams to support idea development and the drawing up of ‟business plans”: each team meets with an experienced coach for a minimum of two one-hour sessions during the course.
• Presentation of the ‟business plan” (for commercialization/exploitation) of an idea.

Course aim
At the end of this course, participants shall be able to:

• Discuss and reflect on the meaning of entrepreneurship in various settings and situations.
• Formulate, develop, and present a business idea for a new firm, organisation, process, or project.
• Co-operate with colleagues in other disciplines and fields of research during idea development.
• Understand how an entrepreneurial approach contributes to the development of ‟me” as a researcher and teacher.
• Further instructions will be sent upon application.
• The course is limited to 20 participants.
• Course acceptance is based on equal opportunity for all applicants; the course recognises the benefits that students with different backgrounds, life situations, and competences offer.

Owner: Magnus Klofsten, e-mail: magnus.klofsten@liu.se