The objective of this course is to enable students to create opportunities based on their academic and professional skills and knowledge. Employing methods from entrepreneurship and innovation, students learn how to initiate value creating projects and products. The overall understanding of entrepreneurship in this course is much broader than merely establishment of new companies. Based on well-founded theories we see entrepreneurship as a method (Venkataraman & Sarasvathy 2011). Thus the theoretical underpinning of the method can be investigated and the method can be learned through the course components, which are: a) theoretical introduction, b) training, c) application and d) reflection. The course inspires students to an entrepreneurial and innovative approach in many settings such as their primary study programme, research, clinical practice, the industry and of course also start-ups. The entrepreneurial process holds four major elements:Understanding your own means %E2%80" who are you, what do know and whom do you know? (Sarasvathy 2001, 2008)Finding problems and creating opportunities (Spinoza, Flores and Dreyfuss 1997, Alvarez and Barney 2006)Qualifying products and creating a business model (Osterwalder and Pigneur 2010)Realizing value and pitching to relevant stakeholders (Wilmot and Carlson 2006)After the course, the students must be able to:Explain and compare the presented entrepreneurship and innovation theoriesExplain the core components in the entrepreneurial process and use this knowledge to reflect upon the process that he/she has gone through during the courseDescribe and reflect upon relevant personal and professional competences and preferences in an entrepreneurial team including networkIdentify, describe and scope relevant problems (or disclose disharmonies) in everyday practices in a medical settingApply methods to find out if the problem or disharmony is widely accepted as a problemIdentify and qualify an opportunity through an innovation processPrepare a preliminary business model and be able to discuss the pros and cons of different types of business modelsPresent an opportunity to stakeholders

Course leader
Teacher: Linda Greve: http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/greve@au.dk

Target group
Master's level.Students holding a relevant Bachelor's degree.

Fee info
EUR 200: Price: Students holding a preapproval including exchange students do not pay for the course.ONLY Free-mover students and Tomplads students MUST pay for the course: Danish and EU/ES (tomplads): 200 EURNON-EU-ES students (free-mover): 1050 EURBooks, course materials, social programme, and housing are not included in the tuition fee. Also be aware of course specific expenses mentioned in the description.

Scholarships
No scholarships available.

Aarhus University
Address: International Centre, H%C3%B8egh Guldbergsgade 4-6
Postal code: 8000
City: Aarhus
Country: Denmark
Website: www.au.dk/summeruniversity
E-mail: dfs@au.dk
Phone: +4551335274