Learning Results
To present the general problems in entrepreneurship and innovation in the light of: a) economic factor of
development; and b) management activity of strategic nature.
Draw the attention of students to entrepreneurship, underlining the conditions for start-ups to succeed, namely
regarding the planning of the new business and products, preparing the business plan, the funding options and
the future management.
Skills to be acquired:
To understand the innovation process and the multiplicity of factors determining it;
To make the Business Plan for a new firm in the area of information technology and communications;
Program
What is innovation.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Creativity and ideas generation.
The Business Plan.
Funding a new business.
Managing the new business.
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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