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42435 Entrepreneurship and Company Start-up
Danish title: Virksomhedsstart
Language:  Danish    ECTS-creditpoints:  5, External examination.   
Type:  , open university
Class schedule:   E5
Exam schedule:   No exam
Recommended semester:  4th -7th semester
Scope and form:  2 lecture modules per week. Group work, private study.
Evaluation:  Approval of coursework/reports
Examination:  13-scale
Previous course:  86496, 83496
Prerequisites:  42410(83472, 83172, 86172), 42415(83175, 80175)
No credit points with:  86496, 83496
Participant limitation:  Max. 100
Aim:  To enable the students to develop and analyse a business idea based on their knowledge within a number of relevant techincal, legal and economic fields.
Contents:  The course comprises lectures within a wide array of subjects. Headlines for these are:
- Entrepreneurship
- The business objectives
- Product development
- Patents and licenses
- Business planning
- Marketing / Market economy
- Production on type of business (legal)
- Economic analysis
- Financing the company start-up
- Hiring / Firing (legal aspects)

Parallel with the course the students in groups of 4-6 have to work out a business plan for a specific product idea. At the end of the course the business plan has to be presented orally to the coordinator of the course and the censor.
Contact:  Torben Leinsdorff, building 421, (+45) 4525 6113, tl@tem.dtu.dk
Department: 042 Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management
Keywords:  Entrepreneurship, company start-up, business plan, commercialization
Updated:  22-03-2001