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86496 Entrepreneurship and Company Start-up
Danish title: Virksomhedsstart
Language: Danish Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: C8396, 83496
No credit points with: C8396, 83496
Prerequisite: 83472, 83172, 86172, 83175, 80175
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Scope and form: 2 lecture modules per week. Group work, private study.
Examination: Evaluation of report (13-scale)
Participant limitation: max. 100

Contact person: Torben Leinsdorff, Building 421, Tel. +45 4525 6113, email tl@tem.dtu.dk
John Heebøll, email jh@innovation.dk

Department: Technology, Economics and Management
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.