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MRK3025

Innovation and Business Development

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Spring 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Assignment

About

About the course

Course content

Course outline

  • Theoretical perspectives on innovation processes and entrepreneurship
  • Business development and entrepreneurial decision making
  • Resource and growth strategies
  • Organization and governance practices for entrepreneurial firms
  • Environments for entrepreneurship and innovation (incubators, innovation systems, etc.)

Learning outcome

Knowledge: Students should understand and reflect on

  • different theoretical approaches to innovative and entrepreneurial processes in new and established organizations
  • current organizational and governance practices for innovation and entrepreneurship

Skills: Students

  • develop a competence on how to formulate and organize new economic projects, by constituting new entrepreneurial firms or within established organizational units
  • will improve the capacity of effective and innovative decision-making under uncertainty and business development
  • should expand their understanding of how to infuse entrepreneurship and innovation within existing environments

General competence

  • Students have a competence in organizing innovation and entrepreneurship

Learning methods and activities

During this course there will be a combination of lectures, cases, group activities, and assignments.

Compulsory assignments

  • Innlevering av prosjektskisse

Further on evaluation

The course evaluation is two-fold.

First, compulsory group assignments are to be delivered and approved during the semester before (second) the final term paper is submitted. The number and content of the group assignments and their deadlines will be announced in the beginning of the semester.

The term paper counts 100 % of the course evaluation, and has to be written by a group of students. As this (final) term paper is based on the approved compulsory group assignments, it has to be submitted by the same group members.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Business Administration (BØA)
Business Administration (BØAT)
Economics and Business Administration (MSIVØK5)
Miscellaneous Courses - Faculty of Economics and Management (EMNE/ØK)

Course materials

A list of compulsory readings will be provided at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
IN232 6 sp
INT3010 7.5 sp
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Economics and Administration

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

NTNU Business School