Entrepreneurship Boot Camp (6 ECTS, 36 hours, one week intensive seminar)
Professor:
Telephone:
E-mail:
Frédéric Delmar, PhD
+33 (0)4 78 33 70 18/+46 8 665 45 32 delmar@em-lyon.com Office hours:
Assistant:
Friday, 9:00 – 12:00, or by appointment
Elisabeth Gelas (gelas@em-lyon.com)
Class Meetings
Monday to Friday 08:30 am – 05.30pm
Saturday 08:30 am – 12:00 am
September, 5th September 10th, 2011
Course Materials:
Textbook and a set of cases at the beginning of the program. Supplementary materials will be distributed by instructor in class. Please check to see if your case material is complete.
Textbook:
Timmons, J.A. & Spinnelli, S.Jr (2009). New Venture Creation:
Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century. McGraw Hill International Edition
(8th ed.). ISBN: 978-007-127632-0
Course Description
The purpose of this intensive one week boot camp in entrepreneurship is to understand and explain how entrepreneurship emerges and evolves in the economy. Specifically, we want to follow the entrepreneurial process: from the identification and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities through the creation of new ventures (either independent or part of existing firms). This means the foci of the course are the identification of the entrepreneurial opportunity, the interactions among the entrepreneurial team, the idea and the environment. We define entrepreneurship as the process of how, by whom, and with what consequences opportunities to discover future products and services are identified, evaluated and exploited.
The main questions are how entrepreneurship develops in the economy and how we can understand this process from different perspectives. The consequences for entrepreneurs themselves are discussed as well as practice, and economic policy targeted to foster entrepreneurship in these early phases. Content
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The entrepreneurial process is a function of the society (culture,