Corporate Entrepreneurship

2019/2020

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

  • Gain theoretical insight into high impact innovation concepts such as corporate entrepreneurship, disruptive innovation, breakthrough/radical innovation/innovation.
  • Understand the role and impact of corporate entrepreurship/(radical) innovation in organisations.
  • Understanding high-impact innovation processes and how to organize them in and around companies

Skills

  • Be able to identify and analyse challenges of corporate entrepreneurship/innovation in organizations.
  • Be able to choose and use relevant theories, methods, and tools.

Competences

  • Be able to audit, evaluate and contribute to design of the innovative capabilities of an established organisation.
  • Be able to better navigate in contexts of corporate entrepreneurship/(radical) innovation given the complexity, politics and emergent nature of the processes.
  • Ability to develop conceptual solutions to the challenges faced by established organisations when attempting to organise corporate entrepreneurship/(radical) innovation.

Type of instruction

The teaching is organized in accordance with the general form of teaching. Please see the programme cirruculum ยง17.

Extent and expected workload

Since it is a 5 ECTS course module the expected workload is 150 hours for the student.

Exam

Exams

Name of examCorporate Entrepreneurship
Type of exam
Written or oral exam
ECTS5
Assessment7-point grading scale
Type of gradingInternal examination
Criteria of assessmentThe criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination Policies and Procedures

Facts about the module

Danish titleInnovationsledelse og forretningsudvikling
Module codeM-EE-K2-2
Module typeCourse
Duration1 semester
SemesterSpring
ECTS5
Language of instructionEnglish
Empty-place SchemeYes
Location of the lectureCampus Aalborg
Responsible for the module

Organisation

Study BoardStudy Board of Mechanical Engineering and Physics
DepartmentDepartment of Materials and Production
FacultyFaculty of Engineering and Science