Entrepreneurship

Code:

GES600

Acronym:

GES600

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Physics and Astronomy
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Program in Physics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDF	12	PE Programa Doutoramento em Física	1	-	3	18	81

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

To investigate the concepts, tools, and practices of entrepreneurship and to identify and exercise entrepreneurial skills through assignments:

- Have a better understanding of student's personal entrepreneurial capacity

- Identifying new venture opportunities

- Evaluating the viability of a new venture

- Writing a business plan that will be ready for investor review,

- Understanding which skills are necessary for success and building a team that possesses those attributes

- Financing, starting, and operating a business

Learning outcomes and competences

Understanding the entrepreneurship process

- Know how to appraise business ideas

- Know the different business issues needed to create an organization

- Know how to do a business plan, with the operational, marketing, strategic and financial plans

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

None

Program

Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur
Innovation Management
Technology Management
Generation of new ideas
Business opportunity
Competitive Analysis
Analysis of business opportunities
Protection of intellectual property
Marketing
Financial Planning
Leadership
Execution of the plan of business

Mandatory literature

Arnal Losilla, J. C ; Creación de Empresas: Los Mejores Textos, 2003
Bessant, J. e Tidd, ; Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons., 2007
Kaplan, J. M. ; Patterns of Entrepreneurship., John Wiley & Sons, 2003
Timmons, J. A. e Stephen S; New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century, 6th edition, McGraw Hill-Irwin., 2003
Sarkar, S; Empreendedorismo e Inovação., Lisboa: Escolar-Editora, 2007

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course wants to give the students the tools to create a business, so there will be classes where the theoretical issues will be discussed, but the main centre will be working in simulations and concrete, applied situations, with a very active role from students.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	38,00
Frequência das aulas	18,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

N/A

Calculation formula of final grade

A paper about entrepreneurial activities (40% of the final grade) PE (0-20)

- A business plan (60% of the final grade)                                     BP (0,20)

Final Grade 0,4*PE+0,6*BP

Classification improvement

N/A

Observations

Curricular unit lectured in U. Aveiro by António Carrizo Moreira.

This is a cpy of the course description in U. Aveiro

https://www.ua.pt/pt/uc/4107