EUTOPIA Learning Unit - Technological Business Development Project

3 ECTS credits
84 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4015734ENR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester

1st and 2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Alvorens men een inschrijving kan nemen voor Technological Business Development Project moet men geslaagd zijn voor, of op zijn minst ingeschreven zijn voor 'Inleiding tot het bedrijfsbeheer'. Before students can enroll for 'Technological Business Development Project' they need to have succesfully completed the course 'Introduction to Business' or at least have an enrollment for 'Introduction to Business'.

Taught in

English

Faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool

Department

Business Technology and Operations

Educational team

Thomas Crispeels (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
71 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course is destined for students business engineering and 'technology engineering': bio-engineer, civil engineering, computer sciences. The students contribute to a concrete 'technological business development project', often emanating from the research labs of the university and ideally work in interdisciplinary groups of two to five students. The researchers of these labs are then involved in the coaching of the students. In the beginning of the first semester we hold a matchmaking event between students and projects.

The work that students will perform depends on the project: opportunity studies, market- and competitive analysis, financial and costing analysis, writing parts of business plan etc. The exact scope of each project is defined in collaboration with the relevant research group and the educational team in the beginning of the first semester.

We implement a structured process to coach the students, including regular plenary sessions (interim sessions) where the different groups present their advances to their colleagues. By the end of the course, the students present a final report to the coaching group.

Additional info

The course is only accessible after agreement of the course titular.

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

This course teaches students to:

provide an independant contribution to the preparation or development of a business strategy. He/she can analyze a problem critically, not blindly applying existing recepies.
integrate his/her technological and IT insights into the managerial and functional domains of an enterprize (marketing, human resources, finance...)
be able to adequately present verbally and in writing his/her findings and translate these into implications for the business
be able to start up an enterprize individually or in team
anticipate on changes in the business environment and in the company structure and can formulate if needed proposed solutions
be able to clarify the nature of business problems to colleagues and stimulate them to think along and to formulate solutions
communicate well with all departments of the enterprize, especially with those in charge of technological decisions, so that he/she can make decisions with sufficient knowledge

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Practical Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 30% of the final mark.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Presentation final report with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

Note: Practical arrangement in agreement with students

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Execution of the project with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Note: Permanent evaluation by educational team, parameters clearly communicated at beginning of the course.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students are judged on the quality of their activities during the year, on their final report and the presentation of this final report.

Interim sessions can be mandatory.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context