Duration
20h Th, 100h Pr
Number of credits
| Advanced Master in Entrepreneurship (Specialised master in entrepreneurship) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course allows students to understand the steps in the development of a business plan. The main optics of the course will focus on projects to create new businesses or spin-offs of existing companies.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
As a result of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the springs of the entrepreneurial process.
2. Understand the foundations of a promising project and, in particular, the factors that distinguish an idea of an opportunity.
3. Master the key success factors to achieve a professional business plan.
4. Understanding the mechanisms that influence the investment decisions of actors in risk capital.
5. Familiarize teamwork
According to the Key Learning Outcomes, these objectives mainly contribute to the development of capacities from ILO's 1 to 13 of the master's in management sciences, with a specialisation.
- ILO-1 : To strengthen knowledge and understanding of management disciplines and its legal, policy and social context
- ILO-2 : Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the proposed fields of concentration or to gain deep knowledge in the field of the management being already specialized thru a first University Master Degree .
- ILO-3 : To understand, in management situations, the transversal tools of quantitative reasoning, information systems and project management
- ILO-4 : To acquire the capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem,
- ILO-5 : Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems, whether real or simulated, taking into account, when necessary, the human, social and legal context.
- ILO-6 : Ability to speak 2 foreign languages: C1 in English and B2 in one other language.
- ILO-9 : Developing a critical sense (arguing)
- ILO-10 : Developing a transversal, global vision
- ILO-11 : Creative conception of solutions
- ILO-12 : Professional capacity for oral communication
- ILO-13 : Professional capacity for written communication
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Admission to the program HEC-ULg Entrepreneurs
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The activities are organised as follows:
1. An introductory seminar on entrepreneurial communication
2. Doing the actual assignment, individually, with the help of the mentor; this mentor is a professional in the field of the assignment and supports the student during the assignment.
3. thematic conferences.
4. Elaborating and handing in the business plan.
5. Participation in coaching sessions.
6. presentation and defense of the business plan in financial terms over the past financial panel (Financial jury).
7. Presentation and defence of the entire business plan to an entrepreneurial panel (final panel).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
- Seminars with group discussions.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Recommended reading:
Entreprendre, Une introduction à l'entrepreneuriat de F Janssen
Preparing effective business plan Edition Prentice Hall
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Additional information:
Oral exam
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The programme's ROI applies strictly to this course.
Check schedule of HEC-ULg Entrepreneurs program
Contacts
Teacher : B. Sulemont b.surlemont@uliege.be
Assistant:c.gerkens@uliege.be