NAT511: Science Innovation Project (2.5 ECTS)

STADS: 0002131

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: koss@sam.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
None

Course introduction

• Identify an idea that can be commercialized
• Describe two alternative strategies for this commercialization
• Describe the choices of customers, technology, identity and competetition associated with each strategy and the complementarities between choices
• Base the above descriptions on realistic assumptions. 

• Give the competence to identify several possible strategies for commercialization of an idea
• Give skills to analyse commercialization strategies and their constituent elements, including complementarities between their parts
• Give knowledge and understanding of pre-conditions and typical barriers to successful commercialization of ideas

Expected learning outcome

• Identify an idea that can be commercialized
• Describe two alternative strategies for this commercialization
• Describe the choices of customers, technology, identity and competetition associated with each strategy and the complementarities between choices
• Base the above descriptions on realistic assumptions
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Subject overview

• Entrepreneurial strategy, including
• The role of choice in the entrepreneurial process
• Value creation and value capture
• Choice of customers (incl. diffusion)
• Choice of technology (incl. technology curves)
• Choice of identity
• Choice of competition
• Generic strategies (incl. intellectual property, disruption, value chain and architecture)

Literature
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:


Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 10 hours
Skills training phase: 4 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 4 hours

Educational activities
Group work focused on idea identification and analysis.Educational form
The course begins with four two-hour lectures, where students are introduced to key concepts in entrepreneurial strategy, focusing on the choices related to the early-stage definition of how an idea (potentially, but not necessarily, based on natural science research or health science research) can be commercialized. 

A range of cases are presented to illustrate each element. Then, a two-hour lecture will feature presentations by science-based entrepreneurs (from professors through postdocs to students) of the ideas that their entrepreneurial ventures are based on and of the choices they made about commercialization. Then, two two-hour tutorials (with students divided into sub-groups of 40-50 students) follow. In the first of these, the students form groups and select and develop ideas to be worked on during the group work. In the second, the students will receive supervision in how their ideas can, in different ways, be commercialized. 

In the study phase, each group writes a three-page assignment. This assignment is presented and defended at an oral group exam (duration: 15 minutes)

Language
This course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
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