Entrepreneurship and Business Development I

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management

Instructor(s)

Shintaro Sengoku

Class Format

Lecture/Exercise (HyFlex)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

3-4 Sat

Class

-

Course Code

TIM.D516

Number of credits

0.50.50

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Terminologies "Business development" and "entrepreneurship" can be defined as a comprehensive process and human activities to realise business opportunities, respectively. These factors are critical and complimentary eith each other thus are highly required for all professionals who aim to create a novel value in the society. This posture is not limited only to business venturing but is also broadly extended towards scientific research and technology development.
The present lecture series consists of lecture and practice parts in order to build up the basic knowledge of the business development and entrepreneurship and to develop basal skills to practice key items learnt in a real world.

Course description and aims

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the concept of entrepreneurship and business development,
2) Understand key theories of innovation management,
3) Practice a standard approach of problem solving (the issue analysis method),
4) Practice frameworks and tools for strategy building,
5) Genrerate a standard format of business plan, and
6) Develop an implementation plan.

Student learning outcomes

実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)

Lectures from theoretical and practical viewpoints by lecturers with working experience at VC or start-up.

Keywords

Business development, entrepreneurship, innovation management, venturing, organisation design, financial valuation, collaboration management.

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

In the opening moves we indroduce the significance and impact of entrepreneurship and business development. In the middle phase we master frameworks and tools necessary for strategy building and business development. In the last phase we conduct a long research to pratice the things learnt in an interactive manner. Each phases contains both lecture and practice parts. The latter part may request participants pre-learning.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

To be cicrulated via OCW-i

Reference books, course materials, etc.

To be recmmended in the first class.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Proactive participation in the lectures and the quality of the reports are considered. Details are to be informed of in the first lecture.

Related courses

• TIM.D517 ： Entrepreneurship and Business Development II
• TIM.A401 ： Methodology of Corporate Management and Finance I
• TIM.A402 ： Methodology of Corporate Management and Finance II

Prerequisites

This is the prerequisite course to take Entrepreneurship and Business Development II. Methodology of Corporate Management and Finance I/II (or equivalent knowledge) is a prerequisite for taking this course.

Other

This lecture plan is a model case. Please check the lecture schedule of each academic year.