2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Technology and Innovation Management Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
Entrepreneurship and Business Development II
- 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.D517
- Number of credits
- 0.50.50
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- 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
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Business plan development | Roles, importance and utility of business planning |
| Class 2 | Revenue and profit plans | Revenue and profit plans |
| Class 3 | Valuation methods | Standard approaches of valuation, including scoring, discount cash flow, etc. |
| Class 4 | Capitalisation strategy | Basic approaches for capitalisation of startup firms |
| Class 5 | Group discussion | Discussion of a case study |
| Class 6 | Lecture by an external expert | Realistic capitalisation planning |
| Class 7 | Group presentation and reflection | Presentation of the case, general discussion |
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)
Practice by groups and presentation
Reference books, course materials, etc.
To be recommended in the fist 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.D516 ： Entrepreneurship and Business Development I
- TIM.A401 ： Methodology of Corporate Management and Finance I
- TIM.A402 ： Methodology of Corporate Management and Finance II
Prerequisites
The prerequisite to take this course is that you have acquired the credits of "Entrepreneurship and Business Development I".
Without having acquired the credits of the above course, the credits of this course will not be counted as the necessary number of credits for graduation.
Other
This lecture plan is a model case. Please check the lecture schedule of each academic year.