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2025/2026  KAN-CGMAA8002U  Play, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

English Title
Play, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 1.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Spring
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Min. participants 15
Max. participants 25
Study board
Study Board for Governance, Law, Accounting & Management Analytics
Programme Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration - General Management and Analytics (GMA)
Course coordinator
  • Lena Olaison - Department of Business Humanities and Law (BHL)
For academic questions related to the course, please contact instructor Stephanie Clemente sc.cse@cbs.dk. Other academic questions: contact academic director Martin Jes Iversen at mji.si@cbs.dk.
Main academic disciplines
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 03-12-2025

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Learning objectives
This 1-week course is designed to explore & enhance one’s own entrepreneurial and innovative skills through concepts & frameworks such as playful & creative learning, effectuation, ideation and inclusive design. Interactive sessions will tap into the best practices of team building and team dynamics.
The week will consist of a mix of lecturing, workshops, and site visits with the greater Copenhagen entrepreneurship ecosystem.

This course:
  • Introduces students to team dynamics & team building exercises & conversations
  • Demonstrate and offer tools on how inclusive design is a driver for innovation
  • Meet student founders & startups and practice user discovery techniques
  • Explore how playfulness and creativity can increase entrepreneurial outcomes
  • Create a reflective action plan for one’s own next steps in entrepreneurship & innovation
Course prerequisites
This course is a special course limited to graduate students returning from exchange. To qualify for the course you:

1. Enrolled in a graduate program at CBS
2. Have to have passed 28 ECTS during your exchange
3. Have to submit a motivational statement to outexchange@cbs.dk
Examination
Play, Creativity and Entrepreneurship:
Exam ECTS 1,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 5 pages
Assignment type Essay
Release of assignment Subject chosen by students themselves, see guidelines if any
Duration 2 weeks to prepare
Grading scale Pass / Fail
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Spring
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Retake exam: Home assignment
Description of the exam procedure

Ordinary exam: Home Assignment
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

This five-day course develops students to understand the means in which they already have (and can build on), to be entrepreneurial and innovative from an effectuation approach.

Interactive course sessions will tap into the best practices of team building and team dynamics. This short course is designed to develop capabilities around the earliest stages of entrepreneurship and be better equipped to think and act from a Yes And perspective.

Note: this course is not designed to create startups. 

 
Research-based teaching
CBS’ programmes and teaching are research-based. The following types of research-based knowledge and research-like activities are included in this course:
Research-based knowledge
  • New theory
Research-like activities
  • Discussion, critical reflection, modelling
  • Peer review including Peer-to-peer
Description of the teaching methods
This course blends a variety of pedagogical methods. You learn through interactive lectures combined with either case study discussions, simulations / role playing, or experiential learning team settings. This course is highly interactive and full in-person participation is a requirement.
Feedback during the teaching period
Students will be provided feedback throughout the course.
Student workload
In classroom or online learning 25 hours
Preparation for classroom activities 5 hours
Final paper 11,5 hours
Further Information

To help students get maximum value from this course, instructors provide a reading or a small number of readings or video clips to be read or viewed before the start of classes with a related task scheduled for class 1 in order to 'jump-start' the learning process.

Part of this course will take place at CBS’ entrepreneurship center, CSE – Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship
Expected literature
  • Frandsen, A. K., Bonfils, I. S., & Olsen, L. (red.) (2024). Universal design: Cross-disciplinary perspectives in theory and practice. (1. udg.) Aalborg Universitetsforlag.
  • Lubinski, C. (2023). Cupid's Wingman: Social Dating at Doubble. The Nordic Case House.  https:/​/​www.thecasecentre.org/​products/​view?id=194005
  • Mardell, B. (2019). Playful learning in early childhood classrooms: It’s complicated. Exchange, May/June 2019, 53–56. Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. Retrieved from https:/​/​www.ExchangePress.com
  • Read, Stuart, and Saras D. Sarasvathy. “Knowing What to Do and Doing What You Know.” The Journal of Private Equity 9, no. 1 (2005): 45-62.
  • Ruef, Martin, Howard Aldrich, and Nancy Carter. "The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties and Isolation Among U.S. Entrepreneurs." American Sociological Review 68, no. 2 (2003): 195-222.
  • Wasserman, N. (2012). The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. Princeton University Press, chapter 4 & 5.
Last updated on 03-12-2025