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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
2.5 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
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| Programme |
Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business
Administration - General Management and Analytics (GMA) |
| Course
coordinator |
- Veronica Spano - Department of Business Humanities and Law
(BHL)
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For academic
questions related to the course, please contact Veronica Spano
vs.bhl@cbs.dk.
Other academic questions: contact academic director Martin Jes
Iversen at mji.si@cbs.dk. |
| Main academic
disciplines |
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
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| Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
23-09-2026
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| Learning objectives |
This one-week course is designed to explore and
enhance students’ entrepreneurial and innovative skills through
concepts and frameworks such as playful and creative learning,
effectuation, ideation, entrepreneurship competence, and inclusive
design.
Interactive sessions will draw on best practices in team building
and team dynamics.
The week will consist primarily of workshop-style, facilitated
discussions, in which students’ own contributions are as valuable a
learning tool as the expertise, lectures, and site visits within
the greater Copenhagen entrepreneurship ecosystem.
This course will:
- Explore how playfulness and creativity can increase
entrepreneurial outcomes
- Practice effectuation and user-discovery techniques
- Introduce students to team dynamics through team-building
exercises and discussions
- Introduce students to team dynamics through team-building
exercises and discussions
- Demonstrate and provide tools for how inclusive design drives
innovation
- Create a reflective action plan for one’s own next steps in
entrepreneurship and innovation
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| Course prerequisites |
If you are a CBS student, you must qualify for
the course by:
1. Being 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
outboundexchange@cbs.dk |
| Examination |
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Play,
Creativity and Entrepreneurship:
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| Exam
ECTS |
2,5 |
| 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
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Description of the exam
procedure
Ordinary exam: Home
Assignment
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| Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
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This five-day course helps students understand the means they
already possess (and can build on) to be entrepreneurial and
innovative, using an effectuation approach.
Through interactive exercises, students gain firsthand
experience with team-building approaches and the discussions that
take place in team settings.
This short course is designed to develop capabilities for the
earliest stages of entrepreneurship, equipping students to think
and act from a ‘Yes, And’ perspective.
This course is not designed to create startups, but to support
students in applying an entrepreneurial approach to different
aspects of their professional, academic, and personal lives.
The course is designed as a tasting menu delivered over four
days, and on the last day we bring the different inputs together
into a cohesive whole.
If a student has previously been exposed to venture-building
and/or personal leadership development courses at their home
university, some concepts may seem familiar but will be presented
from a new perspective.
In order to get the most out of this course, it is important
that students arrive willing to fully participate in the scheduled
course sessions and ready to share their own experiences and
processes with the class cohort.
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| Research-based teaching |
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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
Research-like activities
- Discussion, critical reflection, modelling
- Peer review including Peer-to-peer
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| Description of the teaching methods |
| This course blends a variety of pedagogical
methods. You will learn through interactive lectures combined with
case study discussions, simulations/role-playing, or experiential
team-based learning. This course is highly interactive, and full
in-person participation is required. |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
| Students will be provided feedback throughout the
course. |
| Student workload |
| In classroom or online learning |
40 hours |
| Preparation for classes (reading literature and cases) |
15 hours |
| Final paper |
15 hours |
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| Further Information |
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To help students get the most value from this course,
instructors provide one or a small number of readings or video
clips to be completed before classes begin, along with a related
task in the first class to help 'jump-start' the learning
process.
Part of this course will take place at CBS’ entrepreneurship
centre, CSE – Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship.
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| 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.
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