2024/2025 KAN-CCBDO1005U Entrepreneurship for Development
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Entrepreneurship for Development |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory (also offered as elective) |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Semester |
Start time of the course | Spring |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for BSc and MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
MSc
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Last updated on 24-06-2024 |
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Relevant Bachelor degree (e.g. Economics, Business Administration, Anthropology, Sociology, Development Studies). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as playing a key role in economic growth and poverty alleviation, and the rapidly growing markets of developing countries are often portrayed as booming with unexploited opportunities for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs in developing countries are, however, often faced with a range of challenges related to difficult business environments with many institutional voids, resource constraints, and widespread poverty. While such challenges often act as barriers to business start-up and growth, resource scarcity and uncertain institutional contexts may also create opportunities for entrepreneurship. Accordingly new forms of entrepreneurship, which seek to bring solutions to poverty, environmental degradation, and institutional voids, are gaining salience. While such initiatives are diverse and span for-profit, non-profit and hybrid organizations, a common element is that they employ business principles to generate social, environmental and/or institutional change.
The course “Entrepreneurship for Development” examines the opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurship in developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The course examines different theoretical approaches to entrepreneurship and scrutinizes different forms of entrepreneurship (such as entrepreneurship in the informal economy, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship with the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), sustainability entrepreneurship, digitial entrepreneurship and institutional entrepreneurship). The course examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and development and critically scrutinizes if and how entrepreneurship can contribute to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. The course directs attention to the influence of the institutional, economic and cultural environment for entrepreneurship levels, opportunities and strategies, and scrutinizes how business models are adapted to the particular contexts of their operation.
First, students will be introduced to theoretical perspectives on entrepreneurship and will unravel the links between entrepreneurship and development. Second, students will examine different forms of entrepreneurship and will scrutinize different concrete entrepreneurship cases and business models. Finally, students will generate their own ideas and will formulate a concept for a venture in a developing country.
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The teaching will comprise lectures, case discussions, resource person presentations (e.g. entrepreneurs and representatives from organizations that support entrepreneurs) and workshops, which include developing and presenting a business concept. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will receive oral feedback to the
business models, which they will present in writing (using the
business model canvas) as well as orally (pitching).
Student feedback will also occur regularly throughout the course, e.g. via feedback to case questions and exercises during lectures and workshops. The lecturer will also be available for a one-to-one dialogue during office hours as well as during breaks and following each lecture session. |
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To be announced on Canvas, but most likely:
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