Code
MUFE ENT 3402
Level
L3
Field
Entrepreneuriat
Language
Anglais/English
ECTS Credits
2
Class hours
18
Total student load
40
Program Manager(s)
Department
- Management, Marketing et Stratégie
Educational team
Introduction to the module
This immersive course empowers participants to master the entrepreneurial mindset by exploring the critical intersection of systematic innovation and regenerative business design. Guided by a highly experienced founder and entrepreneurship expert with over 20 years of international teaching experience across 12 countries, students will progress through an exploratory curriculum—ranging from identifying diverse sources of innovation and mastering the "ideative state" to applying design thinking and validating market-ready business models. The journey culminates in a collaborative "Challenge Project," where teams integrate these tools and methods to develop innovative, regenerative concepts while learning the vital role leadership and culture play in managing successful, innovative organizations.
Learning goals
- 5. Élaborer une vision stratégique et innovante, en s’appuyant sur les potentiels de l’intelligence digitale et sur un écosystème favorable
Learning objectives
- 2 - Produce and mobilise highly specialised knowledge, derived from critical thinking, in a field of expertise
- 2.2 - Drive creativity by mobilising ideation techniques and promoting interdisciplinarity and collaborative work to provide innovative solutions to complex issues in multicultural and international contexts.
- 2.3 - Conduct a reflective and detached analysis that takes into account the challenges, issues and complexity of a request or situation in order to propose appropriate and/or innovative solutions in line with regulatory developments.
- 3 - Communicate strategically in global and multicultural environments
- 3.2 - Communicate effectively and appropriately for the purposes of training, knowledge transfer, skills development or innovation, in English and at least one other language, in a global and multicultural context.
- 4 - Lead projects for the societal, digital, energy and/or environmental transformation of organisations
- 4.1 - Understand and apply complex project management methods in order to propose innovative strategic approaches that integrate the societal, digital, energy and/or environmental challenges that organisations may face.
- 5 - Develop a strategic and innovative vision, drawing on the potential of digital intelligence and on a favourable ecosystem
- 5.2 - Lead or co-lead the development of an innovative, meaningful strategic vision, drawing on the potential of digital intelligence, within a set of identified constraints, to create the conditions for sustainable performance.
- 5.3 - Bring together and engage internal and external stakeholders in order to develop an internal and external network conducive to the strategic development of the organisation, while ensuring that interactions between management and the various operati
Course Learning objectives
After successful completion of the course, participants are able to:
Describe how to think and act entrepreneurially
Describe innovation and its various types and measurement
Describe elements of innovative organisations and how they are created
Describe and apply how to ideate effectively
Describe the sources of innovation and their implications
Understand how leadership and culture affect innovation
Understand the do's and don’ts for an effective management of innovation Identify the key factors for success and the mistakes to avoid when managing innovation.
Explore different methods and tools applied in the process of innovation
Content : structure and schedule
The subjects are structural in an exploratory manner and integrate a 'capstone' project The course modules are:
The entrepreneurial mindset
Sources of innovation
The ideative state
Design thinking
Idea to opportunity
Challenge Project
Value proposition, markets and business models
Sustainable Development Goals
As part of the regenerative business focus for the course, student will have the option to address all SDGs and explore what it means to use the SDGs as a basis for building a business concept
Number of SDG's addressed among the 17
17
Learning delivery
synchrone
Pedagogical methods
Project-based learning, self-reflection, peer-learning
Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams
Assessment is based on the student’s attitude and commitment to the module, the learning process, and the project development:
Final grade = participation / activities + assignment(s) + final presentation
60% of the grading will be made on an individual basis, specifically the participation and assignments, whilst the group work will account for 40% of the final grade.
In the event of a failing grade, a make-up assignment is organized; it consists of an assignment analysing their entrepreneurial project and accounts for 100% of the final grade.
Module Policies
Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.
Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.
Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.
Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.
Textbook Required and Suggested Readings
de Jong, M., Marston, N., Roth, E. & van Biljon, P. (2013). The Eight Essentials of Innovation Performance, McKinsey and Co. Retrieved from: www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/dotcom/client_service/Strategy/PDFs/The_Eight_Essentials_of_Innovation_Performance.ashx
Sarasvathy, S.D. (2001). What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial (w. Notes by Vinod Khosla)
Keywords
Innovation, entrepreneurship, RegenerativeEconomies, SDGs