Turning Ideas into Sustainable Business (6 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Opintojakson aikana opiskelija synnyttää tiimissä uusia liiketoiminta-aihioita, testaa niitä mahdollisuuksien mukaan ja arvioi niiden potentiaalia mahdollisen valmistumisen jälkeisen yrittäjyyden näkökulmasta.

Tavoite
- Opiskelija osaa tiimissä luoda uusia liiketoimintamalleja ja arvioida niitä
- Opiskelija osaa käyttää tilanteeseen sopivia menetelmiä kehittääkseen ideaansa
- Opiskelija osaa ottaa asiakkaan huomioon kehittäessään uutta tuotetta tai palvelua
- opiskelija osaa toimia tehokkasti ryhmässä

Content (course unit)

Kuinka synnytetäään uutta liiketoimintaa?
Mitä uuden tuotteen tai palvelun markkinoille pääseminen edellyttää?
Kuinka tehdään tuloksekasta yhteistyötä liiketoiminnan synnyttämisessä?

Location and time

Please see the Pakki/Lukkarikone apps and follow the information on Proakatemia's and your teams communication channels. In general, the training sessions take place twice a week, four hours at a time, at Proakatemia unless otherwise arranged.

Exam schedules

There are no traditional exams. Team participates in Proakatemia's events i.e. Tiimidiili, sales days, 24H, and demonstrates skills and knowledge by solving real life business cases. The coach may add or modify cases according to the needs of the team.

Assessment methods and criteria

Active participation in training sessions, dialogue, reflection. Self-, peer- and coach evaluation reflecting the set goals.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

There are hardly any traditional lectures or exams at Proakatemia. Learning methods and environments are for example training sessions 'paja' (primings, dialogue, workshops, independent studying), literature, writing and publising, expert lectures and other fact-finding, project work, seminars, learning cells and common events. Learning is connected with business projects. The teampreneurs are responsible of the content of the training sessions, in co-operation with their coach.

Learning materials

Literature advice from coaches, teachers and other teampreneurs.

Student workload

During each semester the team organizes 132 h of training sessions, and every teampreneur participates minimum 120 h. If prevented, it is possible to corss-pollinate.
Training sessions require also
- preparations of the sessions
- getting ready personally (pretasks, if given)
- reflection.
Training sessions take normally 2 x 4 h per week. In addition 40 hours of other team work is required.

Content scheduling

According to the current needs of the team enterprise.

Completion alternatives

In general, teampreneurs participate in the training sessions of their own team enterprice. If prevented or needed for learning, it is possible to cross-pollunate in the training sessions of other teams at Proakatemia or ohter team academies or similar learning organizations.

If the teampreneur participates in student exchange, their training sessions are replaced with studies in the destination.

Practical training and working life cooperation

Contens of the studies are connected with real life business projects' needs.

International connections

As the business grows and/or there are international projects, international business related content will be learnt in training sessions.

Further information

Studies at Proakatemia are integrated to teampreneurs businesses. It is not possible to study separate courses of the curriculum without special arrangements.

Assessment criteria - pass/fail (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Passed
Student has actively and constructively participated in the training sessions and team work of their team as required (120 + 40 hours). Students knows the content well enough to be able to use it in practice in their team enterprise. Their dialogue skills have improved. They operate according to the chosen values and procedures.

Failed
Lack of hours. The student knows the concepts only superficially or is not able to apply them in practice in his/her team enterprise. The student does not operate according to the chosen values and procedures.