ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ADV4638 | Innovation and Enterpreneurship | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ŞAFAK ŞAHİN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course inspires entrepreneurial innovation and creativity through interactive lectures and case studies especially in contemporary issues. Students will gain awareness of entrepreneurial innovation sources, structures and dynamics. Students will develop individual and group skills for generating innovative ideas and find ways to apply these ideas to address current issues and problems in different industries and settings. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Understanding of the sources of innovation opportunities and development of the skills to identify and analyze these opportunities for entrepreneurship and innovation. Understanding of the industry/market dynamics and factors for developing successful innovations and apply this understanding to innovations in sectors. Development of a personal skill set for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship and specific concepts and tools for combining and managing creativity and innovation in an organizational setting. |
Philosophy of Thinking Differently, Innovation, Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability of Innovation in Industries, Creating Value, Digitalizing Industry. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | 1.week: The Innovation Imperative | |
2) | The Social Enterprenuership and Innovation | |
3) | Globalisation, Development and Sustainability | |
4) | Recognising The Opportunity | |
5) | Sources of Innovation | |
6) | Searching for Opportunities | |
7) | Midterm Exam | |
8) | Finding The Resources | |
9) | Exploiting The Newtworks | |
10) | Developing New Products and Services | |
11) | Creating New Ventures | |
12) | Exploiting Knowledge and Intellectual Property | |
13) | Creating Value and Growing Ventures | |
14) | Learning to Manage Innovation |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | "Innovation and Enterprenuership" (2.Edition) John Bessant and Joe Tidd "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" Eric Ries |
References: | "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Peter F. Drucker |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 13 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 1 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 3 | 39 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 6 | 78 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Quizzes | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Midterms | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Final | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Total Workload | 135 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |