Project Course Advanced - Sustainable Business Development

Aim

The course aims to consolidate knowledge gained in the sustainable business development area through formulating and planning a sustainable business solution and deepen the theoretical and methodological capabilities within the area. After completion the student shall:

• be able to assimilate and critically analyse the content in relevant literature
• to account for critical factors for the establishment of an entrepreneurial venture and have ability to collect and analyse relevant information for that purpose
• be able to control identification, selection and application of theoretical and knowledge areas for specific problem and describe this in an individual report
• be able to systematically integrate knowledge gained during their study programme to solve a relevant problem within the sustainable business development area.
• be able to communicate results of a project both orally and in writing and during the different phases of the project
• be confident in critical assessment and evaluation of their own as well as other students’ work.

Content

• Entrepreneurship, innovation and business activities in general and in the context of environmental technology
• Strucutre, characteristics and conditions of the environmental technology sector and its sub-sectors
• Idea creation- The process from idea to business model. How to formulate an idea that can be used for creating a new or developing an already established business.
• Methods and theories for in depth studies in the area of sustainable business development