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Course title Mobilising Resources for Entrepreneurial Start-up and Growth
Course code EBC2146
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
1 2-9-2019 25-10-2019 X X
Level Intermediate
Coordinator Anita van Gils
For more information: a.vangils@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
This course aims to provide you insight into how to launch and grow a high-impact venture from a resource-based perspective. In other words, after having taken this course you should understand which resources are crucial to venture success, how to gather them, what elements to take into account when mobilizing resources as well as how you can get things done without resources.
Description
The societal impact of enterprising individuals cannot be contested. They found companies that challenge (and often replace) incumbents and they have an important role in introducing innovative products and services to new or established markets. However, entrepreneurs never operate in isolation; many entrepreneurs cofound their venture with others and establish partnerships to gather the resources necessary for launching and growing their ventures.

This course covers co-founder enrollment, customer enrollment and financial enrollment. For instance, you will explore how to put together an entrepreneurial team, examine team dynamics as well as how to recruit the best employees. You will review different types of financial resources available to entrepreneurs as well as how to select the best one for a specific type of venture. Based on this, you will also examine the role of business modeling and customer validation as part of a venture's resource mobilisation. This course will explore the concept of bootstrapping or how to get things done when you do not have the required resources. In all of the above, attention will be paid to how a venture's resource mobilisation strategy is not a static concept, but is one that changes dynamically over the lifecycle of a venture.
Literature
Academic journal articles
Prerequisites
The courses of the Entrepreneurship minor (see also http://maastrichtentrepreneurship.nl/minor.html) draw on the scholarly entrepreneurship literature. They do NOT expect that you have already developed an understanding of the functional domains of business administration or small business management (e.g. strategy, marketing, accounting, HRM, finance, operations). We encourage you to take the two introductory courses of the minor (Birthing new ventures and Mobilising resources [EBC2145; EBC2146]) BEFORE taking the other courses of the Minor. As this minor is delivered in English, your command of the English language in speech and writing should be good enough to actively prepare for, participate in, and contribute to the classes.
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Lecture / Assignment / Papers / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Attendance / Participation / Assignment / Presentation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor International Business - Emerging Markets Year 3 Elective Course(s)
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Accounting
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Finance
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Inf Mgmt
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Marketing
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Org
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj SCM
Bachelor International Business Year 3 Business Elec(s) - Maj Strategy
InterFaculty Minors Minor Entrepreneurship
SBE Exchange Bachelor Bachelor Exchange Courses
SBE Exchange Master Bachelor Exchange Courses
SBE Non Degree Courses Bachelor Courses
SBE Non Degree Courses Minor Entrepreneurship