1. Gaining insight into the strategic entrepreneurship process of entrepreneurial ventures, SMEs and family businesses. How do these companies develop their business models in constantly changing environments, orchestrate their resources to develop new opportunities and manage ambidexterity in their innovation process, with the aim to develop sustainable businesses in the long term.
2. Being able to apply the theories and concepts studied in an entrepreneurial, SME of family business context, as illustrated through case analyses.
3. Being able to analyse data on company’s strategic entrepreneurial activities and present these results to a varied group of stakeholders.
4. Learning entrepreneurial skills, such as opportunity recognition, creativity, effective communication, and collaboration in international teams through class facilitations and teamwork.

This course analyses the entrepreneurship and innovation process – moving from startup over scaleup to corporate innovation – using a strategic management lens. For the startup and scaleup setting, it investigates entrepreneurial decision models (e.g., effectuation, lean startup) and strategic and organizational challenges in scaling the business venture. For the corporate setting, it studies crucial decisions in areas like R&D spending, corporate venturing, and patenting, as well as strategic challenges related to ambidexterity and responding to disruptive innovations. This course thus offers an holistic advanced-level overview of entrepreneurship and innovation processes, with deep dives in key focal areas.

Academic articles, practitioner articles, cases.

* Some prior knowledge on strategic and innovation management could be useful in order to have a better understanding of this course.
* Exchange students need to have obtained a bachelor degree with a major in Business or in Economics.
* An advanced level of English.

Note that courses and workload are very demanding for all master International Business courses.