FME3527 Opportunity Recognition 6.0 credits

Raising I&E Awareness

• Inspirational cases of innovation and entrepreneurship
• Setting personal ambition, targets and plan
• Basic business analysis
• Impact of innovation and entrepreneurship

Opportunity Recognition, excluding the Raising I&E Awareness module

• Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and innovation
• Technology transfer
• Market analysis
• Industry dynamics
• Applying technology
• Opportunity recognition
• Business idea
• IPR

Raising I&E Awareness (introductory module, optional if already taken elsewhere)

• The ability to differentiate different perspectives on academic entrepreneurship.
• The ability to see the possibilities connected to high-technology entrepreneurship (certain thematic areas).
• Raise awareness of the exploitation potential of their research.
• The ability to define entrepreneurship in ICT context.
• The ability to apply the basic business concepts.
• The ability to define the business environment (local vs. global industry).
• The ability to differentiate the importance and different roles that new ventures and business activities play in the national economy.
• The ability to recognize recent business trends in ICT and business markets in general and in their discipline in detail.
• To improve entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial mind-set.

Opportunity Recognition, excluding the Raising I&E Awareness module

• Enhanced awareness and ability to exploit the potential of their research.
• Obtaining a holistic understanding about the business development process at early stage.
• Gaining the ability to explain the business functions in a new venture and in an existing company and their connections to the strategy.
• Gaining the ability to apply industry specific knowledge.
• Knowledge regarding the new product/service development stages and processes.
• How to recognize business opportunities and exploit them.
• How to be able to evaluate the business opportunities in the field of high technology.
• How to be able to conduct a market assessment (including market demand, customer expectations, and customer value).
• To obtain the necessary pre-business planning skills (including IPR and business modeling).
• To show more entrepreneurial skills (presentation skills, negotiation skills, team work coordination).
• How to be able to differentiate and develop the knowledge and technology transfer systems in the academic and industrial setting (including open innovation and/or respective current paradigms).

Doctoral candidate at an EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School in ICT Innovation or doctoral candidate at KTH within or strongly related to the area of ICT.

If being an EIT ICT Labs Doctoral School in ICT Innovation student, then the Raising I&E Awareness module should either be taken before or as part of this course.

Annonseras före kursstart

Will be announced prior to start.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Passing all the four examination elements below, including attendance, is required for the final grade. INL1 is regarding the I&E module and can be substituted for a Raising I&E Awareness module already taken elsewhere. The student needs to show proof of completion of the Raising I&E Awareness module prior to attending the course.

• INL1 – Individual assignments Raising I&E Awareness, grade scale: P, F
• SEM1 – Presentations at seminars (group work) Opportunity Recognition, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, (FX) and F
• INL2 – Individual assignments Opportunity Recognition, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, (FX) and F
• INL3 – Team assignments Opportunity Recognition, grade scale: A, B, C, D, E, (FX) and F

Henrik Blomgren

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.