GEST3158-1 : Mission New Venture

Study Programmes 2015-2016

GEST3158-1

Mission New Venture

Duration :

20h Th, 100h Pr

Number of credits :

Specialised master in entrepreneurship		5

Lecturer :

Bernard Surlemont

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

This course allows students to understand the steps in the development of a business plan. The main optics of the course will focus on projects to create new businesses or spin-offs of existing companies.

Learning outcomes of the course :

As a result of this course, students will be able to:

1. Understand the springs of the entrepreneurial process.
2. Understand the foundations of a promising project and, in particular, the factors that distinguish an idea of an opportunity.
3. Master the key success factors to achieve a professional business plan.
4. Understanding the mechanisms that influence the investment decisions of actors in risk capital.
5. Familiarize teamwork

These objectives mainly contribute to the development of ILO 1 to 13 of the master's in management sciences, with a specialisation.

ILO-1 : To strengthen knowledge and understanding of management disciplines and its legal, policy and social context

ILO-2 : Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the proposed fields of concentration or to gain deep knowledge in the field of the management being already specialized thru a first University Master Degree .

ILO-3 : To understand, in management situations, the transversal tools of quantitative reasoning, information systems and project management

ILO-4 : To acquire the capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem,

ILO-5 : Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems, whether real or simulated, taking into account, when necessary, the human, social and legal context.

ILO-6 : Ability to speak 2 foreign languages: C1 in English and B2 in one other language.

ILO-9 : Developing a critical sense (arguing)

ILO-10 : Developing a transversal, global vision

ILO-11 : Creative conception of solutions

ILO-12 : Professional capacity for oral communication

ILO-13 : Professional capacity for written communication

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Admission to the program HEC-ULg Entrepreneurs

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

The activities are organised as follows:
1. An introductory seminar on entrepreneurial communication
2. Doing the actual assignment, individually, with the help of the mentor; this mentor is a professional in the field of the assignment and supports the student during the assignment.
3. thematic conferences.
4. Elaborating and handing in the business plan.
5. Participation in coaching sessions.
6. presentation and defense of the business plan in financial terms over the past financial panel (Financial jury).
7. Presentation and defence of the entire business plan to an entrepreneurial panel (final panel).

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

- Seminars with group discussions.
- Elaboration of a professional business plan, in a team, under the direction of a mentor.