GEST3160-1 : Mission Networking and financing

Study Programmes 2015-2016

GEST3160-1

Mission Networking and financing

Duration :

20h Th, 100h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in management (120 ECTS)		4
Specialised master in entrepreneurship		5

Lecturer :

Bernard Surlemont

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The objective of this mission is to stimulate the progress of your personnal project on the operational aspects of the networks necessary to build with partners, potential funders (in the broad sense) thereof and ecosystem players entrepreneurial helpful to your project.

Learning outcomes of the course :

At the end of this course, students will have deepened:

1. All elements that are associated with "internal" dimensions: (Key partners, Key activities, Key resources et cost structure) du BMC
2. The various aspects "funding".
3. aspects of the entrepreneurial ecosystem including identification of all aid and support which could usefully advantage the project to be implemented.
These objectives mainly contribute to the development of ILO 1 to 5 and 9 to 13 of the master's in management sciences with a specialisationand.

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-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 (business as usual).
2. Definition of a roadmap in close cooperation with the mentor and the head of the mission (see below).
3. Performing all tasks in the roadmap.
4. Delivery of a mission report.

The roadmap is a list of actions necessary to achieve the objectives of the mission (internal elements of the BMC, funding and ecosystem). This list of actions will be detailed and operational as mush as possible. The roadmap will address all the elements that the holder of project pledges to fulfill during the mission.

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

- Seminars with group discussions.
- Work alone or within a team, under the direction of a mentor.