2023-2024 / GEST3158-1

Mission New Venture

Duration

20h Th, 100h Pr

Number of credits

 Advanced Master in Entrepreneurship (Specialised master in entrepreneurship)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Bernard Surlemont

Coordinator

Caroline Gerkens

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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 learning unit

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

According to the Key Learning Outcomes, these objectives mainly contribute to the development of capacities  from ILO's  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, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

- Seminars with group discussions.

Recommended or required readings

Recommended reading:


Entreprendre, Une introduction à l'entrepreneuriat de F Janssen
Preparing effective business plan  Edition Prentice Hall

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam


Additional information:

Oral exam

 

 

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

The programme's ROI applies strictly to this course.
Check schedule of HEC-ULg Entrepreneurs program

Contacts

Teacher : B. Sulemont b.surlemont@uliege.be

Assistant:c.gerkens@uliege.be

Association of one or more MOOCs