ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND VENTURE CAPITAL

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

EVC13

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS

Disciplinary Sector:

Corporate Finance

Language:

English

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MASCIARELLI FRANCESCA

Cycle:

Second four months

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Prerequisites:

In order to successfully attend the classes, basics of managements and economics are required.

Objectives

The course provides students with the theoretical and practical knowledge related to the entrepreneurial process, students must be able to analyze and evaluate the main new venture entrepreneurial models, evaluate and recognize entrepreneurial opportunities; analyze and evaluate the innovation and the reference markets of the new ventures; know the main tools for protecting business ideas; analyze and evaluate the new venture modeling companies; be able to analyze the elements characterizing the entrepreneur's personality, solve management problems of a new venture; know how to finance new venture capital; to learn about both traditional financing tools for a new venture and innovative tools, crowdfunding, initial coin offering; be able to recognize, analyze and evaluate the various financing phases of new ventures.

Contents

Combining case studies and traditional lectures, the course examines the challenges of starting new ventures and it illustrates how venture capital can help entrepreneurial initiatives.

Extended Syllabus

This part of the course is focused on the recognition and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. Regarding the recognition of entrepreneurial opportunity, the course introduces useful tools for entrepreneurs or potential entrepreneurs to identify and evaluate new opportunities. As regards the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunity, it analyzes the main tools for protecting business ideas and discusses the new ventures' business models.

Being an entrerpreneur. The second part of the course focuses on the entrerpreneur with a specific focus on the entrerpreneurs' personality traits.

The third part of the course focuses on financing new businesses by analyzing traditional forms of financing and analyzing the most innovative forms such as crowdfunding and initial coin offering (ICO)

Recommended Bibliography

Attending students: project work and case studies distributed in class + selected chapters from Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, T. Byers, R. Dorf, A. Nelson, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company (PARTI:I; II; III;IV)
Not attending students: Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise, T. Byers, R. Dorf, A. Nelson, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course is articulates in sessions. Each session is articulated in three classes. During each class, the teacher shall provide an overview of the topic using traditional lectures, case studies, seminars and students’ presentations.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

For attending students: 10% case discussion. The goal is to evaluate students’ public speaking abilities and to facilitate students’ ongoing self-assessment and learning progresses. 20% project work. The project work consists in a 10 pages business report in which students are called to solve a business problem presented by the teacher in collaboration with a local start-up. The goal is to evaluate students’ "know how" and their ability to solve real business problems; 70% Final exam composed by open questions.
For not attending students: Written Exam, composed by open questions .

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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