Tags
SB&E
Admissions requirements
None
Description
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
— Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985)
This course will introduce you to the innovator’s and entrepreneur’s disruptive role in society. The point is not that you need a special talent. It’s that you can identify and address a need.
Everyone has an opinion on what works and doesn’t work. Everyone can see how small or dramatic changes might improve matters. The problem is that few people agree on how to tackle problems. The challenge is thus to organize and make a difference. This class will focus on the influences and processes advancing or inhibiting change.
Course objectives
After completing this course you will be able to:
Discriminate between incremental vs disruptive innovation
Explain the tensions among monopoly rents, innovation and social welfare
Compare past entrepreneurial cycles with current entrepreneurial activities
Identify a challenge
Investigate PESTLE influences on the challenge
Propose a solution for dealing with the challenge
Evaluate barriers and provide a constructive critique to the proposed solution
Timetable
Once available, timetables will be published here.
Mode of instruction
The course is taught through two-hour seminars. Students will be expected to participate in both large and small group discussions and present and defend their ideas within an academic settings. The instructor will facilitate and ensure the efficient running of the discussion, but students are responsible for its quality. Required reading must be read in advance of class.
Assessment
Class participation: 20%
Group project/presentation: 15%
Individual presentation: 15%
Critique: 20%
Class essay: 30%
NB: Plagiarism software will be used to assess written assignments.
Blackboard
There will be a Blackboard site available for this course. Students will be enrolled at least one week before the start of classes.
Reading list
Books and academic papers
Registration
This course is open to LUC students and LUC exchange students. Registration is coordinated by the Curriculum Coordinator. Interested non-LUC students should contact course.administration@luc.leidenuniv.nl.
Contact
David Zetland (d.j.zetland@luc.leidenuniv.nl)
Leiden University College, Room 4.37
Faculteit Campus Den Haag
Remarks
This class is open to all students, but it is also the first class in the social and business entrepreneurship minor