Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completion of the I&E Study course, students:

• have the ability to apply, synthesize, and evaluate prior I&E learning within a specific innovation or entrepreneurial project setting and a specific innovation area.
• have the ability to conduct a business analysis, make decisions and formulate recommendations or justify actions in a real environment.
• have the ability to choose and apply relevant concepts/methods and/or tools and collect relevant data for conducting a business analysis and making decisions in a real environment.
• have the ability to apply concepts, methods and tools pertaining to identifying and assessing the impact/value of a technology in an industry, market and/or organization and the innovation / business opportunities it creates.
• have the ability to produce a professional writing on a business analysis topic.
• other locally defined ILOs contributing to optimal coverage of the EIT OLOs.

 

Credits: 6

Schedule: 14.09.2023 - 31.01.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Olli-Pekka Mutanen

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  The course is composed by two components: 1) The online work part, where students will go through online content on assessing a technology and its business analysis; and 2) Group work part, where you and your team will work addressing a real-life case for a partner company conducting the business analysis, providing recommendations and potential solutions. More specifically:

  • The (individual) online work includes three online modules: 1) Assessing the impact of technology; 2) Business research methodology; 3) How to make a market entry / grow on a new market. The online work is finalized with an   individual online assignment evaluated by the teacher, where you analyse in a brief report, current and future business potential technology, which can either be selected by you, based on your interest, or otherwise you can draft the report on the technology of the company case of your group work.
  • The group-work where students will work in teams of 4-5 students to prepare a group-report to address a business challenge based on a case offered by a company and the team-dynamics related to that process. Student is expected to implement a robust business 4 steps analysis methodology consisting of: a) framing the business challenge; b) choosing appropriate business analysis tools; c) collecting data; and d) interpreting, critically discussing, making recommendations and reporting. 

  Value elements of the I&E Study course are the following:

  Interaction with a company: your goal is to tackle a company business challenge, make recommendation, and do your best to have an impact! This is neither an internship, nor a pre-recruitment.

  Robust business analysis: you will develop your analytical skills on economic and social matters; you will learn more about how to handle a business analysis and make recommendations, using qualitative and/or quantitative research methods and reflecting upon the conditions for sound analysis.

  Tech-based innovation: you will learn to employ analytical tools to assess the impact of a technology at a macro (industry, sector) or micro level (business, market).

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  The final grade is based for approx. 2/3 (or 65%) on the Group work and 1/3 (or 35%) on the Online work grade.

  • Online work grade is based on the Individual Assignment (teacher evaluation) on the impacts of technology theme. The evaluation criteria of Individual Assignment report seek to assess students ability to explain and/or apply the concepts and models contained in the online modules, in the selected technology.
  • Group work grade. The assessment is based on a written group report and published assessment criteria. 

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  This is a 6 ECTS course (162 hours). In the EIT Digital Master School I&E Minor the I&E Study course counts for 6 ECTS distributed among the individual online work 2 ECTS (54 hours) and the group-work 4 ECTS (108 h). Amount of onsite lectures is approximately 30 hours. 

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

3 Good Health and Well-being

6 Clean Water and Sanitation

7 Affordable and Clean Energy

9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

12 Responsible Production and Consumption

13 Climate Action

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  NOTE: This course is only for the students in Master’s programme in ICT Innovation (EIT Digital Master School).

  Teaching Language : English

  Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn II - Spring III
  2023-2024 Autumn II - Spring III

  Enrollment :

  Registration for Courses: Registration for courses will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi) instead of WebOodi. NOTE: This course is only for the students in Master’s programme in ICT Innovation (EIT Digital Master School).

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