GE2304Foundations of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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课程简介

This course aims to help university students to understand the personal characteristics and thinking styles of an innovator and entrepreneur. It also aims to nurture students' innovation attitude, entrepreneurial spirit and team collaboration skills in a multi-disciplinary environment. The course will provide an opportunity for students from engineering and sciences, social sciences, and management fields to learn together in their own mock companies and play the roles of CEO and various other managers to simulate the innovation and entrepreneurship process. Students will learn the basic skills of discover real-life problems, generate new ideas, propose new products and plan new enterprises. They will then learn to analyse the feasibility of the product/service from both technical and managerial aspects and write a simple business plan as a group task, and then do a mock presentation.

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课程内容

CILO 1: Describe innovators and entrepreneurs (week 1-3) • Introduction to creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship (what are the differences?) • Personal characteristics of innovators and entrepreneurs (who are they?), • Strength and weakness of HK/China university students in innovation and entrepreneurship (can HK/china students be innovative/entrepreneurial?). CILO 2: Thinking style and assessment (week 4-5) • Assessment of thinking patterns, • Cultural differences and its impact on thinking (are western people more innovative and entrepreneurial than Chinese?) CILO 3: Idea generation and sources of innovation (week 6-7) • Innovation based on new technologies (e.g, Nano materials do not get dirty, will there any new products based on this feature?) • Innovation based on daily problem (A person does not want to go to the barbershop, will there any new product to help him?) CILO 4: Feasibility of innovation and entrepreneurship (week 8-10) • Technological feasibility (Is the technology available or can be made?) • Market feasibility (who will need it? Where to sell it?) • Financial resources and feasibility (Can you make money?) • Social and environmental consideration (is it social and environmental friendly?) CILO 5: Integration & process of innovation and entrepreneurship (week 11-12) • From idea generation, feasibility study to implementation (Is innovation and entrepreneurship a lucky bingo or a tedious process?) • Development of business plan (how to record the details of your idea and justification as well as implementation plan?) Course review (Week 13) • Introduction to on-campus entrepreneurial activities and business plan competitions • The influence of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention • Student feedback and course review

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CILOs                                               Weighting (if DEC-A1          DEC-A2          DEC-A3
                                                                   app.)
1              To describe the characteristics and thinking of     5               x
               innovators and entrepreneurs.
2              To identify different thinking styles associated     5               x             x
               with innovation.
3              To discover problems, generate new ideas and        30              x             x               x
               propose new products.
4              To conduct basic but comprehensive feasibility      20                            x
               study of a new product.
5              To incorporate all the above factors into a         40                            x               x
               simple business plan.

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先修条件

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建议先备知识

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考核方式

Continuous Assessment (%): 50; Examination (%): 50; Examination Duration (Hours): 2

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ATs                   CILO No.              Weighting (%)           Remarks ("-" for   Allow Use of
                                                                                            nil entry)         GenAI?
1                       Class activities and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5          10                      -                  No
                        assignments
2                       Group project         3, 4, 5               40                      -                  No

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通过条件

Minimum Continuous Assessment Passing Requirement (%): 30 Minimum Examination Passing Requirement (%): 30

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