Entrepreneurial Project 1 5 credits

The purpose of this course is for students to put their theoretical knowledge of new venture creation and development into practice. Students, individually or in groups, will decide upon an entrepreneurial project that they will develop throughout this course. Students will be provided guidance and coaching from teaching staff and external actors during this process. Students will be expected not only to practicality establish and develop an entrepreneurial idea, but also to reflect on the development process. Students will be expected to propose, test, action, and reflect on their initiatives iteratively and continuously during the course. **Connection to research and practice** This course is fundamentally practical. Students will engage in real-life new venture creation activities outside of the classroom setting as ‘student-entrepreneurs’. Students should go beyond the ideas that they have developed and validated in the previous Entrepreneuring course and apply them. Support will be provided throughout this process with guidance from qualified teaching staff and experts from Jönköping Science Park. Students will be expected to interact and collaborate with key external stakeholders relevant to their new ventures. Furthermore, the practice of new venture creation will also be theoretically guided following reflexive, evidence-based, and iterative best practices outlined in the academic literature.