Play, Creativity and Entrepreneurship

About the course

Subjects

Entrepreneurship Innovation

Course content

This five-day course develops students to understand the means in which they already have (and can build on), to be entrepreneurial and innovative from an effectuation approach.

Interactive course sessions will tap into the best practices of team building and team dynamics. This short course is designed to develop capabilities around the earliest stages of entrepreneurship and be better equipped to think and act from a Yes And perspective.

Note: this course is not designed to create startups.

See course description in course catalogue

What you will learn

This 1-week course is designed to explore & enhance one’s own entrepreneurial and innovative skills through concepts & frameworks such as playful & creative learning, effectuation, ideation and inclusive design. Interactive sessions will tap into the best practices of team building and team dynamics. The week will consist of a mix of lecturing, workshops, and site visits with the greater Copenhagen entrepreneurship ecosystem. This course:

Introduces students to team dynamics & team building exercises & conversations
Demonstrate and offer tools on how inclusive design is a driver for innovation
Meet student founders & startups and practice user discovery techniques
Explore how playfulness and creativity can increase entrepreneurial outcomes
Create a reflective action plan for one’s own next steps in entrepreneurship & innovation

Course prerequisites

This course is a special course limited to cand. merc. students returning from exchange. To qualify for the course you: 1. Enrolled in a cand.merc. programs at CBS 2. Have to have passed 28 ECTS during your exchange 3. Have to submit a motivational statement to outexchange@cbs.dk

Facts

Level

Master

Type

Elective

ECTS

1.5

Code

CCMVA8007U

Teaching periods

Spring – semester

Academic year

2024/2025

Status

Available places

Teaching language

English

Teaching Format

On campus

Exams

Written assignment
Individual exam, spring

Assessment type

Passed / not passed