E-TRIM – Intermediate Module
Course Languages:
English
The form of education is e-learning with aprrox. 20 hours of lessons and 20 hours of self-studying. Weekly lessons include lectures, thematic videos and performing test tasks. An important part of this course is performing final exam in the form of multiple choices quiz, which contains answers based on study material. The course is set up in compliance with the ECVET System with possibility to obtain the Certificate of attendance.
Programme of the course
1 Entrepreneurship and company organisation
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour – market opportunity identification and evaluation
1.3 Stages of innovative company foundation
1.4 Legal regulation of foundation and operation of innovative companies in all-European context
1.5 Benchmarking assessment of different types of innovative company registration
1.6 Recommendations on the company’s location (business incubators, science parks, technological clusters, etc.)
1.7 Search of project partners and interaction between them
1.8 Main business processes in innovative company management: characteristics of organizational structure, goals, functions and tasks of management subdivisions
1.9 HR policy in innovative companies, personnel management
2 Commercialization of innovative projects
2.1 Introduction
2.1 Analysis and project novelty evaluation
2.3 Methods and tools for business model development
2.4 Business plan development for project implementation
3 Innovation marketing
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Marketing process and market analysis for innovative products
3.3 Development of a new product
3.4 Entering international markets
4 Project and risk management
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Project management: concepts, models, procedures, standards, selected tools
4.3 Methods and models of risk evaluation and risk reduction in innovative projects
5 Policy, legal aspects and funding
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Patenting R and D results
5.3 Procedures for execution of a patent
5.4 Funding sources for innovative projects
5.5 Forms and methods of investment raising for innovative projects
5.6 Principles and methods of interaction with investors
5.7 Risks of venture capital funding, methods and selected tools for risk reduction
6 Best practices of innovative companies‘ operation
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Best practices
6.3 Case studies
