Entrepreneurship and Business ActivitiesLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

Students master the central issues related to setting up a business. They are familiar with the basics of market mechanism, client-oriented entrepreneurship and marketing. Students are able to describe the special elements of entrepreneurship in health care and prosthetics and orthotics. They understand the factors affecting the success of businesses and organisations. Students feel encouraged and eager to embrace an entrepreneurial approach.

Content

Setting up an enterprise. Subcategories and basic processes of entrepreneurship. Business plan. Clients’ needs, choices and market behaviour. Marketing goals and competitive measures. Profitable entrepreneurship and networks. Financial process of businesses. Internal entrepreneurship and readiness for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship in health care.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students use the appropriate core concepts as well as make choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They recognise the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.

Students’ actions follow the rules and instructions given, and they use working methods appropriately and safely.

Students work according to the professional ethics of their own field, and they act responsibly as group members.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students analyse the relationships between appropriate core concepts as well as justify their choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They analyse the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.

Students act according to the rules and instructions given in their operating environment, and they use working methods appropriately and safely.

Students work according to the professional ethics of their own field, and they act flexibly as group members.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students analyse and assess the relationships between appropriate core concepts as well as make choices using the knowledge base of their own professional field. They assess the prerequisites and consequences of their own actions.

Students act initiatively and goal-orientedly in diverse operating environments, and they apply working methods appropriately and safely.

Students work according to professional ethics in varied situations, and their functioning enhances group activities.