International Entrepreneurship

Note du 29 juin 2020
Sans connaitre encore le temps que dureront les mesures de distances sociales liées à la pandémie de Covid-19, et quels que soient les changements qui ont dû être opérés dans l’évaluation de la session de juin 2020 par rapport à ce que prévoit la présente fiche descriptive, de nouvelles modalités d’évaluation des unités d’enseignement peuvent encore être adoptées par l’enseignant ; des précisions sur ces modalités ont été -ou seront-communiquées par les enseignant·es aux étudiant·es dans les plus brefs délais.

5 crédits

30.0 h + 30.0 h

Enseignants

Janssen Frank;

Langue
d'enseignement

Anglais

Préalables

Selection - Apply before October 22
In addition, this course is reserved for students with a bachelor's degree in business engineering or students with equivalent quantitative method skills

Thèmes abordés

This course will be dedicated to the theoretical and practical aspects of international entrepreneurship.

Acquis
d'apprentissage

A la fin de cette unité d’enseignement, l’étudiant est capable de :

During their programme, students will have developed the following capabilities'

A SCIENTIFIC AND SYSTEMATIC APPROACH

Collect, select and analyze relevant information using rigorous, advanced and appropriate methods.

INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Initiale, develop and implement ideas around a newproduct, service, processor organizational structure, having evaluated the risks and remain pragmatic.

WORK EFFECTIVELY IN AN INTERNATIONAL AND MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Position and understand the functioning of an organization, in its local and international socio-economic dimensions and identify the associated strategic issues and operational decisions.

TEAMWORK AND LEADERSHIP

Work in a team :Join in and collaborate with team members. Be open and take into consideration the different points of view and ways of thinking, manage differences and conflicts constructively, accept diversity

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Express a clear and structured message, both orally and in writing in their mother tongue, in English and ideally, in a third language, adapted to the audience and using context specific communication standards.

La contribution de cette UE au développement et à la maîtrise des compétences et acquis du (des) programme(s) est accessible à la fin de cette fiche, dans la partie « Programmes/formations proposant cette unité d’enseignement (UE) ».

Contenu

Intercultural management
International entrepreneurship
Projects pre-evaluation
Projects presentation

Méthodes d'enseignement

After having familiarized themselves with the theory of international entrepreneurship, students will work in binational teams on an international new venture project.
The course will contain theoretical parts, but will mainly be organized around real-life entrepreneurial processes.
All students will have to form an international team (2 UCL students - 2 students from a US university) and will be required to complete and present their own new international venture creation project in cooperation with the US students.
The pedagogy will be interactive and will include common classes (videoconferencing, travels abroad, company visits, etc.).
The last three sessions will be devoted to the presentation and a discussion of the students' group works or projects.
The course involves a one-week trip to UNC Greensboro (USA) and a week during which Belgian students will host their US counterparts.

Modes d'évaluation
des acquis des étudiants

Continuous evaluation

Date: During the hosted week
Type of evaluation: binomial work - Written work + oral presentation and participation in the activities.
Comments: 2 American students and 2 Belgian students will form a team
Belgian Students will host American Students during a week and American Students will host Belgian Students during a week.
The student will be graded on class participation and entrepreneurial activities organization, both in the USA and Belgium (10%). The business plan oral presentation, on the last day at UNC, and the written work(15-20 pages) represent the major part of the grade (60%). At the end of the class, an individual critical essay on internationalization process of SMEs is requested for May 21 (30%).

Evaluation week

Oral: Non
Written: Non
Unavailability or comments: Non

Examination session

Oral: Non
Written: Non
Unavailability or comments: Non

Autres infos

Selection - Apply before October 22
To follow this course, you have to send an apllication file by e-mail and give a hard copy of it to Roxane De Hoe (roxane.dehoe@uclouvain.be, bureau B213, LSM) for October 22th, at the latest ! The application file is available on Moodle (course LLSMS2080) section "Documents & practical information", folder "01 Information session and candidature file".
An information session will be organized on Wednesday October 10 at 12:45 at LECL61

Bibliographie

Course notes : Provided through Moodle.
References : Provided during the classes.

Faculté ou entité
en charge

CLSM

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Intitulé du programme

Sigle

Crédits

Prérequis

Acquis
d'apprentissage

Master [120] en administration publique

ADPU2M

Master [120] en droit

DROI2M

Master [120] en sciences de la motricité, orientation éducation physique

EDPH2M

Master [120] en sciences de gestion

GESM2M

Master [120] en communication multilingue

MULT2M

Master [120] : ingénieur de gestion

INGE2M

Master [120] en linguistique

LING2M

Master [120] en sciences de gestion

GEST2M

Master [120] : ingénieur de gestion

INGM2M