Master
2020/2021
Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Business and Politics in Modern Asia)
Area of studies:
Asian and African Studies
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Instructors:
Romie Littrell
Master’s programme:
Business and Politics in Modern Asia
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
8
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The main objective of this course is to gain familiarity with a number of novel entrepreneurial engagements around the world that have created enormous productive social, political, and economic change in diverse emerging economies. While the allure of solving problems is enticing, the challenges associated with embarking on an entrepreneurial journey in such contexts can be daunting. This course explores these challenges both generally and in the specific institutional context within which the problem of interest is situated. Online course “ Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies ” https://www.edx.org/course/entrepreneurship-in-emerging-economies
Learning Objectives
- The objective of the course is to highlight how individual entrepreneurs have managed to circumvent the limitations of the environments within which they operate to create impact-at-scale
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to improve and develop his intellectual and cultural level, to build the trajectory of professional development and career.
- Able to make management decisions and ready to take responsibility for them
- Able to conduct research in the field of history, economics, political science, culture, religion, languages and literature of Asian and African countries in accordance with the profile direction of the magistracy
- Able to independently set specific tasks of scientific research in the field of history, economics, political science, culture, religion, languages and literature of Asian and African countries and solve them with the help of the latest domestic and foreign experience of oriental studies
- Able to freely use in the professional field modern information technologies, use computer networks, software products and Internet resources to solve problems of professional activity, including outside the scope of training
- Able to generalize, analyze, perceive information, set goals and choose ways to achieve it
- Able to take initiative, including in situations of risk, to take full responsibility
Course Contents
- Characterizing the Context of Emerging Markets
- Achieving Impact at Scale through Entrepreneurship
- Branding and the Stories of Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Creativity and Innovation as Drivers of Entrepreneurship
- Platforms, Partnerships and Entrepreneurship
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Drucker, P. F. (2015). Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Routledge.
- Jens Hölscher, & Horst Tomann. (2016). Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics. Palgrave Macmillan.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Haghirian, P., & World Scientific (Firm). (2014). Case Studies In Asian Management. Singapore: World Scientific. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=661914
- Rein, S. (2014). The End of Copycat China : The Rise of Creativity, Innovation, and Individualism in Asia. Hoboken: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=852531