Introduction to Entrepreneurship

COURSE OUTLINE – Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Course Leader: Polymeros Konstantinos

The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the modern social and economic reality of entrepreneurship and to develop corresponding skills in creativity, communication, and leadership. It serves as the foundation for students to build the ability to identify business opportunities in everyday life, focus on social needs, and create value based on their knowledge and creative and critical thinking abilities.

The emphasis is placed more on the dynamic concepts of creativity and innovation, the analysis and resolution of problematic situations, and the synthesis of solutions, as well as entrepreneurship, rather than on the narrow management of businesses. A critical element of this approach is the understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation as collective, interactive, socio-economic processes. Starting with the analysis of modern reality, the ability to explore and develop radical, realistic solutions to contemporary problems is cultivated.

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to develop and cultivate basic professional and social skills:

  • Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
  • Adaptation to new situations
  • Decision making
  • Autonomous work
  • Teamwork
  • Work in an international environment
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Ability to recognize and evaluate business and innovative “opportunities”
  • Production of new ideas
  • Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
  • Respect for the natural environment
  • Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Exercise criticism and self-criticism
  • Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
  • Understanding economic and technological developments and their implications
  • Development of business perception and professional mentality