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Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Course number

KTH: ME2810, SSE: 8071, KI: 2XX048, KFK: n/a, SU: FE6611

Schedule

Autumn 2011

Dates

Autumn 2011: 27 Oct - 13 Dec

Structure

The course runs after 5 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in 2-3 hour sessions

Worth: 7.5 ECTS-credits

Taught at

Stockholm University

Swedish course name

Entreprenörskap i utvecklingsländer

Entrepreneurship can provide wealth in different ways. In this course we challenge you to understand entrepreneurship as an efficient tool in tackling the challenges of today, but also to see developing countries as potential markets for any entrepreneurial venture.

This course is structured around two main areas. Firstly, the course will focus on how entrepreneurship can function as an efficient method in solving problems concerned with everything from poverty alleviation to mobilisation of people. Secondly, the course will look at specific challenges that faces entrepreneurs interested in entering markets in developing countries, and emerging markets specifically.

NB: if you are specifically interested in how to run not-for-profit ventures stay on the look-out for the forthcoming SSES-course "Social Entrepreneurship", also offered via SU.

Intended learning outcomes

After this course you should be able to:

  • describe the key development challenges facing the developing world in the 21st Century
  • identify opportunities for entrepreneurial initiatives in developing countries, especially among the poor
  • argue for what kind of generic expertise it takes to develop entrepreneurial initiatives in developing countries
  • evaluate leadership and managerial dilemmas in navigating risk and uncertainty in developing regions
  • analyse, from theory and practice, links between technological and/or social innovations, entrepreneurship and sustainable development
  • identify and analyse the prevailing features of the overall policy and reform environment that shape entrepreneurial development in Africa, Asia and Latin America
  • discuss foreign aid, trade and foreign direct investment as tools for developing capacity to do business for sustainable development.

Structure

In order for you as a student to be able to take SSES courses they are all scheduled after your daily classes (or workday), with some margin time to ensure you can commute to campus, pick up a coffee and arrive on time.

This course runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays in two to three hour sessions for some seven weeks, but for a detailed timing check out the schedule in the box to the right. Teaching will incorporate lectures, debates, and exercises, as well as presentation from leaders in the field. 

Assessment

  • Case study
  • Research paper 

Teacher(s)

Malin Gawell

Course Director

malin.gawell@esbri.se

Dr. Malin Gawell’s main field of research is the process of developing new organisations that have a primary aim of creating social change, or in other words entrepreneurial processes for social change. This focuses on socially constructed human beings and their involvement in organising thoughts, words and action. The research includes entrepreneurship theories applied in a societal context, in a field which is dominated by social and civic participation. The entrepreneurial process is also related to the "wider" context of social movements in society.