Information Package / Course Catalogue
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
Course Code: SYB226
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

The course aims to introduce students to the processes of defining new business opportunities, making business plans within the framework of these opportunities and making business plans for research and new initiatives, as well as to discuss innovation management at the level of expertise in the organizational context from a strategic and operational perspective. Students are encouraged to produce creative ideas that are open to commercial benefit for new initiatives. Turning creative ideas into successful business ventures is a difficult task that requires creativity, good understanding of the business environment and the market, careful planning, risk management and business management capabilities. This course is designed to cover the set of entrepreneurial thinking about creating new initiatives, creativity and Idea development, evaluating interventional opportunities, conducting feasibility studies and market research, planning location and capacity with marketing plan and financial preparation, legal issues and risk analysis, providing strategic tools, equipment and a framework for the innovation process, as well as the importance of analytical and interpersonal

Course Content

Introduction, general definitions and concepts related to innovation and innovation management. Objectives/objectives, rules, processes, culture and types of innovation. Remarks on Team innovation and brainstorming. Examples Of Application Of Innovation Process. Creativity, importance, definitions and concepts. Two theories and examples of creativity. Innovation Organization and entrepreneurship. New product and service development

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to defend the proposed solutions
2.To be able to be aware of their own knowledge and skill levels
3.To be able to take decision for operational and tactical decisions
4.It is expected that innovation management will use its tools to identify innovation activities and that this will be reflected in entrepreneurship.
5.To gain competitive advantage in the market, it is expected to show an understanding of the strategic relationship between entrepreneurship and organizational innovation processes.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Innovation and entrepreneurship, Mustafa Şeref Akın, Sürat Üniversite Yayınları, 2014
2.Innovation, Harvard Business Review, Optimist Publishing, 2014
3.Oslo Manual, collection of data and principles to the interpretation of Innovation, TUBITAK Publications, 2005.
4.Reverse Innovation, Chris Trimble, Vijay Govindarajan, Modus Book, 2013.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Entrepreneurship and general concepts
Week 2 - Theoretical
Efficient use of resources and creating new resources, change management, creativity and innovation skills, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behavior.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Individual SWOT analysis and strategic road mapping, definition of innovation.
Week 4 - Practice
SWOT analysis and strategic road map creation methods of application.
Week 5 - Theoretical
Examination of the Oslo Manual.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Objectives of innovation activities, innovation, social, economic and political dimension.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Innovation types, product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation, organizational innovation.
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Mid term
Week 9 - Theoretical
Innovation management.
Week 10 - Practice
SWOT analysis and strategic road map creation application.
Week 11 - Theoretical
Success in innovation, cooperation in innovation, the benefits to business of innovative ideas and perspectives.
Week 12 - Theoretical
The relationship with R & D and innovation management.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Innovation and competition.
Week 14 - Final Exam
Final exam.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Assignment310236
Midterm Examination19110
Final Examination111112
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)100
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes