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This course aims to provide students interested in international business and venture creation with the knowledge and skills necessary for building and managing highly scalable, technology-based international new ventures - INVs (also called born global businesses). Skyscanner, Appointedd, Airbnb, Amazon, and Spotify are illustrative examples. INVs represent a growing type of high growth start-ups, which seeks to derive significant competitive advantage from the use of resources and the sale of outputs in multiple countries right from start. Their increasing prevalence and importance indicate a need for greater understanding of these new ventures. This course adopts a dual perspective. First, it enables students to develop the requisite capabilities for venturing internationally, and second, it explores the necessary tools, technologies and competencies required for successfully managing INVs.

Blended learning sessions consisting of 6 x 1 hour (online lectures), 4x2 hour (in-person workshops), 4 x 2 hour (student-led project group meetings) and 2x1 hour (tutorials).

Entry to an Honours programme in Business and Management or a GPA of 12 in the level 2 courses listed below for students taking an Honours programme in another subject:

■ MGT2010 - Business Decision Analysis

■ MGT2011 - Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

■ MGT2012 - Services and Operations Management

■ MGT2014 - Entrepreneurship

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1. Project Output (Other than dissertation); Group; 5-10 slides/pages; 25%; ILOs 1-4.

2. Oral assessment & presentation; Group; 3-minute pitch & 15-minute discussion; 25%; ILOs 1-4.

3. Written assignment; including essay; Individual; 1250 words; 50%; ILOs 4-5.

This course provides students interested in international business and venture creation, the knowledge and skills necessary for building and managing highly scalable, technology-based, international new ventures. 

The specific aims are:

■ To examine and evaluate the process of building technology-based INVs.

■ To systematically evaluate opportunity as it relates to INVs.

■ To conduct market analysis in order to validate business models and make foreign market entry decisions. 

■ To effectively work with others in a diverse and multicultural student entrepreneurial project team.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Explain both historical and recent drivers in technology-based (tech-based) INVs' formation.

2. Evaluate and analyse tech-based solution for a market problem.

3. Create a Business Model suitable for a tech-based INV start-up project.

4. Work effectively in teams to design & launch an MVP tech-based INV start-up project.

5. Critically reflect on own experience of participating in student entrepreneurial project teams.