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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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ILO being assessed

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

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.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.