Introduction

Please note that this is a preliminary course description. The final version will be published in June 2026.

In this course, students will gain real-life experience creating new ventures. The course will equip students with state-of-the-art entrepreneurial tools and methods to form entrepreneurial teams, develop, validate, and assess business ideas, and understand how to build a viable business model around them. Students will develop their new ventures in collaboration with the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Oslo. The skills acquired will enable students to start their own ventures, commercialize innovations, or establish a new line of business within an established company.

Course content

  • Founders, teams, and ideas
  • The idea-generation process
  • Customer engagement and feedback
  • AI enabled business model generation
  • Building products and services
  • Engaging with entrepreneurial ecosystems
  • Entrepreneurial resourcefulness and raising resources
  • Pitching and storytelling

Disclaimer

This is an excerpt from the complete course description for the course. If you are an active student at BI, you can find the complete course descriptions with information on eg. learning goals, learning process, curriculum and exam at portal.bi.no. We reserve the right to make changes to this description.