Business Model Innovation

Course Director: Anna Nyquist, anna-maria.nyquist@indek.kth.se
Examiner: Valentina Tartari, Valentina.Tartari@hhs.se

Please note that the number of participants in this course is limited to 30 students.

Background
Business Model Innovation takes a practical approach to understanding, designing, and testing business models. It includes analyzing existing business models, developing a business model for a new startup venture, and testing business model building blocks. The course offers you the opportunity to develop a unique skill set that has helped many leading entrepreneurs and enterprises. Business model innovation is at the center of value creation and many leading companies and social ventures owe much of their success to business model innovation.

Content
This Business Model Innovation course covers:

• Business model history and significance
• Business model canvas development and refinement
• Customer development process
• Lean startup methodology
• Financial drivers of business models

Teaching and learning activities

The course will mix and match lectures with debates, discussions and learning activities by the students as well as leaders in the field.

Additional information

This is an SSE open elective course taught at KTH, offered for students from six different universities. The number of available seats is limited. The course is offered within the framework for Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES).

Responsible institution: The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Please note that this course will use the SSES Canvas instead of SSE Canvas. All registered students will receive an email with login information to the SSES Canvas approximately 1,5 weeks before their course starts.

All registration queries should be addressed to SSES via info@sses.se

Course administrator: marianne.castren@sses.se

Upon completing the course, students should be able to:

• Explain the importance of business models to value creation and new venture success in today's economy
• Describe, compare, and critically examine different business model frameworks
• Analyze and critically evaluate business models used by actual ventures
• Construct and present a business model for an innovative and viable new venture
• Design and conduct tests for different business model building blocks, iterating based on market feedback and test results

Special eligibility requirements: students must have a minimum of 120 ECTS credits.

Will be announced in connection to the start of the course and communicated to enrolled participants.

Grades and form of assessment

Students will be required to satisfactory complete all of the course assignments in order to receive a passing grade. The student's grade will depend on the following:

• Written and oral assignments (individual and group work)
• Contribution in class/ group activities

Grading for courses offered within the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES)

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES) is a collaboration of six schools in the Stockholm area. In order to harmonize the SSE grading scale with that of the other participating schools and to adapt to the pedagogical design of the courses, SSE has decided to use the following grading scale:

90-100 Excellent
75-89 Very good
60-74 Good
50-59 Pass
0-49 Fail

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Have you been granted educational support because of a documented disability? If so, please contact the course director as soon as possible so that adequate accommodations can be made.

Contact specialneeds@hhs.se if you have questions about being granted educational support or need a copy of your educational support certificate.

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