Growth & Employment Platform. Olav Jull Sørensen: ojs@business.aau.dk. Aalborg University (four full days)

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1 NARRATIVE ACTIVITY COMPLETION REPORT 1 ACTIVITY FACTS Name of Platform South Partner Institution Activity name Main responsible resource person(s) for activity from South partner institution 2 Main responsible resource person(s) for activity from Danish university 3 Workplace of Danish resource person(s) Start and end of implementation (dd/mm/yy) Growth & Employment Platform SUA Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a methodological perspective Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula dwn@business.aau.dk Olav Jull Sørensen: ojs@business.aau.dk Aalborg University (four full days) ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION Brief description of planned activity 4 Purpose To give PhD-students insights into entrepreneurship and innovation and, at the same time, provide them with skills on methodology: how to conduct research on entrepreneurs. Content A total of 17 sessions, including Entrepreneurship and Development (2); Creativity (4): GVC and Entrepreneurship and Government-Business Relations (2); Concepts and tools for entrepreneurships (4); How entrepreneurial are you and meeting an entrepreneur (1); Methodology (2). All students will have to do an assignment (5-10 pages), including interviewing an entrepreneur. The certificate will be issued when the assignment is submitted and to our Contribution to research capacity building Indicators satisfaction. Two young scholars (postdoc Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula and lecturer Betty Waized) from SUA were involved in the planning and the teaching of the sessions. *Students were asked to be on time and to be their all times. The 21 students lived up to this. Other indicators are from the assessment (written), which were very 1 Must be filled and submitted to Platform Secretariat no later than 2 weeks upon completion of activity. 2 All responsible parties must sign Activity Completion Report before submission. 3 All responsible parties must sign Activity Completion Report before submission. 4 Use LFA (and/or Monitoring Matrix) as a point of departure, where relevant

2 Other relevant details/comments positive. Number of participants Target We had three PhD-students 2 from the BSU-programme and 1 under the support of a different project. We had one MSc graduate in addition to 17 MBA-students that could benefit from the course as they were to write their thesis. Results The students were according to their assessments very satisfied especially did they like the sessions on creativity a new Describe/explain deviations from planned activity (timing, number of participants, content of activity, venue, etc.) Main lessons learned (list 3-5 issues) Suggestions for follow up activities topic/world for them. We did not have deviations from planned activities except that we wanted to have the course running together with USDM, but they could not participate in the planned week and no students from USDM came to the course. 1. Not easy to organize an activity together with two universities so that all calendars meet. 2. As the PhD-students do not study the topic (entrepreneurship) as part of their thesis, we took up some topics that more students could use, for example, creativity; GVC, and Methodology and discussed these topics in an entrepreneurial perspective. 3. It is recommendable that PhD-courses have methodological sessions that relate to the topic in focus in our case how to study entrepreneurship. 4. We did not plan to give students a lot of readings beforehand. This is not necessarily good, but it has the advantage that the teachers are not caught in the middle and thus can better plan their lectures, when you know that nobody has read the literature beforehand. The assignment following the course also makes them read the materials ex-post. Furthermore, we asked them to plan the reading of the literature on topics that were most relevant to them. 5. We used dropbox to provide students with materials. The advantage is that now they can access the materials whenever they want/need (Daniel Mushi s idea) Informal: The PhD-students can contact us if they want to have a topic deepened. Formal: Repeat the course

3 Activity Completion Report submitted by: NAME CONTACT DETAILS 5 SIGNATURE OJS@BUSINESS.AAU.DK OLAV JULL SØRENSEN Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula DWN@BUSINESS.AAU.DK Date of Signature: Where relevant please enclose: a) List of participants/attendance register b) Program/course outline c) Publications produced by the activity Appendix 1: List of participants Participants in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation course S/N NAME STATUS 1 Elida K.S.Busagala MSc Graduate 2 Geraldine Arbogast Rasheli PhD student 3 Siwel Nyamba PhD student 4 Nicholaus Musimu Kuboja PhD student 5 Stanley S. Nangawe MBA student 6 Amani A. Ngogo MBA student 7 Grace Tarimo MBA student 8 Christopher A. Msongore MBA student 9 Victor J. Kitambi MBA student 10 Deodatus Mulokozi MBA student 11 Christa Muzanila MBA student 12 Evance B. Mnembuka MBA student 13 Appolo B. Msitta MBA student 14 Ofroo Sanga MBA student 15 Mkopi Maulidi MBA student 5 Minimum address and phone number for all signatories.

4 16 Jeremiah Hussein MBA student 17 Chuhila Edson MBA student 18 Amina Mtenda MBA student 19 Mlekwa Gwamaka MBA student 20 Iteba Edward MBA student 21 Nicetus S. Seluhinga MBA student

5 PhD course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Methodological Perspective: under SUA-BSU; June 11-14, Summary Evaluation A total of 20 participants attended the course, 17 filled the assessment forms, 3 were absent on the final session. The course was very well received, on a scale of 1-5, 1 being poor and 5 being excellent, 58.8% of the participants rated the course good (scored 4) while another 41.2% rated the course excellent (scored 5). Understanding creativity was the first most liked topic as 64.7% of the participants. Value chain and entrepreneurship was the most liked topic by 11.8% of the participants while Methodology in Entrepreneurship research, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, Entrepreneurship and innovation Development, and Marketing &Finance in Entrepreneurship were each the most liked topics by 5.9% of the participants. Introduction to creativity was the second most liked topic for 29.4% of the participants, Business Environment and Entrepreneurship, 23.5%; while Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Development, 11.8%; Methodology in Entrepreneurship research, and Marketing &Finance in Entrepreneurship were each the second most liked topic for 5.9% of the participants. Start-Up and Business Planning was the third most liked topic by 23.5% of the participants, while Methodology in Entrepreneurship research and Business Environment and Entrepreneurship were each the third most liked by 11.8% of the participants. Introduction to creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Concepts, and Marketing &Finance in Entrepreneurship were each the third most liked topic for 5.8% of the participants. Understanding creativity was the most liked topic because the participants felt it was relatively new to them compared to other topics and interesting as well. About 71% of the participants felt no component of entrepreneurship and innovation was missing from the course, while 11.8% felt qualitative sample selection methods was missing. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods in entrepreneurship and a field trip were each mentioned as the missing components by 5.8% of the participants. Suggested improvement to make the course more relevant to participants studies and work included allocating more time %; include more real cases and field visits %; more audio visual and contextual examples -5.9%; and the course be announced earlier 5.9%. All participants said they would recommend the course to their friends, the reasons for this included the opportunity to learn something new %; change mindset -23.5%; practical course that is useful in real life 23.5%; and improve research skills %.

6 More than 40% of the participants said they were going to use the insight gained in their everyday life, work and studies; and slightly more than a third of the participants (35.3%) reported they were going to use the insights gained in self employment. About 11.8% of the participants said they were going to use the insights gained on their thesis while the remaining 11.8% said they were going to use the insights on training others. About 23.5% of the course participants were PhD students or young staff members while the other 76.5% were master s level students.

7 Time Table for SUA-BSU-PhD-Course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Methodological Perspective: June 11-14, 2013 Date Time Lecturer Focus Literature Tuesday Olav Jull Sørensen, Daniel Wilson Introduction to the PhD-course Ndyetabula, Christian Byrge 10:00-10:15 Tea Break Tuesday Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula Entrepreneurship and Innovation I: The concepts Deakens & Freel, ch Tidd & Bessant, ch 1. Iversen et al 2011; Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship 12:15-13:15 Lunch Break Tuesday Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula/Olav Jull Sørensen/Betty Waized. Guest Entrepreneur: Eli Furaha Entrepreneurship and Innovation II: The practice 16:00-16:15 Tea Break Tuesday Olav Jull Sorensen Entrepreneurship/Innovation and Development I *Test: Are you an Entrepreneur? *The Case of EF Obligatory literature *Deakens & Freel, ch *GEM-Studies 2012 *Sørensen :30 Olav Jull Sorensen Entrepreneurship/Innovation and Development II Group work: Entrepreneurship and Culture 10:30-10:45 Tea Break Betty Waized Business Environment and Entrepreneurship 12:15-13:15 Lunch Break 13:15-15:15 Betty Waized and Daniel Wilson Start-Up and Business Planning Ndyetabula *Deakens&Freel, ch *The Case of EF 15: Tea Break Christian Byrge Introduction to Creativity Common Dinner Christian Byrge Theoretical Perspectives on Creativity Video++ Thursday Christian Byrge Enhancing Creativity

8 10:30-10:45 Tea Break Thursday Olav Jull Sørensen Value chain and Entrepreneurship/Innovation Sørensen (2011) Sturgeon et all (2005) 12:15-13:15 Lunch Break Thursday 13: Olav Jull Sorensen Government-Business Relations Sørensen (1994) 16:00-16:15 Tea Break Thursday Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula Marketing and Finance in Entrepreneurship Friday Olav Jull Sorensen How to Study Entrepreneurship and Innovation I 10:15-10:30 Tea Break Friday 10:30-12:15 Olav Jull Sorensen How to Study Entrepreneurship and Innovation II 12:15-13:15 Lunch Break Friday Christian Byrge/Olav Jull Sørensen/ Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Daniel Wilson Ndyetabula/Betty Waized Tea Break Friday Olav Jull Sørensen/ Daniel Wilson Summarizing and Evaluation Ndyetabula/Betty Waized Daniel Mushi, BSU-Coordinator Kuada (2012), part 2 Kuada (2012), Part 3