Business and entrepreneurship in power engineering

Course title: Business and entrepreneurship in power engineering

Code: FEIT04L029

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 2+1+0+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Taken course: Management engineering and economics

Course goals/Competences: Obtaining knowledge for motivation, creativity and innovation's importance for development of the business and entrepreneurship, with the emphasize for the power engineering. Obtaining knowledge about current regulations and simulative mechanisms for development of the business and entrepreneurship.

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum: Definition and the goals of the business. Law regulations for development of the business and entrepreneurship in EU and R. Macedonia. Motivators and prime movers for creation of the business and entrepreneurship's stimulus.  Methods and sources for financing own business. Development and selection of the business idea. Creativity. Models for regional development and forecating of the business survival. Structural relationships in small and middle companies dealing with engineering. Business strategy. Key Performance Index. E-marketing and e-business - advantages and dis-advantages. Clusters, innovations and entrepreneurship in power engineering. Entrepreneurship in transitional environment. Models of the Public Private Partnership. Market analysis (study case): selling energy, electrical equipment trading, designing, supervision, revision and consulting services in power engineering, etc.

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