Innosocial aspects of entrepreneurship

Innosocial aspects of entrepreneurship

Delivery institution

Faculty of Informatics
Co-Location Centre

Instructor(s):

Dr. Barbara Hegyi

Start date

1 October 2025

End date

15 December 2025

Study field

CHARM priority field

Study level

Study load, ECTS

6

Short description

Would you like to join a journey through the different aspects of social responsibility? Are you open to hearing more about the social impact of emerging innovations? Are you ready to work with enthusiastic fellow students who are not only engaged to find new market opportunities but would never miss analyzing the social responsibility side of their idea? If your answer is yes to the above questions, hurry up to join my the Innosocial aspects of entrepreneurship course which is open to all master students of ELTE! As designer and educator of this elective course, I am thrilled to learn your point of view! Come and help to detect how general misconceptions can be dissolved in relation to social impact and what kind of new paths in entrepreneurial education can be created!

Full description

The course aims not only to form the entrepreneurial mindset and innovative thinking of students but strives to highlight all the potential aspects of social responsibility when it comes to innovative ventures. In this experimental field, the course designer and educator cannot state general truths, just lead the way, on how students can detect facts, cases, and examples from the practices of tech companies. New processes in the economy initiate a shift in the goals of social and business ventures, business actors strive to do or show more in the field of social responsibility which leads to new phenomena in some sectors. CSR 2.0 recommendations appeared for new ventures in emerging tech fields on how to avoid the unintended bad usage of their solutions and cases show that more and more stakeholders expect transformational corporate social responsibility strategies from their partners in which strategic approach social responsibility elements are integrated parts of the business strategy, all the potential social aspects are embedded into the innovation processes. The short lecture parts are to initiate thought-provoking questions around the different dimensions of social responsibility, while the synchronous sessions’ methodology was designed to enable the most interactive and engaging atmosphere. The turbulent changes in the social, business and political environment offer us specific topics in the field of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in crisis situations. Through the introduced and later individually analysed cases students can have a better understanding of the two-faced CSR strategies and the pressing importance of the integrity of social responsibility elements in all business strategies. Participants are also expected to identify shifts in trends towards more responsible business models, uncovering misleading CSR strategies.

Course requirements

Completion of 60% of the assignments (individual idea presentation is mandatory) , soft pre-requisities : basic entrepreneurship/business skills.

Places available

25

Planned educational activities and teaching methods:

Short theoretical lectures, interactive hybrid seminars, built on active teamwork

Language

Assessment method

Final certification

Transcript of records

Modality

Learning management System in use

Contact hours per week for the student:

4×2 hours during the semester (blocked education)

Specific regular weekly teaching day/time

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