The course will enable students:
- to understand the essence of basic concepts of international venture business; to study classifications of venture enterprises and venture capital funds, to become familiar with organizational forms of venture entrepreneurship;
- to consider mechanisms of interaction of venture entrepreneurship subjects within the frameworks of the venture activity cycle;
- to analyze peculiarities of planning and organization of internal, external and "independent" ventures at industrial enterprises;
- to become familiar with prerequisites of venture business development in Ukraine as well as in the world;
- to develop skills for business presentations and writing of business plans for venture investors;
- to form the ability to search, evaluate and select potential individual and institutional investors by managers of innovative enterprises;
- to master skills in evaluation of cost-effectiveness of venture financing of projects and criteria of making decisions on expediency of projects implementation by venture investors.

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Vnture business: key terms and conditions. Planning of venture activity: search, selection and attraction of venture investors by managers of innovative enterprises, planning and forecasting of future cost of an enterprise attracting venture capital, investors’ exit strategies. Peculiarities of presentation and business plans development of a project for venture investors. Formation of venture enterprise capital structure. Organizing of venture capital activity: using of different venture financing schemes and forms of venture capital organizations. Motivation, control and regulation of venture capital activity: motivation schemes, trends and key indicators for monitoring stages of venture capital activity. Evaluation of efficiency of venture financing of projects.

Basic literature:
1. David Gladstone, Laura Gladstone. Venture Capital Handbook: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Raising Venture Capital, Revised and Updated Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall PTR, 2002. – 424p.
2. Kuzmin O.E., Lytvyn I.V., Ossik Yu.I. Venturing: teaching manual. – Karaganda, 2015. – 312 p.
3. Lytvyn I.V. Features of the functioning and monitoring of venture capital organizations: [monograph] / O. Ye. Kuzmin, I.V. Litvin, O.J. Suhorebska // Publisher "Liha- Press" - 2013. – 182p.
4. Lytvyn I.V. Venture business: teach. manual /O.Ye. Kuzmin, I.V. Lytvyn. - K: "Knowledge", 2012. - 350 p.
5. Lytvyn I.V. Venture Business: theoretical aspects and practice [teach. practical guide] / O.Ye. Kuzmin, I.V. Lytvyn. - Lviv, Lviv Polytechnic National University Publishing House, 2011. - 168p.

- Current control (30%): oral questioning, laboratory papers;
- Final control (70%): semester control (50% written and 20% oral component)