Module Description
This advanced 10 credit module provides students
with the frameworks and the skills to lead innovative projects and ventures
within an organisational setting and a critical understanding of economic,
sociological, psychological and managerial theories of enterprise creation and
development and their application in the world of business and in the wider
economy. The focus is on the formation of new ventures, product/process/service/business
model innovation, and their impact on economic and social development in
different environments.
Aims
This
module provides the necessary theoretical framework for the study and the
practice of entrepreneurship, defined as new venture creation and innovative
growth relating to different types of organisations and environments. The
module will provide the critical, theoretical underpinning for the study and
investigation of enterprise development and the three critical components of
entrepreneurship:
Entrepreneurial People.
Entrepreneurial Organisations.
Entrepreneurial Environments.
It
will also provide insights into and models for the practice of entrepreneurship
and innovation in different organisational and economic environments, much of
which is concerned with the process of entrepreneurship and the development of
appropriate business models.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of different theoretical approaches to business and new venture creation, growth and maturity in different spatial contexts.
2. Explain conceptual issues on entrepreneurship and its links with innovation clearly and concisely and how these concepts help us better understand economic and social development.
3. Evaluate and explain the relationship between different types of new ventures, as in new small firms, corporate entrepreneurship, new ventures within public and not-for-profit organisations in different countries and develop relevant business models for their growth.
4. Develop realistic ideas for engaging with new business creation and growth in different environments.
5. Identify opportunities for and develop an innovative venture or project within an organisational setting’.
6. Be familiar with synchronous and asynchronous forms of online and face to face (in campus ) learning and communication together with techniques for research-based business report and academic essay writing .
- Module Supervisor: Jay Mitra