• None.

• None.

• New Venture Creation and Enterprise Skills (Taught)

• To provide students with an advanced understanding of, and practical skills relating to, key processes associated with starting, operating and growing a successful entrepreneurial venture, including its financial dimensions.

• The entrepreneurial process and new venture creation
• Creativity, innovation and idea generation
• The opportunity business model
• Competitors and the external environment
• Strategies for sustainable competitiveness
• Entrepreneurial marketing
• Entrepreneurial finance theory and raising capital
• Accounts interpreting financial performance
• Building an entrepreneurial organisation
• Management team and leadership
• Managing enterprise growth
• Learning from entrepreneurs experience

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the module students should have:
• an advanced understanding of the concepts associated with recognising and developing entrepreneurial opportunities;
• a critical appreciation of the theories and tools relevant to entrepreneurial strategies, management team formulation and managing growth;
• an advanced understanding of the role and impact of investors in entrepreneurial firms;
• a nuanced understanding of the challenges involved in new venture creation and achievement of sustainability.

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of the module, students should be able:
• to prepare a commercially viable business plan;
• to critically evaluate business plans.

Key Skills:

• Written communication;
• practical planning processes;
• organising and time management;
• problem solving and analysis;
• computer literacy;
• data gathering.

• The module is delivered via online learning, divided up into study weeks with specially produced resources within each week. Resources vary according to the learning outcomes but normally include: video content, directed reading, reflection through activities, opportunities for self-assessment and peer-to-peer learning within a tutor-facilitated discussion board. Tutors provide feedback on formative work and facilitate discussion board communication as well as being available for individual consultation as necessary (usually by email and Skype).
• The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

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