MN52094: Fundamentals of entrepreneurship
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRG 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Entrepreneurial Venture Report (CWRG 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
At the end of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate the conditions for entrepreneurial impact.
- Explain entrepreneurial opportunities as unfolding at the interface between purposeful individuals and environments.
- Analyse the entrepreneurial process from multiple theoretical perspectives and in different environments.
- Reflect on the entrepreneurial attitudes, skills and behaviours of individuals pursuing novel opportunities when dealing with uncertainty and limited resources.
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| Synopsis: | Explore the key concepts and theory of entrepreneurship. You will learn to:
- Recognise the factors that influence the entrepreneurial process at multiple levels (the individual entrepreneur, the team, the organisation, and the socio-economic environment).
- Analyse the challenges of entrepreneurial action in different contexts and types of organisations.
- Reflect on the experience of real-life entrepreneurs as role models.
- Advance entrepreneurial intent and awareness.
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| Content: | - Entrepreneurial action
- Entrepreneurial opportunity
- Entrepreneurial process
- Resource acquisition
- Context for entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship as design
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| Course availability: |
MN52094 is Compulsory on the following courses:
School of Management
MN52094 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
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