Entrepreneurial Management

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• design and apply a rigorous method for testing and validating new entrepreneurial ideas.
• evaluate market opportunity, specifically in entrepreneurship;

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• identifying and evaluating entrepreneurial opportunity;
• prototyping, validation and initial market testing as applied to entrepreneurship.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use a wide range of information sources requiring the development of bibliographic skills;
• plan and control effectively for successful completion of a personal workload;
• communicate effectively, in both oral and written form, using and justifying argument within reports, presentations and debates.

• The nature of entrepreneurial management.
• The nature of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial behaviour.
• Understanding and identifying entrepreneurial opportunity.
• Prototyping and idea development .
• Validation and testing entrepreneurial ideas.
• Developing strategies for growth.
• The social dimension of entrepreneurship.
• Leadership and management for entrepreneurial enterprise.
• The concept of corporate entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

The teaching methods are primarily the lecture and seminar. Student participation, small group activities, short case studies and other teaching methods will be integrated in the lectures as warranted. Lectures will be supported by activity-based seminars and will include the use of videos, case studies, and guest speakers.

Learning activities include:

Lectures, activity-based seminars, case studies, private study and coursework.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Kirby (2003). Entrepreneurship. McGraw-Hill.

Burns (2016). Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Start up, growth and maturity. Palgrave Macmillan Limited.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External