Innovation, Technology and the Environment

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• the contextual factors (global and national) influencing innovation in an environmental context;
• the challenges and opportunities presented to entrepreneurs by the green agenda;
• the process of developing viable market opportunities based on energy and resource conservation issues.
• the nature of the entrepreneurial environment: as a complex, dynamic set of inter-relations between new markets, new technologies and new regulatory practices;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• recognise trends in the environmental context (policy, technology, economic/social) that present entrepreneurial opportunities;
• analyse the feasibility of implementing new technology opportunities in a sustainable context.
• analyse how new industry sectors have arisen in response to new trends;
• appraise the innovation challenges facing green entrepreneurs in a given industry setting;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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.