Schedule Overview

Assessment

About this Class 📌

This module provides students with intermediate/advanced conceptual and practical learning in entrepreneurship and innovation in different specialist sectors.

Through a mix of study activities and self-selected experiential projects students will develop independent research and online collaborative skills necessary to engage in enterprise and innovation practices in new and existing organisations.

The module encourages students to articulate how entrepreneurship and innovation can be used to satisfy individual goals, while contributing to solving societal problems in an ethical and sustainable manner.

Expectations and Learning Outcomes

Key Knowledge and Understanding**:**

• Create and manage sustainable forms of innovative and entrepreneurial ventures within a range of specialist areas, such as Engineering, science and information technology; Creative, leisure and cultural industries; Health and social care.
• Research entrepreneurship and innovations within a specialist real world setting, recognising that specialist areas have to be explored at multiple levels of analysis.
• Apply core theories, concepts and frameworks of innovation and entrepreneurship to understand the strategy, process and operations of enterprises at different stages of their life cycle.
• Discuss the impact of innovation and entrepreneurship on society, both at a conceptual and a practical level, including ethics and sustainability, economic and social benefits to you, the economy and local communities.

COGNITIVE SKILLS:

• Distinguish the key components of innovative and entrepreneurial processes and practices kinds (i.e. in comparison with more routinized approaches)
• Distinguish the responsibilities of founders, managers, employees and directors within particular types of sustainable enterprises and innovations, including roles and rewards.
• Use concepts from enterprise and innovation to critically analyse and evaluate solutions to a variety of societal challenges