2016-2017
Entrepreneurship
Category: Business and Management
Code: IS 147
Level: 4
Credits: 15
Teaching Pattern
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Seminar
2 x 3hrs
3 x 3hrs
3 x 3hrs
3 x 3hrs
Tutorial
1 x 20mins
*you will be expected to do approximately 118 hours of independent study in addition to the above formal
teaching hours over the 4 weeks.
Outline
How do you turn a great idea into a viable business? What do Richard Branson, Walt Disney and
Mark Zuckerberg have in common? This module introduces you to who entrepreneurs are, what
they do and how they do it, and explores the managerial issues that people face in the process of
starting an enterprise.
Learning Outcomes
Work in a team, at a group level, to develop capabilities to analyse the dynamics of team roles,
leadership and effective team operation
Contribute towards understanding of a reflective and systematic approach to their personal
development.
Assessed Learning Outcomes
Critically discuss concepts related to entrepreneurship
Analyse various forms of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ventures and evaluate the issues
related to venturing process
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of how to identify and pursue an entrepreneurial
opportunity with a team of peers
Develop and plan a business model.
Work in a team, at a group level, to develop capabilities to analyse the dynamics of team roles,
leadership and effective team operation
Contacts
Stefano Denicolai
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E-mail: [email protected]
Phone :
Indicative Reading List
Bessant and Tidd, 2007. Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
Baron Robert and Scott Shane. 2008. Entrepreneurship. A process perspective, South-Western Cangage Learning.
Kaplan 2007. Patterns of Entrepreneurship. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Storey, D.J. and Greene, F.J. 2010. Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Pearson Education Limited.
University Library
The Library,
University of Sussex,
Brighton
BN1 9QL
Phone: 01273 678163
[email protected]
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SUMMER Session 2