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Entrepreneurship

Course Subject Details

Credit points 15 credit points
Examination dates Refer to the Examination Timetable
Subject code 106ENT

Pre-requisites

Nil.

Overview

This core subject introduces participants to concepts and skills which would enable them create environments that foster intrapreneurial, entrepreneurial and innovative cultures in organisations. This subject also enables participants to analyse an organisation’s internal and external environments and their likely impact and to employ sound and creative concepts in forecasting possible future organisational and environmental states and associated opportunities and threats.

Content

  • Entrepreneuring and Innovation
  • Analysing Environments and Organisations
  • Forecasting Futures

The specific content is as follows:

  • Characteristics of entrepreneurial and innovative organisations
  • Strategies to develop entrepreneurial and innovative cultures
  • The nature of entrepreneurship
  • The personality characteristics, skills, attributes and behaviours of successful and effective entrepreneurs and innovators
  • Design, implementation and evaluation of innovative projects
  • Analysis and assessment of the general and specific external environment of an organisation
  • Analysis and assessment of the influence of the inter-relationships and interactions of subsystems in an organisation
  • Forecast purposes, systems and parameters
  • Designing and managing forecast programmes
  • Developing decision oriented forecasts
  • Evaluating forecast processes and programmes