Module: BMA5110-20 Entrepreneurship

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Samuel Landry

Module Tutor Contact Details: s.landry@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

The focus of this module enables you to gain an overview of the entrepreneurial mindset. You will refine your knowledge of the approaches used by Entrepreneurs to leverage latent potential from the business environment by applying a range of business assessment models to your own ideas. This module is also designed to give you the opportunity to understand ‘what it is to be entrepreneurial’ by asking you to ‘move to action’ and will also provide opportunities for your CV development. This module aims to develop your creative capacity and help you to improve your business skills. You will also become critically aware of the most highly regarded talents in business today. The course also encourages you to collaborate with other students to build on strengths and to reflect on, analyse and learn from shared entrepreneurial experiences.

This module will develop the following graduate attributes:-

• Ethically aware, prepared for citizenship in a local, national and global context.

• Creative, able to solve problems by working across disciplines as professional or artistic practitioners.

• Employable, equipped with the skills necessary to flourish in the global workplace, able to work in and lead teams.

2.Outline syllabus

Organisations, both private and social, which innovate, are much more likely to create value. However, few new ventures are truly successful, and very few manage to grow and prosper. This course is therefore inspired by the work of leading authors in the domain of entrepreneurship in order to integrate the study of innovation and entrepreneurship to make success far more likely. The course will put greater emphasis on the practice of entrepreneurship and is applied in a broad context. This will include start-ups, SME’s, corporate organisations and public services. You will also learn about emerging technologies and economies and consider sustainability and development issues.

Key blocks of learning: entrepreneurial goals and context, recognising the opportunity, finding the resources, developing the venture, creating value.

3.Teaching and learning activities

Contact time: 1 x 1hr lecture, plus 1 x 1hr workshop and a 2hrs seminar. You will also be able to add to your entrepreneurial skills set and experience by conceiving, designing, and executing an entrepreneurial activity of your own and use this as the basis of assessment.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Individual Report: Business Assessment of Entrepreneurship Case (3,000 words)

• % Weighting: 60%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Group Presentation: Reflections on an Innovative fundraising event

• % Weighting: 40%