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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Demystifying Entrepreneurship: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Coventry University and Deakin University
While entrepreneurship is closely linked with the start-up process, risk and venture creation, this course provided learners with opportunities to widen their perspective on entrepreneurship. Learners explored how an enterprising skillset and mindset can be applied to a wide range of contexts and problems. Learners also investigated some of the myths and popular misconceptions about entrepreneurs, and the ways in which society and culture impacts on entrepreneurship.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Joan Lockyer
Deputy Director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship
Coventry University
Steve Jaynes
Lecturer on FutureLearn
Deakin University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate the differences between a wide range of entrepreneurial types
- Explore the range of roles and functions of the entrepreneur
- Identify a range of entrepreneurial characteristics
- Explore your own entrepreneurial mindset and characteristics
- Reflect upon what type of entrepreneur you are or would like to be
Syllabus
- Differentiate between entrepreneurship, enterprise and entrepreneurialism
- Explore different types of entrepreneur and entrepreneurial practice
- Explore entrepreneurial archetypes
- Consider the history and evolution of the entrepreneur: from economic construct to social construct
Issued on 18th February 2020
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