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A Beginner’s Guide to Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship is a mindset, a personal journey for a diversity of people looking to make a positive impact on society.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Entrepreneurship and Innovation

  • 3 weeks

  • 3 hours per week

  • Accreditation available

  • Digital certificate when eligible

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    3 weeks
  • Weekly study

    3 hours
  • Languages

    English, Español, Italiano, Français, PortuguêsEnglish, Español
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Gain the skills to go from budding entrepreneur to leading innovator

There is more to entrepreneurship than simply launching a new business. It drives industry innovation, improves economies, and fosters career growth.

On this online course from the University of Strathclyde, learn the ways entrepreneurship is important to you and your community, and why adopting an entrepreneurial mindset is key to career success.

Whether you want to change something about your current organisation, are on the hunt for a new venture to support, or are hoping to start your own, you’ll gain the tools you need to be a successful entrepreneur.

Kickstart your entrepreneurial journey, from mindset to action

Build your entrepreneurship framework and be able to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is an entrepreneur? What is an entrepreneurial mindset? And what role does innovation play in entrepreneurship?

You’ll be asked to self-reflect on your entrepreneurial mindset and identify opportunities of your own.

Elevate your ideas with innovation and strong business strategies

On this course, you’ll utilise real-world case studies and testimonies, dive deeper into entrepreneurial processes and master innovation concepts. You’ll learn more about the stakeholders impacted throughout the entrepreneurial journey and how to develop growth strategies in a globalised world.

Learn from experts at the University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde’s Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship is a world-leading organisation for entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy. Their experts and entrepreneurs will be there to guide you throughout the course.

In just three weeks, you’ll be able to assess new business ideas, harness innovation, and make all your ideas possible.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 seconds What is Entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship is about entrepreneurs. It’s about us. It’s about you. It’s about people with different and diverse origins, different and diverse identities and different and diverse aspirations. They dynamically identify and create opportunities and allocate resources to enact them in order to create value. So it is about opportunities. Entrepreneurs see needs in societies that they need to address or they provide a solution to particular problem. and entrepreneurs do that in order to create value. And here we’re not just focusing on economic value, but we are focusing on every sort of value entrepreneurs can bring to society, to the environment and to local communities.

Skip to 0 minutes and 57 seconds We are surrounded by small scale activities, projects and businesses that someone I sought off and brought to the world. This course is about exploring your potential to take your own idea forward We will discuss contemporary entrepreneurship and how this might fit you. This is not a course about basic business It starts before this with how you see the world and how you assess what opportunities are right for you. It is about a mindset. This course enables you to have a deep understanding of entrepreneurship journey starting of yourself. Imagine the impact you can have on the community and how you can develop yourself, and your project builds a better understanding of community context, the diversity of societies and of approaches.

Skip to 1 minute and 45 seconds I am really looking forward to sharing this with you all.

Syllabus

  • Week 1

    What is entrepreneurship?

    • Welcome to the course

      We are delighted you have joined us! In this section you will find out about the course overall, how you will learn, and meet your educators.

    • Reframing entrepreneurship

      Entrepreneurship is about people who want to make an positive impact. Entrepreneurship is a personal journey and that it is more than creating a new venture.

    • Entrepreneurship mindset

      Entrepreneurship is a mindset. Creativity, value-oriented innovative activities are essential and go beyond the start-up of a new venture.

    • Entrepreneurial diversities

      In a Globalising society, entrepreneurship is enacted by diverse people in many different places. The diversity of society also affects the diversity of entrepreneurship, as an economic activity open to all.

    • End of week task

      Key takeaways and Quiz

  • Week 2

    Entrepreneurship processes

    • Welcome to week 2

      Welcome to the second week of the course. This week, we will focus on what innovative entrepreneurial practices are, and on the resources that entrepreneurs need to make a difference in society.

    • Innovative entrepreneurship activities

      Innovation matters for entrepreneurship and the impact of entrepreneurship can be broader than the business itself, and also have social and environmental value.

    • Social enterprises

      Most entrepreneurs are not primarily motivated by profit. Instead, many entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses that address social problems and social needs .

    • End of week task

      Key takeaways and Quiz.

  • Week 3

    Taking your entrepreneurship self to the next level

    • Welcome to week 3

      Welcome to the third and final week of the course. This week, we will explore the potential of digitalisation and of an international mindset to bring your entrepreneurial journey to the next level.

    • Digital Entrepreneurship

      In the contemporary world, boundaries are changing. Entrepreneurs can think beyond boundaries and open new opportunities by adopting a digital-savvy and international-oriented mindset.

    • International Entrepreneurship

      Globalisation is connecting the world more than ever. Problems and solutions increasingly cross national borders, creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs.

    • End of week task

      Key takeaways and Quiz

    • Conclusion of the course

      Conclusion of the course

Who is this accredited by?

The CPD Certification Service
The CPD Certification Service:

The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.

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On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Explore entrepreneurship from different perspectives
  • Investigate the role of the entrepreneur in entrepreneurship
  • Explore entrepreneurial processes
  • Identify and develop growth strategy in the digital and internationalising world
  • Reflect on the social and environmental impact of entrepreneurship
  • Reflect on one’s own entrepreneurial mindset and opportunities to act entrepreneurially

Who is the course for?

Develop your entrepreneurial self by discovering what entrepreneurship really is.

No prior knowledge is needed to take this course.

Who will you learn with?

Who developed the course?

University of Strathclyde

The University of Strathclyde is a leading international technological university located in Glasgow, Scotland’s biggest city, committed to useful learning.

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