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Unit description

Provides students with the insights and skills entrepreneurs require to create new ventures. Introduces the process of identifying new business opportunities and informs how to select a suitable business model, protect key intellectual properties, and adopt an effective organisational structure. The unit concludes with strategies to sustain growth and options to harvest new ventures.

Unit content

Module 1: Introduction to new venture creation

Module 2: Recognising and seizing opportunities

Module 3: Business models for the 21st-century and beyond

Module 4: Knowledge protection and organisation structures

Module 5: Managing growth, crises, and recovery

Module 6: Harvest options and strategies

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1assess and identify opportunities for new venture creation
2develop a business model suitable for new ventures
3identify intellectual properties of strategic importance to new ventures and ways of protecting them
4recommend organisational structures and strategies to manage new ventures' growth and harvest options.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. assess and identify opportunities for new venture creation
  2. develop a business model suitable for new ventures
  3. identify intellectual properties of strategic importance to new ventures and ways of protecting them
  4. recommend organisational structures and strategies to manage new ventures' growth and harvest options.

Teaching and assessment

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