Special Session: Taking the Entrepreneurship Route

Special Session: Taking the Entrepreneurship Route

Course description

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This is a special session of the course "Taking the Entrepreneurship Route"

This course gives aspiring young entrepreneurs a clear understanding of the path of entrepreneurship, the risks and rewards of being an entrepreneur, as well as the business start-up process. Young men and women will benefit from enhancing their entrepreneurial mindset and developing skills to identify and act on opportunities.

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the risks and rewards of taking the entrepreneurship route;

Identify the role of an entrepreneur;

Conceptualize entrepreneurship as a process;

Formulate a Business Opportunity Assessment to decide whether or not to act on an identified business idea; and

Produce a Business Model Canvas to document a company's value proposition, infrastructure, customers and finances.

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COURSE CERTIFICATION

Participants who meet the course requirements will receive a Certificate of Completion issued in electronic format.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Lecture 1

Youth employment and Entrepreneurship (L251)

Case Study 1

Overview of Youth Employment (C038)

Lecture 2

Being an Entrepreneur (L252)

Case Study 2

Being an Entrepreneur (C039)

Lecture 3

The Entrepreneurship Process (L253)

Case Study 3

The Entrepreneurship Process (C040)

Entrepreneur Readiness Self-Assessment

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Tutor: Valentina Saponara
Tutor: Kritee Sharrma