Creating a New Business - BIO0267

Assessment 1: Other

Activities providing opportunities for formative assessment will generally be integrated into the teaching and learning process and apply to all components of summative assessment.  The nature of the formative assessment tasks used will be at the discretion of the tutor, to include for example, workshop exercises, quizzes, group discussions.  

Other

Assessment 1: Presentation

Group presentation pitch of a business idea as part of a ‘demo day event’.

Presentation

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

<p>In undertaking this module, you will explore the theory and practices that inform and enable business start-up and small enterprise development. We will follow the entrepreneurial journey in four phases; creativity and conceptualising the business; understanding context; opportunity spotting and scoping; and business model development. We will use case studies to explore entrepreneurial practices in a variety of contexts. You will appreciate the personal and contextual drivers and challenges faced by those motivated set up enterprises. You will also experiment with opportunity spotting and the formulation of a business model, thus understanding the practice and theory of new venture creation, from ideation to creating a business enterprise.</p>

Huddersfield Business School

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BIO0267 - Creating a New Business

Creating a New Business

Understand creativity and venture creation as a process, at a micro-level.

Generate and modify a business model to inform new venture creation.

Analyse the contribution of the entrepreneur in new venture creation.	

Utilise relevant theory in order to simulate and evaluate opportunity spotting and new venture creation.

Demonstrate critical awareness of the impact of different contexts in which business start-up and small enterprise operates.

Critically evaluate the prospects of new ventures and small enterprises in terms of economic, social and environmental impact.