ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS

Course Description

The course introduces the students to the basic concepts in entrepreneurship, identification of business opportunities, business evaluation and analysis. It provides students with the skills needed to effectively identify, organize, develop, and manage own business ventures.

Course Objectives

The course aims to provide students with:

• Knowledge about the origins of entrepreneurship and an entrepreneur

• Knowledge about entrepreneurship development

• Insight on how to Identify, evaluate, and select business opportunities

• Skills to perform self-evaluation

• Knowledge on how to carry out feasibility and viability of an investment opportunity

• Insight to exploit the Entrepreneurial Environment provided by the political, socioeconomic and

• technological conditions

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course unit, the students will be able to:

i) Explain the origins of entrepreneurship and describe an entrepreneur

ii) Outline and explain the stages of Entrepreneurship Development

iii) Explain the barriers to Entrepreneurship

iv) Perform self evaluation to match business opportunities

v) Analyze the entrepreneurial environment

vi) ensure start-up, survival and sustainability of an investment opportunity

vii) Identify their own personal entrepreneurial potential, and competences

viii) Identify, and exploit business opportunities and resources