Entrepreneurship (Team Enterprise and Innovation) BSc (Hons)

Inspired by the Finnish Team Academy approach, this non-lecture-based experiential learning course is suited to those who want an alternative to a traditional degree and are looking to develop and practice entrepreneurial skills.If you have ever wanted to strike out and set up your own business then this ground-breaking course will show you how to do it. With no lectures or exams this programme is built around working in a team, launching your business ideas and developing your enterprise. In your first few weeks, you’ll form your team business with other students and work on real projects with the potential to generate income while learning.Based on four themes of learning, you will learn to develop key skills:- personal skills: self-learning, taking responsibility and adapting to new situations- business skills: taking the initiative, making things happen, networking, managing risk-taking- teamwork skills: learning and sharing, reflecting, communicating, negotiating- innovation skills: identifying opportunities, creative problem solving, assessing value creation.While this course follows the Finnish ‘Team Academy’ philosophy, the emphasis of our course is on nurturing innovation in students. Our research centre, the Centre for Change, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (CENTRIM), works with partners to produce groundbreaking ideas to improve innovation, entrepreneurship and change management.The expertise developed in our CENTRIM research will feed into this course, enriching its scope and ensuring the latest concepts in innovation are passed onto you.This is a new course for September 2021.