Overview
Date published: Oct 2013
Core activities: 2.5 hours
Additional activities: 6 hours
Researchers taking this course will learn about entrepreneurial motivation, appetite for risk, skills and capabilities, and what makes entrepreneurs successful. They will also get a good overview of how an entrepreneurial journey fits together, and how their own journey might take shape.
Syllabus
- Module 1: Entrepreneurship in the academic context
- Module 2: An introduction to entrepreneurial motivation
- Module 3: Characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
- Module 4: Entrepreneurship and you
Author, revised and first editions: Dr Adam J Bock
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Edinburgh and a serial entrepreneur in the medical field
Author, first edition: Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam
Cambridge University, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Reviewer, first edition: Professor Gerard George
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and also Deputy Dean at the Imperial College Business School