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With the support of an academic supervisor, students engage with a real-world enterprise project, whether their own business, sharing a third-party start-up or business development project, providing counselling/consultancy support or managing an innovative project within an established organisation. The focus is on experiential learning and the broad learning aim is the application, contextualisation and critical evaluation of knowledge of entrepreneurial behaviour and process, enterprise skills, learning and enterprise support. The project is supported by a series of topic seminars and action learning sets.

The Sem2 learning is largely student-directed, with the direct involvement of private or third sector collaborating organisations, visits and invitations to chosen “enablers” and guest speakers or advisors, plus interaction and advice to and from peers.

On successful completion of the module students should be able to:

1. Have an integrative understanding of the generic challenges in entrepreneurial processes, innovation and change (PLO2).
2. Have a critical understanding of the key ”soft” skills required for developing and managing entrepreneurial processes, innovation and change; the key concepts of entrepreneurial behaviour and the application of both hard and soft skills to the growing/improving of commercial or social enterprises (PLO1).
3. Apply the core concepts and processes of action learning to entrepreneurial contexts (PLO4).
4. Evaluate how enterprise policy, available support structures and appropriate “enablers” are identified and channelled to add value to organisations (PLO3).
5. Have developed communication and literacy skills through social processes of interviewing, negotiation and persuasion, conducting of primary and secondary research, participation in seminars and tutorials, preparation of a conceptual paper, maintenance of a learning log, production of a critical reflection, and making an assessed presentation (PLO6).
6. Have enhanced independent and cooperative learning and workingcapabilities through the planning and execution of an investigative project, personal management of time, research and writing; working with others in the development and execution of a complex and challenging project in a social context (PLO5).

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.