Two activities:

Activity: 1 "An entrepreneur I know". Interview an entrepreneur, transcribe the interview and produce a report linking the interview to theory. 1300 word report (excluding transcription) (50%) (LO 1,2,3)

Activity 2: Source, cost and compare potential premises with associated overheads for a particular business activity. To critically reflect on what went well/what didn't go well and why. 1300 word research document (50%) (LO 1,2,3,4)

- The contrast between managing in the Corporate and running an SME -`Big profits from Small Companies'; functional knowledge introduced previously will now be contextualised to the small business environment - form of the organisation, finance, marketing, operations, employees; Intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship
- The entrepreneurial personality vs. the entrepreneurial mindset (entrepreneurial traits and characteristics including attitude to risk, creativity and innovation, decisiveness, tenacity, perseverance, independence and personal goals, locus of control, nAch and other factors vs. entrepreneurial learning, reaction to `failure')
- Small business success and failure
- Entrepreneurial teams
- The UK business support environment and small business policy
- `Big Society' and social enterprise
- Managing growth and sustainability
- Experiencing business - (triple bottom line people, planet, profit)

Full time: 12 teaching weeks 3 hours per week
A mix of lectures/ tutorials/ large and small group activities, plus self directed learning, including accessing material on Blackboard. A significant part of this module will also be independent and group activity outside the university walls and interaction with guest speakers and community groups.

Achieved through typical activities (individual and group) such as:
- Individual psychometric profiling and critical examination of individual suitability for entrepreneurship
- Interviewing `An entrepreneur I know¿
- Success exercises
- Searching for and sourcing business premises
- Visiting business premises and evaluating their appropriateness for activity
- Costing for start-up
- Critical application and evaluation of individual and group theory to enterprise teams through group activities
- Visits: Local Chamber of commerce, local council economic development unit, university business incubators, business premises, science parks, charities/third sector

Libraries for textbooks and journals - specific enterprise journals to be indicated
Module website via Blackboard
Lecture notes and handouts
The Internet

Burns, P. (2011) Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 3rd Edition, Palgrave Macmillan
Deakins, D., Freel, M. (2009). Entrepreneurship and Small Firms, 5th Edition. McGraw Hill
Down, S. (2010) Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business SAGE London

1. DEMONSTRATE A SYSTEMATIC UNDERSTANDING AND CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF `SUCCESS', ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVES, OBJECTIVE/SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS OF PROGRESS AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS. (Analysis, Knowledge & Understanding)
2. TO ASSESS AND EVALUATE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS AND THE TYPES OF CHARACTERISTICS APPLICABLE TO THOSE CONTEXTS; FOR EXAMPLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP VS. INTRAPRENEURSHIP; `FOR-PROFIT' VS. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE; INDIVIDUAL VS. TEAM ENTERPRISE. (Knowledge & Understanding, Learning)
3. COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THE APPLICATION OF APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES LEARNT WITHIN A PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL FRAMEWORK PRODUCING AN APPROPRIATE REPORT. (Application, Communication, Reflection)
4. TO BE ABLE TO RESEARCH ASPECTS OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROCESS, WITHIN A PROFESSIONAL AND ETHICAL FRAMEWORK, CULMINATING IN A RESEARCH DOCUMENT. (Application, Learning, Reflection)