Entrepreneurship

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UNIT 1: ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY 2

MODULE 1: The Entrepreneurial Mindset 2
GENERAL OBJECTIVES 2
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 2
Content 2
RESOURCES 4
MODULE 2: The Entrepreneurial Process 6
GENERAL OBJECTIVES 6
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 6
CONTENT 6
RESOURCES 8

MODULE 3: Creativity and Innovation 9

GENERAL OBJECTIVES 9
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES 9
CONTENT 9
RESOURCES 10

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UNIT 1: ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY
MODULE 1: The Entrepreneurial Mindset

GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. Develop an understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset;
2. Develop an awareness of the diverse characteristics of an entrepreneur;
3. Understand the best practices of entrepreneurship development.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Explain the nature and drowth of the entrepreneurship
2. Distinguish between entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
3. Differentiate between entrepreneurship and small business management
4. Identify types of entrepreneurship
5. Discuss the characteristics of an entrepreneur
6. Discuss the work of at least 3 noted entrepreneurs withing and outside the region.
7. Examine the impact of cultural diversity on entrepreneurship development
8. I dentify potential mistakes/pitfalls of entrepreneurship
9. Assess successes and failures of entrepreneurship
10. Discuss the myths of entrepreneurship

Content
1. The nature and growth of entrepreneurship
a) Introduction to the origins and concept of entrepreneurship
i) evolution: Schumpter, Drucker, Cantillon
ii) Culture, tradition
iii) Poverty
iv) Desire for wealth

b) Emerging drivers of contemporary entrepreneurship - information and communication

Technology (ICT), Globalisation, Changing demands, unemployment, changing
demographics, institutional support, ease of entry in the formal sector
c) Role of entrepreneurship in national and regional development - impact on job creation,
growth in GDP, social development (social entrepreneurship)
d) Emerging areas for enterprise development - including the creative and cultural industries

2. Entrepreneurship and intrapeneurship

a) Entrepreneurship vs intrapreneurship
b) Types of entrepreneurship
i) survival
ii) Lifestyle
 iii)Dynamic growth
iv) Speculative

c) Role of the entrepreneur and the intrapreneur in entrerpirse development

i) Factors that contribute to enterprises becoming more entrepreneurial
ii) Openness and flexibility, innovation, proactivity
iii) Environment of change, chaos, complexity, competition, uncertainty and
contradiction

3. Entrepreneurship and small business management.

a) Innovation as the main difference between entrepreneurship and small bussines
management.
b) Nature and characteristics of small business

4. Types of entrepreneruship
a) Nascent
b) Novice
c) Habitual
d) Serial
e) Portfolio

5. Characteristics of an entrepreneur
a) Innovative
b) Creative
c) Calculated risk taker
d) Systematic planner
e) Visionary
f) Achievement oriented
g) Persistent
h) Dynamic
i) Hard working
j) Self-confident
k) Aggressive
l) Egostistic
m) Emotional intelligence

6. Noted regional entrepreneurs

Including but not limited to:
Chris Blackwell, Marley Family, Eddie Grant, Arthur Lok Jack, Thalia Lyn, Vincent Hosang,
Audrey Marks, Joan Duncan, Aleem Mohammed, Anthony Sabga, Richard Branson, Bill
Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Reno Gajadhar, Jay Z, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, Hubert and Helen
Bhagwansingh, James Husbands, Allen Chastanet, Adrian Augier, Ronald Ramjattan, Edward
Beharry, Sir Charles Williams and Yesu Persaud.
 7. Cultural diversity of Entrepreneurship
a) Gender and entrepreneurship
b) Youth and entrepreneurship
c) Ethnicity and entrpreneurship
d) Family and entrepreneurship
e) Religion and entrepreneurship

8. Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
a) Human Resource HR/Management failures: lack of leadership, judgement and
knowledge, lack of experience.
b) Operation failures: poor inventory management; poor planning.
c) Marketing failures: weak marketing strategy; uncontrolled growth; poor location;
incorrect pricing.
d) Financial Failures: poor financial control; inadequate record keeping.
e) Failure as a natural part of the entrepreneurial process.

9. Factors that contribute to the Success of Entrepreneurship

a) Know ur nusiness in depth
b) Develop a solid business plan
c) Manage financial resources
d) Understand financial statements
e) Manage people effectively
f) Know your strengths and weaknesses

10. Myths of Entrepreneurship

a) entrepreneurship ventures and small businesses are the same thing;
b) all entrepreneurs are rich;
c) entrepreneurs are born not made;
d) entrepreneurship is easy;
e) All you need is money to start;
f) Successful entrepreneurship needs only a great idea;
g) Entrepreneurs always generate new ideas;
h) All you need is luck;
i) Entrepreneurs are extreme risk takers.

RESOURCES
Electronic Sources and Websites
Babson College - http://www.babson.edu/faculty/teaching-learning/researchpublications/Pages/
home.aspx
Oklahoma State University (Experiential Class room): HTTP://Enterpreneurship.OKSTATE.EDU
Skolls Foundation - http://www.skollfoundation.org/?gclid=CLXQ4f_2-7ECFYg7OgodADQAFQ
Academic Journals:
Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Ebscohost - http://search.ebscohost.com/
MODULE 2: The Entrepreneurial Process
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the entrepreneurial process
2. Appreciate the key stages in the process
3. Understand the process through which business ideas are evaluated

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Identify the steps in the entrepreneurial process
2. Discuss some of the methods of generating ideas
3. Identify sources of entrepreneurial opportunities
4. Distinguish between an idea and an opportunity
5. Evaluate an opportunity from given information
6. Describe a business concept
7. Identify sources of business concepts
8. Develop a business concept from an idea
9. Determine the required resources for a venture
10. Identify sources of required resources from a ventures
11. Evaluate the required resources for a venture
12. Explain the activities involved in implementing and managing a venture
13. Assess the various options of harvesting a venture

CONTENT
Steps in the Entrepreneurial Process:
● Idea generation
● Opportunity identification
● Business concepts
● Resources
● Implementing and managing
● Harvesting.

1. Generating Ideas
a) Methods of generating ideas: brainstorming, focus group, check list methods, problem
inventory analysis, scenario thinking, the note book method, reverse brain storming,
Delphi methodology, Gordon method, free association.
b) Screening ideas and selecting among competing ideas.
c) How ideas are linked to opportunity.
2. Opportunity Identification
a) Changing demographics.
b) Emerging markets.
c) New technologies
d) Regulatory changes
e) Social changes.
 f) Opportunity evaluation: market issues, economic issues, competitive advantage issues
and management issues.

3. Business concepts
a) Definition/description of a business concept
b) Sources of business concept: New products, new services, new processes, new markets,
new organisational structures/forms, new sales or distribution channels, new development
paradigms.
c) Steps in developing a business concept from an idea

4. Resources (Financial, Physical and Human)

a) Determine the required resources: including skilled employees, general management
expertise, marketing and sales expertise, technical expertise, financing, distribution
channels, sources of supply, production facilities, licences, patents and legal protection
b) Acquiring the required resources: including internal sources (equity, family and friends)
and external (debt, leveraging, outsourcing, leasing, contract labour, angel funding,
venture capitalist, temporary staff, supplier financing, joint ventures, partnerships, barter
and gifts.
c) Business and entrepreneurial development organisations: including Caribbean Group of
Youth Business Trusts (Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St.
Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Belize, and Antigua and Barbuda), Jamaica
Business Development Corporation, HEART Trust/NTA (Jamaica), Institute of Private
Enterprise Development (IPED); National Entrepreneurship Development Company
Limited (NEDCO), Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (MSME) Alliance
(Jamaica); Caribbean Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (CASME); DFLSA
Incorporated (Guyana and Suriname).

5. Implementing and managing the venture

a) Implementation of concept
b) Monitoring of performance
c) Payback of resource providers
d) Reinvestment in the business
e) Expansion of the business
f) Achievement of performance goals

6. Harvesting the venture

Harvesting strategies
a) Absorption of new concept into mainstream operations
b) Licensing of rights
c) Family succession
d) Go public (IPO)
e) Employee share ownership plan (ESOP)
f) Liquidate (Shut down) venture
 g) Selling the venture
h) Management buy-out (MBO)
i) Mergers and acquisitions
Exit Strategies: Note that exit strategies (including selling the venture, liquidation, mergers, acquisitions
and management buyout) can be part of a harvesting plan.

RESOURCES
Websites
Oklahoma State University (Experiential Class room): HTTP://Enterpreneurship.OKSTATE.EDU
Indiana State University - http://www.entrepreneur.com/colleges/school/1022665.html

Academic Journals:
Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
MODULE 3: Creativity and Innovation
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
1. Understand the nature of creativity and innovation;
2. Appreciate the process of nurturing and managing innovation;
3. Appreciate the value of creativity and innovation;
4. Understand the importance of protecting creations and innovations.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. Define creativity;
2. Explain the role and process of creativity in entrepreneurship;
3. Define innovation;
4. Explain the role and process of innovation in entrepreneurship;
5. Discuss the types of innovation in relation to the 4Ps (product, process, position, paradigm);
6. List the core innovation concepts;
7. Identify the sources of innovation;
8. Explain disruptive and incremental innovations;
9. Discuss open innovations;
10. Identify micro factors that would nurture innovation;
11. Identify macro factors that would nurture innovation;
12. Discuss the various methods of protecting innovations and creativity.

CONTENT
1. Principles of creativity
a) What is creativity?
b) Process of creativity.
c) Roles of creativity.
d) Importance of creativity.

2. Principles of Innovation
a) The meaning of innovation.
b) The importance of innovation.
c) Types of Innovation – the 4Ps, product, process, position and paradigm.
d) Core innovation concepts:
i)incremental;
(ii) modular;
(iii) discontinuous;
(iv) architectural.
e) Sources of innovation: (i) new markets; (ii) new technologies; (iii) new political rules;
(iv) running out of roads (limited options); (v) change in sentiments or behaviours; (vi)
deregulations; (vii) changes in the business models
 3. Disruptive, Incremental and Open innovations (a) Concept of disruptive and incremental
innovations. (b) Effect of disruptive and incremental innovations on the entrepreneurial process. (c) The
concept of open innovation. (d) Dynamics of open innovation. (e) Impact of open source innovation. 4.
Nurturing and Managing Innovation Conditions for effective innovation: (a) Micro/Organisational level
(i) incentives for innovating; (ii) internal policy; (iii) organisational culture: - inspiration; - observation; -
listening to consumer; - organisational structure. (b) Macro/National level Policy development: (i) social
(for example, changing demographics); (ii) political (for example, internal governance, stability); (iii)
economic (for example, entrepreneurship policies, incentives); (iv) environmental (regulations,
environmental responsibility); (v) cultural (respect for indigenous customs and practices); (vi) ethical
(adherence to sound principles and business practices)

5. Methods of protecting Innovation and creativity Including but not limited to: (a) Intellectual property
rights. (b) Branding. (c) Trademarks. (d) Patents. (e) Copyrights. (f) Registered design protection. (g)
Trade secrets (processes, techniques, confidential disclosure agreements).

RESOURCES
Texts:
Mariotti, S.,T.Towle, and N. Patel Entrepreneurship: Owning your future, 11th Edition. New
Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2011.
Mariotti, S. and Toni Towle Entrepreneurship: How to Start and Operate a Small
Business, 10th Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2011.
Scarborough, N. M., Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Management, 6
th Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2011.

Harvard Business School -

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/search/entrepreneurship?Ntk=HEMainSearch&N=0
Babson College - http://www.babson.edu/faculty/teaching-learning/researchpublications/Pages/
home.aspx

Academic Journals:
Journal of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation