MBA 7066 Innovation and Enterpreneurship Module
To thrive in a disrupted world, you will need creativity as well as commercial acumen. This module introduces Business Development from a contemporary perspective and addresses a range of issues and practices central to understanding and fostering innovation in business environments. It aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of initiating, establishing and developing business ventures in a range of business context and sectors. Emphasis is placed upon an appreciation of strategic considerations and the development of business competences as well as how these can be used to effectively develop enterprises within relevant cultural, economic, legislative/regulatory settings. The module will teach you how to apply existing theoretical concepts and knowledge to real-world business challenges. For example:
- starting up your ideas in a professional-supported environment,
- engaging with contemporary business issues, and considerations in diverse contexts,
- learning creative techniques and tools for designing and developing ideas of real value.
This module welcomes students from any disciplinary background who are thinking about starting up their own venture or building a career adding innovative value to existing organisations and companies. The module will develop the high-level skills and critical competencies needed for successful organisational innovation and entrepreneurship, through a largely experiential and practice-orientated learning approach.
- Teacher: Hakeem Owolabi
This 20-Credit module enables you develop your contemporary knowledge and understanding of master's level research, methods and analysis supporting you in the development of your MRes Dissertation (MRS7006). On the module, you will explore the philosophical foundations of social research and distinguish between different research paradigms, methodologies and methods. You will be able to critically reflect on your intended research approaches, select and justify the appropriate research designs, and effectively articulate your research proposals and questions in line with your dissertation plans. The module is designed to enable you developed and be assessed for postgraduate level GAME+ competencies like Critical creativity and innovation, Professional identity, and Skills mastery. You will develop your qualitative research skills to better understand and interpret a range of interpretive data, while also honing your quantitative research skills to achieve a foundation in statistical literacy. The module will provide the right (CHALLENGE) to develop your advanced research skills in preparation for the final dissertation project (COHESION).
- Teacher: Hakeem Owolabi
MBA 7066 Innovation and Enterpreneurship Module
To thrive in a disrupted world, you will need creativity as well as commercial acumen. This module introduces Business Development from a contemporary perspective and addresses a range of issues and practices central to understanding and fostering innovation in business environments. It aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of initiating, establishing and developing business ventures in a range of business context and sectors. Emphasis is placed upon an appreciation of strategic considerations and the development of business competences as well as how these can be used to effectively develop enterprises within relevant cultural, economic, legislative/regulatory settings. The module will teach you how to apply existing theoretical concepts and knowledge to real-world business challenges. For example:
- starting up your ideas in a professional-supported environment,
- engaging with contemporary business issues, and considerations in diverse contexts,
- learning creative techniques and tools for designing and developing ideas of real value.
This module welcomes students from any disciplinary background who are thinking about starting up their own venture or building a career adding innovative value to existing organisations and companies. The module will develop the high-level skills and critical competencies needed for successful organisational innovation and entrepreneurship, through a largely experiential and practice-orientated learning approach.
- Teacher: Chipo Dube
- Teacher: Andrew Kenny
- Teacher: Hakeem Owolabi
- Teacher: Ian Chapman
- Teacher: Hakeem Owolabi
- Teacher: Iain Stalker