Enterprise Creation

This practical module is designed to give participants a unique opportunity to experience what it is like to start up and run their own business, from idea inception, to exploring business opportunities and presenting a feasible and robust business concept.

Description

There is a strong positive link between enterprise and prosperity: the world’s healthiest economies display high levels of new business start-up. The UK, along with the rest of the world, needs to develop and sustain a culture of creativity and innovation to ensure that enterprise is valued and entrepreneurs can access the support that they need.

This module aims to develop confident, enterprising and creative individuals who:

possess an awareness of with the ever-changing business environment
recognise and pursue opportunities
are keen to build a network that will support their goals
take responsible and measured risks

Undertaking this module will allow participants to consider self-employment and will possess vital skills needed to develop enterprising and engaged employees who can positively contribute to the business.

In addition, participants will benefit from continuous input from entrepreneurs’ key partner agencies including Princes Trust, Business Gateway and Scottish Enterprise.

This is an SCQF Level 9 module and upon successful completion, delegates will be awarded 20 credits.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites but participants should have an interest in starting their own business or may have taken the initial steps to launch a business.

Delivery

This module will be delivered entirely online. Learning materials will be hosted on our virtual learning environment and delegates are expected to work through materials in their own time. This online self-paced learning will be supplemented with live sessions.

Live interactive sessions to support your online learning will take place every Thursday at 1pm (subject to change).

Live sessions will take place on Microsoft Teams and will last for 2 hours approx.

The first live session will take place on [date TBC].

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Dr Robert Crammond, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at University of the West of Scotland (UWS). His academic interests lie in enterprise and entrepreneurship education and progressing contemporary, enterprise-centric stakeholder theory. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and Management and Business Educator (CMBE), Dr Crammond also teaches and coordinates across many disciplines, including subjects such as organisational behaviours and stakeholder relationships, leadership theory and practice, human resource management, organisational development and addressing business and managerial research skills.

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates. Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland. If you do not meet this criteria, please enquire here.

Graduate Apprenticeship

In addition to being available on a CPD basis, this module is part of our fully funded Graduate Apprenticeship - BA (Hons) Business Management.

Our Business Management GA has been developed in collaboration with industry leaders to support aspiring business managers and leaders to develop the essential skills and knowledge needed to underpin business growth, innovation and increased productivity.

Modules available through the UWS CPD Centre include:

For further information, please contact apprenticeships@uws.ac.uk