International Entrepreneurship

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• environmental factors (global and national) influencing international entrepreneurship;
• entrepreneurial process in other countries/cultural settings, and managing a growth orientated global entrepreneurial venture, including a sound understanding of international expansion of a venture and pertinent sources of financing in international entrepreneurship;
• relational aspects of international entrepreneurship that comprise managing relationships with key stakeholders impacting upon any venture;
• the paradigm of 'corporate social responsibility', its implications on strategy, policy and practices of global organisations in terms of new business venturing, usually in the form of social enterprises created through corporate community involvement.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• eamine the entrepreneurship process and enterprises in different forms such as high technology ventures, social enterprises and family businesses from a cross-cultural perspective;
• diagnose global and national environments by evaluating characteristics of economy, society and policy making for entrepreneurship of all types, such as science and social entrepreneurship;
• critically evaluate the 'corporate social responsibility' paradigm and its implications on the new venture development in global organisations.
• identify all key stakeholders impacting upon any venture in international settings;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan and control effectively for successful completion of a personal and group workload;
• carry out team-work effectively.
• communicate effectively, in both oral and written form, using and justifying argument within reports, presentations and debates;
• use a wide range of information sources effectively, and apply bibliographic skills;

Global and national context for entrepreneurship and enterprise development; Enterprise support programmes in the US, Europe, UK and developing economies; Incubation programmes and implications on new venture development; Entrepreneurial strategy, process and operations in global ventures; Growth: Managing international expansion of ventures; Sources of financing in international ventures: Venture capitalists, corporate venture funds and business angels; International aspects of science entrepreneurship: High-growth technology ventures in the USA, Europe and developing economies; International aspects of social entrepreneurship: Social enterprises in the USA, Europe and developing economies; Innovation: International dimensions of innovation; Cross-cultural issues in global entrepreneurship: Assembling global resources and key HR issues in global ventures; International entrepreneurship in family businesses; Corporate social responsibility paradigm and implications on new venture development in global entrepreneurial organisations.

Lectures; activity-based seminars; case studies; independent study.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Classes and office hours.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.