Introduction to Entrepreneurship (BDI3C)

By the end of this course, students will:

• Analyse the characteristics and contributions of enterprising people;
• Compare the characteristics and contributions of various entrepreneurs;
• Assess their own entrepreneurial and enterprising potential

By the end of this course, students will

• Explain the importance of invention and innovation to venture creation;
• Analyse various methods of generating ideas and identifying opportunities to satisfy needs
  and wants;
• Generate realistic new ideas and identify possible opportunities for a school-based or
  student-run business;
• Conduct primary and secondary marketing research to evaluate the idea or opportunity for their proposed venture.

By the end of this course, students will

• Assess the importance of having a venture plan;
• Analyse the structure and content of a venture plan;
•  Explain how to evaluate and revise a venture plan

By the end of this course, students will

• Analyse the resources required to run their chosen venture;
•  Complete the components of an effective production plan for their chosen venture;
•  Complete the components of an effective marketing plan for their chosen venture;
•  Complete the components of an effective financial plan for their chosen venture;
•  Produce, using appropriate software, a venture plan for their chosen venture.