10 Courses
This module builds on the L4 Mental Wealth: Professional Life module to further develop students’ competencies to form the basis of their future careers. In this module, the students will undertake feasibility studies with reference to human, financial, logistical resources to realise a product/service. The module will further develop the students’ self-awareness, interpersonal and negotiation skills through team work and mentoring.
Main topics of study:
· Development of ideas into profitable, money-making businesses
· Innovation and enterprise processes such as market research and testing, project and operations management, sustainability, and profitability
· Design methods and processes
· Opportunity specifications
· Intellectual property and its place in innovation and enterprise
· Management of innovation and creativity
· Mentoring
Learning Outcomes for the module
· Use creative methods to
solve real life problems within the context of sustainability and constraints,
such as materials, processes, legal, contractual and health and safety issues.
· Carry out realistic time planning based on available financial, materials, human, process resources.
· Determine
and assess the profitability and commercialization potential of ideas with
ethical considerations.
· Demonstrate their ability
to carry out significant parts of the innovation and enterprise processes
within their discipline.
· Reflect on learning and
skills development.