Entrepreneurship and New Venture Development Short Course

This course will promote thinking and critical analysis of developing a new venture.

This interactive course enables you to appreciate the challenges involved in building and developing a virtual business using a business simulation software.

This course will provide you with an overview for developing a new venture. It will provide an insight into the nature and business environment of start-ups and promote thinking and critical analysis of developing a new venture and its operations. You will study this course at the Nottingham Business School, which is one of the top 5% of business schools in the world with an AASCB accreditation!

During your two-week course you will explore the context of enterprise creation and management, market analysis and positioning, and product/service introduction. You will also study operations planning, financial management and capital raise, marketing and sales, and internationalisation

At the end of the course you should be able to identify market opportunities and position a new business idea appropriately and synthesise the key business functions to explore a new business idea appropriately. You should also be able to apply managerial skills to design and support a new venture and develop your ability to evaluate and justify your own ideas, solutions to business problems and new business propositions and defend them against others.

You should have completed at least one year of undergraduate business course and wish to enhance your creativity and design thinking by combining techniques from the design, marketing and business professions. You should also have the required English language skills.

Student Feedback

The course allowed highly interactive sessions. During the course I learned to build a good team and how to cooperate with them. The practical learning through various activities were highly effective.

Vaishnavi Priya Murugesan – PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, India

At the end of this course you should be able to identify market opportunities and position a new business idea appropriately.

Course Details

Location: City Campus

Starting: 8 July 2019

Course Duration: Two weeks

Credits: 10 UK / 5 ECTS

Fees

Early bird discount applies to students who pay their tuition fee before 31^st March 2019:

Early bird discount fee	Standard fee
£990	£1,100

If you are interested in booking as a group of 10 or more, please contact us for more information and package prices.

Application deadline 1^st June 2019

Fees include:

Full social and evening events programme, supported by NTU student buddies
At least one weekend visit to one UK city or other attraction (maximum of three trips available for those on the four-week programme)
NEW for 2019 - English Conversation Cafe
NEW for 2019 - An end of course ‘Summer School Showcase’ at which student work is exhibited to NTU students, staff and summer school students
Access to NTU’s Global Lounges and services, including a free international lunch and week-day refreshments
An Employability / Alumni session
A GSS T-shirt
Certificate of completion and a transcript of results