Entrepreneurship & Business Resource Mapping syllabus
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Entrepreneurship & Business Resource Mapping
7 units
1 Introduction to Entrepreneurship (3 LHs)
2 Creativity and Innovation for Entrepreneurship (4 LHs)
3 Legal Issues for the Entrepreneurship Development (3 LHs)
4 Feasibility Analysis and Business Opportunity Identification (10 LHs)
5 Types of Business Resources and Mapping (4 LHs)
6 Business Model and Resource Mapping Strategy (5 LHs)
7 Introduction to Business Demography (3 LHs)
1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship (3 LHs)
- Entrepreneurship and entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship and entrepreneur: concept, features of entrepreneurship, and type of entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Eco-efficiency
- Ecopreneurship
- Entrepreneurial process
- Entrepreneurial process.
2. Creativity and Innovation for Entrepreneurship (4 LHs)
- Creativity
- Creativity: components of creativity
- Creativity techniques. Innovation
- creativity techniques. Innovation: incremental versus disruptive innovation
- Sources of innovation
- sources of innovation
- Process of innovation
- process of innovation: prompts
- Inspirations and diagnoses
- inspirations and diagnoses
- proposals and ideas
- Prototyping and pilots
- prototyping and pilots
- sustaining
- Scaling and diffusion
- scaling and diffusion
- Systemic change. linking creativity
- and systemic change. Linking creativity
- innovation
- Entrepreneurship
- and entrepreneurship.
3. Legal Issues for the Entrepreneurship Development (3 LHs)
- Legal structures
- Legal structures: Entrepreneurship registration, types of business enterprises (sole proprietorship, partnership, company, trusts)
- Intellectual property
- Intellectual property: patents, trademarks, industrial design, copyright, trade secrets
- Other legal issues
- other legal issues: licenses, trade practices, taxation, licensing, product safety and liability, Insurance and contracts.
4. Feasibility Analysis and Business Opportunity Identification (10 LHs)
- Concept — Feasibility Analysis and Business Opportunity Identification
- Concept, role of feasibility analysis in developing successful business ideas, product and services
- Industry/ target market analysis
- industry/ target market analysis
- Organizational feasibility analysis
- organizational feasibility analysis
- Financial feasibility analysis
- financial feasibility analysis
- Development of feasibility analysis template
- development of feasibility analysis template
- Business opportunity identification
- Business opportunity identification: Techniques for identifying business opportunities, market research and analysis, analysis of feasibility of ideas
- Business description
- Business description: background, purpose, and objectives. Marketing component: Overall market, specific market competitive factors.
5. Types of Business Resources and Mapping (4 LHs)
- Human resources
- Human resources: Skills, teams, and leadership
- Financial resources
- Financial resources: Funding sources, budgeting, and financial planning
- Physical resources
- Physical resources: Infrastructure, technology, and equipment
- Informational resources
- Informational resources: data, information and knowledge systems
- Resource mapping
- Resource mapping: concept and application.
6. Business Model and Resource Mapping Strategy (5 LHs)
- Business model canvas
- Business model canvas: concept, business model canvas versus lean canvas
- Business Plan
- Business Plan: concept and benefits of the business plan, elements of a business plan, different types of plan. Preparation of the sample business plan by using business model canvas
- Techniques for effective resource visualization
- Techniques for effective resource visualization
- Strategies for Resource Mapping
- Strategies for Resource Mapping
- Resources Mapping in Nepal
- Resources Mapping in Nepal.
7. Introduction to Business Demography (3 LHs)
- Business Demography
- Business Demography: concept and application
- Spheres of business demography
- Spheres of business demography: consumer research, product development, product marketing, site selection
- Sources of data and business decision making
- Sources of data and business decision making.