Responsible Entrepreneurship – MBus

The purpose of this module is to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and become ‘future-fit’ and ‘responsibility focused’ in a rapidly evolving
business landscape. It will teach students to adopt proactive problem-solving approaches to new opportunities and challenges, as they arise.
This module will equip students with the core entrepreneurial competencies and practical skills to create the outline of a business plan using the Disciplined Entrepreneurship Canvas.

This module gives learners an in-depth introduction to the concept of responsible entrepreneurship theory and practice, outlining why both new and established enterprises need to incorporate a responsibility agenda into their operations. The module offers an overview of the trends, opportunities, and challenges in key responsibility verticals relevant to the UN SDGs, such as renewables, health, circular economy, food, energy, urban mobility, and manufacturing.

The purpose of this module is to equip students with the necessary skills to carry out effective research, using appropriate sources and methods, in an ethically-sensitive manner. This module aims to provide learners with the knowledge, research skills and competencies required to analyse, plan and implement a research project from the initial concept phase through to successful completion and communication of results. It teaches learners how to conduct primary and secondary research in business-appropriate contexts.

This module aims to provide learners with a critical overview of the human, technological, financial, materials, stakeholder, and leadership resources and requirements to promote a sustainable responsible enterprise culture aligned to the organisation’s stakeholder community. In doing so it is intended to provide several applied frameworks and approaches for examining, implementing and evaluating the actions and performance of organisations in the context of managing and leading a responsible workforce throughout the organisation. It will promote the concept and practice of a co-designed, co-delivered and co-evaluated responsible driven culture for a sustainable socially responsible organisation

This module will provide learners with further critical insights into the responsibility challenges faced by key verticals such as renewables, health, circular economy, energy, urban mobility and manufacturing. Learners are introduced to measurement tools and frameworks that can be applied to organisations to help analyse and develop responsibility challenges and develop appropriate strategies to deal with them

The purpose of this module is to provide learners with an in-depth knowledge of the responsible entrepreneurial organisation and how it responds to a dynamic business environment. The module equips students with the knowledge and skills to build entrepreneurial DNA into an organisation’s architecture through its leadership, culture and structure. The learner will be matched with an industry partner in a given sector, to help investigate a live responsibility challenge.

The purpose of this module is to provides learners with an opportunity to conduct research on a responsible business sector, and to identify the key opportunities and challenges. The learner will be matched with an industry partner in a given sector, (as identified in their ‘Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ module), to evaluate and justify solutions to a live responsibility challenge.
Students will assume the role of a consultant, diagnosing the key issues facing the organisation and advising the client on the best option(s) available to solve an identifiable responsible/sustainable enterprise issue.

This module will provide the student with an opportunity to integrate and develop their knowledge and skills to identify an idea for a new product or service, to determine whether a viable commercial opportunity exists for this idea and whether to pursue new venture creation. Students will be required to conduct extensive market research for their idea including interviews of prospective customers in home and overseas markets. They will also be required to research appropriate suppliers and/or distributers and to prepare a feasibility study plan and document. Students will be required to demonstrate creative and critical thinking skills to determine and mitigate ethical and other issues, to identify and to prepare to pitch for funding from enterprise funding bodies, angels or VC funds.