Sustainable and Social Entrepreneurship: triple business models

Can entrepreneurs save the world? In this 1-week summer intensive you will discover hands-on how the entrepreneurial mindset - backed up by entrepreneurial knowledge and skills - can deliver novel and radical solutions to society’s biggest challenges.           

Discover hands-on how the entrepreneurial mindset - backed up by entrepreneurial knowledge and skills - can deliver novel and radical solutions to society’s biggest challenges. How? You will identify, design and launch your own social enterprise and pitch your concept to a panel of experts and investors.

You will identify, design and launch your own social enterprise, and pitch your concept to a panel of experts and investors.

This course gives you:

• Knowledge and understanding of core theories, methods and techniques used in entrepreneurship;
• Knowledge of how entrepreneurship can deliver novel solutions to complex problems arising from global sustainability issues.

Skills

You will develop the skills needed to:

• Initiate, plan,  conduct and complete a business projects in which your new knowledge of social entrepreneurship is applied;
• Generate creative ideas and translate them into concrete plans for creating and running a business;
• Experiment with new ideas, attitudes, and behaviours;
• Present and pitch your business idea and analysis to a panel of professionals.

Attitude

This summer school stimulates you to:

• Be curious about all aspects of entrepreneurship, innovation and business and to really understand how they interact with society at large;
• Develop  an ‘opportunity’ orientation in which you view global problems as challenges with a variety of potential solutions;
• Be open to learning and experimentation as key to your self-development and further education.