BUSI4X215: Thinking Entrepreneurially

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• The module aims to:
• Introduce a psychological approach to entrepreneurship
• Help students to understand how they can cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, which can be applied in an entrepreneurial or organizational context
• Improve students confidence in decision-making in dynamic and uncertain environments, using entrepreneurship as a relevant context
• Empower students to practice self-empathy and empathy when they engage in, or manage entrepreneurial actions.

• Introduction: The entrepreneurial mindset
• Entrepreneurial ideas into action
• Entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty
• Impulsive entrepreneurial action
• A psychological perspective to raising capital
• Adapting, persisting, and failing entrepreneurially
• Leading entrepreneurially
• Emotions and entrepreneurial wellbeing.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Improve their capacity to think entrepreneurially in different organizational contexts.
• Understand how individuals cognition, including their emotions and neurodiverse traits, influence entrepreneurial action.
• Demonstrate a broad understanding of the main theories of entrepreneurial action.
• Understand how the interplay between an individuals entrepreneurial mindset and the broader environment influences entrepreneurial intentions, decisions and actions.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Students will be able to:
• Develop cognitive skills such as the ability to think critically about entrepreneurial processes within new or established firms.
• Develop ideation skills, by learning techniques that will help them to generate ideas.
• Develop empathy which can improve relations and communication with future stakeholders such as customers, employees, and investors.

Key Skills:

• Written and oral communication skills
• Planning, organizing and time management
• Decision-making
• Presentation skills
• Teamwork
• Critical evaluation skills (group presentations involve students exchanging feedback).

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, seminars, group presentations where students will exchange feedback, and engagement with the modules summative assessment.
• The lectures will introduce students to a psychological approach in entrepreneurship. The seminars will entail participation in games and exercises that will help students to immerse in entrepreneurial ideation and decision-making under uncertainty. The seminars will also encourage students to make connections between lecture-based theoretical content and empirical content based on popular podcasts.
• The summative assessment will involve a written discussion of a podcast episode on a topic related to the lecture content, to test students ability to integrate theory and practice.

Students will receive feedback on their seminar contributions and a group presentation, where students will also exchange feedback.

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