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The Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies at Leeds University Business School (University of Leeds) are pleased to announce that they will host the European Council of Small Business Entrepreneurship Education (3E) Conference from 10-13 May 2016 in Leeds, UK. The theme for this year’s conference is: Being Enterprising: Entrepreneurship, Education and Engagement.
Now that you have finished the course, we hoped that you enjoyed it and we would like to ask you some final questions. We would like you to revisit the questions that you answered at the beginning of the course about business topics and social media use. It will take only 10 minutes. The...
Welcome to our course “Starting a Business” we hope that you’ll find lots of inspiration and ideas from our featured entrepreneurs, business advisers and teachers. Before you start we would like to know a little bit more about you. We have provided a link to a number of questions about your experience of other online...
Why Embed Enterprise Education into your Curriculum? The UK government has been exploring ways to enhance young people’s employability skills that will see Enterprise Education embedded within the FE curriculum. Free Resources to Support Enterprise Education in your Curriculum The Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies have developed a free online resource for FE Schools...
Activity Six illustrates the importance of being able to raise funds to when starting a business. There are many ways to get your business up and running, from the informal such as personal savings & borrowing, borrowing from friends & family, to the more formal avenues like bank loans, raising equity to crowd-funding. About this...
Activity Five illustrates the importance of financial information and forecasting when starting a business. Financial information is important; it provides entrepreneurs with the evidence to support their decisions about a business and helps to justify those decisions when they present them to other people. About this case study The case study illustrates the importance of...
Activity Four illustrates the importance of understanding the business process. Controlling operations and technologies plays an important part in the growth of a business; it is important that an entrepreneur pays close attention to how their business works and how performance can be improved so that they are in a position to take it forward...
Activity Three illustrates the importance of understanding customers and competitors when starting a business. To run a successful business you need to understand who your customers are and importantly, how you are going to reach them. About this case study The case study illustrates the importance of understanding customers and competitors when starting a business....
Activity Two illustrates the importance of people within a business. Business success does not just rely upon the qualities and resources of the individual entrepreneur, a good business also needs good staff. In this activity we explore the importance of recruiting the right staff to the ongoing success of a business. About this case study...
Activity One illustrates the importance of vision and opportunity when starting a business. Discovering and creating opportunities is central to the notion of entrepreneurship. There is much debate about whether entrepreneurs discover opportunities, such as spotting a gap in a market, or create opportunities from their knowledge or experience. Regardless of how the opportunity comes...