ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS PLANNING

MGT5EBP

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

Entrepreneurial Business Planning provides a systematic, theoretical and analytical framework to explore the dynamic nature of entrepreneurship. You will engage with contemporary issues of entrepreneurship, and explore entrepreneurs, their ventures, the entrepreneurship process and opportunity evaluation tools. You will explore these aspects to enhance your 'theory-for-practice-sake' perspective of entrepreneurship; applied in a range of professional and scholarly contexts.

School: La Trobe Business School (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: Yes

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: The Melbourne Campus instances in Semester 1 and 2 are only available to students enrolled in the Master of Business Information Management and Systems (LMBISC)

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Entrepreneurship Theory/Process/Practice

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Prereading

Author: Frederick, O'Connor, Kuratko

Year: 2019

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: Cengage Learning Australia

ISBN: N/A

Chapter/article title: N/A

Chapter/issue: N/A

URL: N/A

Other description: N/A

Source location: N/A

Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Leadership and Teamwork

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Convey focused and sustained entrepreneurship arguments supported by literature appropriate for both practice and academic contexts to provide entrepreneurial solutions.

02. Apply theoretical frameworks to interpret entrepreneurship directed academic research in order to develop contemporary entrepreneurship insights which are verifiable and scholarly.

03. Exercise effective teamwork skills to develop solutions to complex entrepreneurship opportunities and outcomes

04. Critically review and use information to meet opportunity evaluation outcomes and generate new information and entrepreneurship decision-making

05. Develop advanced knowledge in entrepreneurship through education and research which is innovative, entrepreneurial, responsible and engaged, and which can be applied in a range of contemporary entrepreneurship challenges

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 1, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Class requirements

WorkShopWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours workshop per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
This instance is only for students enrolled in the LMBISC. In addition, students are expected to undertake between 1h and 3h of online learning and assessment activities each week prior to class.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Group report plus presentation (1000 word report plus 5 min presentation per student)Equivalent to 1500 words per student	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	20	SILO1, SILO2
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO3, SILO4
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Report and Presentation on contemporary challenges in entrepreneurship - equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO4, SILO5

City Campus, 2020, Semester 1, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Class requirements

WorkShopWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours workshop per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
In addition, students are expected to undertake between 1 h and 3 h of online learning and assessment activities each week prior to class.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Group report plus presentation (1000 word report plus 5 min presentation per student)Equivalent to 1500 words per student	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	20	SILO1, SILO2
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO3, SILO4
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Report and Presentation on contemporary challenges in entrepreneurship - equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO4, SILO5

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 2, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Class requirements

WorkShopWeek: 31 - 43
One 2.00 hours workshop per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.
This instance is only for students enrolled in the LMBISC. In addition, students are expected to undertake between 1 h and 3 h of online learning and assessment activities each week prior to class.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Group report plus presentation (1000 word report plus 5 min presentation per student)Equivalent to 1500 words per student	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	20	SILO1, SILO2
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO3, SILO4
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Report and Presentation on contemporary challenges in entrepreneurship - equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO4, SILO5

City Campus, 2020, Semester 2, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Class requirements

WorkShopWeek: 31 - 43
One 2.00 hours workshop per week on any day including weekend at night from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.
In addition, students are expected to undertake between 1 h and 3 h of online learning and assessment activities each week prior to class.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Group report plus presentation (1000 word report plus 5 min presentation per student)Equivalent to 1500 words per student	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	20	SILO1, SILO2
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO3, SILO4
Individual report plus presentation (2000 word report plus 5 min presentation)Report and Presentation on contemporary challenges in entrepreneurship - equivalent to 2500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO4, SILO5