Saturday 25 May 2019

Global entrepreneurship assignment 1 - my suggested steps 2019


Global entrepreneurship assignment 1 - some suggested steps from me:


Module guide info:

"Part 1 Theory – meeting the K1 learning outcome Critical understanding of global entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability issues and challenges" (module guide)


Theme choices (based on updated module guide):

Enterprise - Reflection of learning experience. Where am I now? 
Introduction to Global Entrepreneurship Theory vs. Practice gap. 
Global to Local – Successful Global Entrepreneurs Innovation 
Value Creation and Co-creation. 
Successful local business – from small acorns 
Entrepreneurship around the globe 
Concept of Global Citizenship 
Social Entrepreneurship 
Ethics 
Philanthropy 
Developing successful Business Ideas, exploiting global markets 
Developing Your Brand 
Moving from an idea to setting up a micro-enterprise 
Identify, design, plan, undertake, manage and exploit an entrepreneurial opportunity. 
Market Research and Feasibility Study What went wrong? What went right? 
Building a new venture team: Skills and attributes 
Managing your micro-enterprise 
Business Planning 
Finance, Costing and Funding 
Crowd Funding 
New Media and Technology 
Legal and importance of intellectual property, patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
Global Entrepreneurship Week – Aims and Objectives 
Importance of networking, pitching and self-development. 
Popular Culture. 
Role of the United Nations and International Agencies 
Field study


The theme list has more recently been refined to become more organized and broader as follows:


A Geo-Politics and Philosophy. 
B Business Start-ups; Small Business Development, Developing successful global business ideas and exploiting global markets; Business Models, Operations. 
C Social/Corporate/Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Ethics, and Philanthropy. 
D UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. 
E Popular culture and Cultural Entrepreneurship. 
F Human Resource, Leadership; Gender, Ethnicity, and Inclusion – Diversity and Equality. 
G Global Marketing; brands and social media. 
H Finance – Crowd funding, Crypto-currency, Block Chain, Financial dealings, business planning challenges and issues. 
I The Law and Global Entrepreneurship: Protecting your idea and Business - intellectual Property, patents, trademarks, counterfeiting. 
J Value Creation and Co-Creation; Internet of things; Innovation. 
K Your own option agreed with the Module Leader. * This could be a fusion of the above. 


The topic should be related to "issues and challenges" + other academic theories related to your chosen topic + some real-life examples/ statistics.

"The structure of your work could follow a journal article, business report format or a creative format agreed with the module leader. All these should be underpinned with an academic rigour" (module guide).


"Task 1: Choose a theme from the updated theme list; develop your individual topic and send to the local tutor for review and approval;
the task is an independent task, not related to the other tasks. Word count: 1200 to 2000 words. Cannot exceed 2000 words.Total:  40%. Use 4-5 academic references and 10-15 non-academic references" (source: https://josephho33.blogspot.com/2019/05/updated-info-about-assignment-global.html)
My suggested assignment essay structure

Title: A review of the topic of XXX in the theme of YYY
1. Introduction
*** need to specify essay objectives: 
E.g. objective 1. to examine the main issues and challenges as related to XXXX
        objective 2: to examine academic viewpoints, theories and findings from the academic literature as related to XXX
        objective 3: to provide some evaluative and summarized findings with some real-life examples and statistics for illustration on XXX

2. A discussion of the main academic ideas on XXX

3. A discussion of XXX with real-life examples and statistics

4. Concluding remarks

References
Appendix

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Issues and challenges could be spotted from UK study materials, writings from social media and academic journal articles. 

Next, pay some attention to the concepts specifically covered in the UK study materials.



Finally, a typical format of an assignment title can be:



An examination of the major issues and challenges of [an activity theme] [e.g. crowd funding, value co-creation, branding, philanthropy, networking], with special regard to [a particular group of actors] [e.g. a particular sector, a particular country, a particular type of entrepreneurs (e.g. female), start-up enterprises, etc....].


***Make sure it is clearly related to a chosen theme option.

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