By the end of the course participants will have a substantial understanding of tools for facilitating entrepreneurial skills among their students. They will get teaching guidelines for teaching core entrepreneurial competencies, including business modelling, design thinking and business planning.

The specificities of different forms of entrepreneurship will be emphasised (i.e. social, women, technology, local and eco entrepreneurship). The Course Week by Week

 

1) Introduction to Ecopreneurship, Critical global challenges and research sources, the triple bottom line (economics, environment, society)

 

2) Eco-efficient and eco-effective design, products and services, eco-industrial design and development. Ecological accounting systems – MFA, MIPS, etc.

 

3) Emerging Markets – needs, opportunities, incentives

 

4) Getting Started: strategy for a new green business, Positioning, Pitching, Writing a business plan

 

5) Bootstrapping, recruiting, raising money (and midterm)

 

6) Operating and Managing a startup

 

7) Branding and Marketing, Accounting, Finance, and Legal Issues

 

8) Green business for the 21st Century (and presentations and final)

 

Module 1

Introductory meeting, explanation of practical arrangements, presentation of timetable, information about course venue.

 

Module 2

– Icebreakers, personal learning & action plan, introduction to entrepreneurship.

– Managing pupils’ expectations about the entrepreneurship course, challenges of technology in entrepreneurship.

– How to include icebreakers into the entrepreneurship course

Module 3

Contemporary business models, canvas business modelling, innovation practices, 5 € challenge.

Study visit in innovative company.

Module 4

– Lean start-up, creating, finding and pursuing business opportunities.

– Excursion.

Module 5

– Different approaches to market and users analysis.

– Field work: users analysis.

– Users data interpretation.

– Challenges in teaching design thinking.

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Ecopreneurship

The course – creating a green business

 

The sustainability revolution will create many opportunities for ecopreneurs who create new green businesses, services and products. Key areas for improvement: renewable energy, improving energy and water use efficiency, water harvesting, using natural materials, replacing goods with services, dematerialization, and biomimicry. Ecopreneurship is easy to understand, but challenging. Ecopreneurs are individuals and teams who conceive new green business opportunities and who take on the risks required to convert these ideas into reality. They may do it to make money, to gain recognition, to enjoy the process or innovation, or to solve problems they realize are critically important.

 

RESOURCES EMPLOYED

Toolkit (Techniques to allow students to develop and put their ideas to work)

• Design Thinking Ideation and prototyping techniques

• Sarasvathy effectual thinking framework

• Edward De Bono

• Business Model Canvas

• Design tools

• Value chain analysis

• Workshop (Empowerment) School location induction

• Collaboration and execution (Ownership) through online collaboration

• Presentation eportfolio