Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

The aims of this module are to equip students with an in depth knowledge of the innovation process, its importance to the economy and an understanding of the factors affecting its success.

The aims of this module are to:

• To introduce students to the field of entrepreneurship
• To assess the roles entrepreneurship plays in modern societies and economies and in an international context.
• To explore the different types of activity contained within the definition of entrepreneurship, and the main theoretical and analytical approaches used to understand the phenomenon.
• To examine entrepreneurial and innovative activity at different stages of a business, from start-up to more mature firms, and relate this to wider contexts.

The aims of this module are to equip students with an in-depth knowledge of the various funding options available to a new venture and the processes involved in obtaining financial backing. Students will learn about developing a new business and preparing a pitch to an investor.

The aims of this module are to equip students with the necessary academic insights about and be able to reflect critically on organizations (companies) positioning in their competitive environment and assessing companies' preparedness for facing competition.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a working knowledge of typical quantitative and qualitative research methods used in the research undertaken in the different institutes at LU London.

The aims of this module are to equip students with background knowledge of business planning and strategy execution with simulated experience of running a company.

We will look at a variety of frameworks for assessing entrepreneurs, products, markets, industries and operations to understand (1) the importance of thorough market/product analysis and (2) the operation of a new venture and the dynamic nature of strategy.

Conceptual foundations are matched with practical training to enable students to formulate and execute their business strategies.

The aims of this module are to:

• Familiarise students with key concepts in sociology and the sociological study of work and employment
• Provide a historical and comparative perspective on the development of work and labour markets since the industrial revolution
• Explore the various economic, political and cultural forces shaping the organization of work and labour markets
• Understand the factors contributing to job quality.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a knowledge of the various types of intellectual property, searching intellectual property databases, the legal basis of intellectual property rights, the application process for obtaining intellectual property and its importance to the innovation process and the entrepreneur.

The aims of this module are to:

• introduce the topic of family business
• examine the role that family businesses play in economies
• consider the different ownership and governance structures of family firms
• explore the drivers and processes that are unique to family firms
• develop an understanding of the strengths and inherent weaknesses of this type of firm, and the impact this can have on business strategy, and on outcomes such as entrepreneurial activity and sustainability.

The aims of this module are to develop strategic market analysis skills through the use of forecasting and future scenarios.

The aims of this module are to:

• Provide students with an opportunity to be exposed to project-based teamwork in diverse settings (understood in this context as involving a range of multidisciplinary, multicultural and demographic elements in differing configurations), aiming to strengthen their cooperative and collaborative working skills and competence, while raising awareness and appreciation of diversity itself.
• Provide students with hands on experience of identifying, framing and resolving practice oriented and real-world based challenges and problems, using creativity, critical enquiry and appropriate tools to achieve valuable and relevant solutions.
• Support the development of students' ability to engage in critical enquiry and individual reflection, as well as to apply individual strengths and skills, building on their own educational backgrounds.
• Provide students with opportunities for networking with stakeholders, organisations and corporations, aiming to enhance the competence and skills needed to connect to relevant parties and build up future professional opportunities.

The aims of this module are to:

• Examine organisational failure, the threat of failure, and their effects at various levels of analysis and key stages in the organisational life cycle
• Identify the underlying logics and social, economic and political contexts that define and shape organisational success and failure
• Analyse the role, responsibility, and accountability of various organisational stakeholders in contributing to or preventing organisational failure.

The aims of this module are to expose students to the process of start-up business acceleration through the application of the tools, practices, and feedback of lean start-up methods. Students will be expected to identify, develop, test, and accelerate an early-stage business 'start-up'. They will be exposed to four intensive workshop-based 'sprints' including 'Foundation Discovery', 'Business Model', 'Traction Roadmap', and 'Validation Plan', corresponding to the start-up phases of problem, desirability, viability, and feasibility.

Course content will be delivered through intensive workshops, online tools via the Leanstack learning management system, peer-to-peer support, and academic and practitioner mentoring. Collectively, through these structures the module will culminate in either the launch or acceleration of a business concept as expressed through a business model and 'pitched' to external venture capital, accelerator, or angel investors.

The aims of this module are to give the student the opportunity to study a subject, business problem or research question in depth and to research the issues surrounding the subject or background to the problem.
The module will equip the student with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on their individual research project and they will be guided through the three options available to them to complete their dissertation:

• A desk based research project that could be set by an organisation or could be a subject of the student's choice
• A project that involves collection of primary data from within an organisation or based on lab and/or field experiments
• A full professional placement within an organisation during which time they will complete a project as part of their role in agreement with the organisation (subject to a suitable placement position being obtained)

Students will achieve a high level of understanding in the subject area and produce a written thesis or project report which will discuss this research in depth and with rigour.