Entrepreneurship and Business (Hons) University of Portsmouth

Overview

Overview

In today's challenging business world, organisations of all sizes need people who can demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset, with creativity and innovation beyond every day business and management practices. This course will help you develop these skills.

You'll learn to:

• understand how to spot opportunities
• create value through effective business model design
• develop new products and services and bring them to market

• foster creativity and manage innovation within an organisation

If you have a new business idea that you're passionate about, then this course will help you bring it to life in a supported environment. You'll be able to develop your idea through our practical modules and you'll get lots of support from our dedicated start-up team.

But you don't need to have a business idea to do this course. Many of our graduates go on to apply their skills in managing innovation, new products and growth in an existing business. Our curriculum supports you equally, whether you wish to run your own business, or want to apply your knowledge and skills in an existing organisation.

• Experience a practical course, where you'll apply your knowledge to real-life projects, such as helping local businesses in our Business Consultancy Project, developing your own venture, or setting up a social enterprise
• Understand the processes of innovation and change in a business and how these can stimulate growth and competitiveness
• Gain an understanding of how different business models work and how these generate value in a variety of contexts
• Benefit from the workshops, drop-in sessions and funding opportunities provided by our student start-up team
• Be mentored by one of our successful Entrepreneurs in Residence
• Use a placement year to develop your own business (or work in another innovative business)
• Learn in one of the UK's most entrepreneurial cities – between 2019 and 2020, the number of new businesses launched in Portsmouth grew by 33% (InstantOffices survey 2020)

• Gain an understanding of how all the parts of a business work together and rely on each other

100% of graduates from this course are in work or further study 15 months after graduation according to the latest HESA Graduate Outcome Study.

Several of our students set up their own business during the course, or go on to run their own business after graduation. Many others, however, go on to apply their skills in existing businesses, particularly in the areas of product development and marketing.

Post-Covid the business development skills you'll learn on this course are likely to be more needed than ever. The Harvard Business Review recently wrote that:

"Companies seeking to emerge from the crisis in a stronger position must develop a systematic understanding of changing habits.....they must highlight anomalies and challenge mental models, revamp their business models and invest their capital dynamically."

Previous graduates of this course have secured jobs at companies such as:

• Origin Kitchen
• Cera Data
• Buckinghamshire Council
• Magnolia
• Worldwide Business Research
• The Future Factory

Graduates of this course have secured jobs within 15 months of graduation as:

• director of sales
• data consultant
• business consultant
• business intelligence and insight officer
• business development representative
• sales executive

(Data sourced from HESA Graduate Outcomes Survey)

You could also choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level.