Entrepreneurship (Team Enterprise and Innovation) BSc(Hons)

Course structure

With no lectures or exams this programme is built around working in a team, launching your business ideas and developing your enterprise. In your first few weeks you’ll form your team business with other students and work on real projects with the potential to generate income while learning.

As a Team Entrepreneur, you'll work in an open, collaborative and creative office environment alongside other professionals and entrepreneurs in our new School of Business and Law building, Elm House.

Based on four themes of learning, you will learn to develop key skills:

• personal skills: self-learning, taking responsibility and adapting to new situations
• business skills: taking the initiative, making things happen, networking, managing risk-taking
• teamwork skills: learning and sharing, reflecting, communicating, negotiating
• innovation skills: identifying opportunities, creative problem solving, assessing value creation.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. If you apply to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through Student View.

Team Academy Approach

This course is inspired by the Finnish Team Academy philosophy, which was developed at Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences (JAMK). The approach focuses on students working in teams and learn-by-doing by running their own businesses with real money and real customers.

Our School of Business and Law has joined the small number of UK universities offering this course. We have chosen to use our expertise to focus our course on cultivating innovation in students.

Find out more about the Team Academy approach from lecturers and students at Jyväskylä University in Finland.

Innovation

This course follows the Finnish ‘Team Academy’ philosophy, the emphasis of Brighton is on nurturing innovation in students.

Our research centre, the Centre for Change, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (CENTRIM), works with partners to produce groundbreaking ideas to improve innovation, entrepreneurship and change management.

The expertise developed in our CENTRIM research will feed into this course, enriching its scope and ensuring the latest concepts in innovation are passed onto you.

Examples of how CENTRIM projects will support your business enterprise development include:

• The use of platforms and tools developed to help SMEs to innovate through our wide-ranging projects: Profitnet, INSPIRE and, specifically for social enterprises, SPARK.
• Students will benefit from the strong relationships that CENTRIM has established with local business, such as the Green Growth Platform and the BRITE project in conjunction with our innovation accelerator partner, PLUS X.

Year 1

In your first year, you will work together in teams to research and set up your venture. You’ll learn the importance of teamwork and how to become an effective team member. You’ll investigate the key elements of a business, create your company strategy and implementation plan and look at how to build innovation into your thinking. 

Modules

• Managing My Learning: Building a Learning Portfolio 
• Building a Venture Company 
• Working in Teams: Tools, Knowledge and Understanding
• Managing Innovation: Skills and Competencies

Year 2

In your second year, you will have the opportunity to experience different roles within the team and learn how to build on strengths for essential team effectiveness to enable the success of your venture.

You’ll learn about personal development, resilience and the importance of stakeholder management. You’ll identify opportunities for entrepreneurial initiatives and how to apply appropriate innovation techniques. 

Modules

• Managing My Learning: Reflecting, Renewing and Developing My Learning Portfolio
• Developing Business Start-ups 
• Working in Teams: Evidence Building and Developing Performance in Teams
• Using Innovation in the Twenty-first Century

Final year 

Your team will be working towards a successful and responsible business. You will assess your progress and learn ways to grow a responsible business.

You will explore leadership styles and reflect on their effectiveness and impact. You’ll gain experience of learning directly from industry professionals who will give you feedback and guide your learning. This will help you to identify new opportunities for open innovation and agility, and other ways in which you can grow your venture. 

Modules

• My Learning: Competences and Skills Portfolio
• Leading and Growing Responsible Business
• Competence Performance in Team Working
• Open Innovation and Agility: Management and Innovation Skills

How you will be assessed

On this course you’ll learn by setting up and managing your team business; by researching about different business concepts, modules and practices and applying them in real business activities for example meeting with clients, pitching for business ideas, creating business and marketing plans, managing cash flow etc.

Throughout your course you’ll collect and provide a portfolio of evidence from your activities and study, and your assessments will be based on three levels; your individual activity, your team’s and your venture’s.

For example, instead of written exams you will demonstrate your learning through projects, written reports, presentations and essays – all of which will reflect your research and lessons learned from running different roles and activities in a real venture.

As in the workplace; self-reflection, feedback from peers, customers, suppliers, partners and team coaches are also an integral part of your assessment, and will take place continually across all your modules.

If you have any questions about how you will be assessed, please contact: Despoina Kanellou, the course leader for more information.

Staff profile

Despoina Kanellou, course leader
Despoina is a Research Fellow at Brighton Business School and course leader for the Entrepreneurship (Team Enterprise and Innovation) BSc (Hons). She is a member of the Research Centre for Change Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (CENTRIM) and an active researcher for the last 20 years on contemporary innovation management issues, and has been involved in many different research projects at European and international level.

Despoina’s research interests are in organisational learning, peer-to-peer learning, open innovation, innovation policies and action research methodologies. Despoina is one of the main contributors to the work of Learning Networks, including the Profitnet Impact Case Study, and has been working for many years with SMEs and other organisations on creating methodologies and strategies for companies to innovate and learn from each other as well as from external partner organisations.

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What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included, while studying a course in Brighton Business School are listed here.

• Students who choose to take an optional placement will have travel and living expenses. The cost of this depends on where and how long your placement is.
• Some courses include optional field trips for which the school pays – you may incur minimal costs such as for food and drink and should budget up to £15.
• You will be required to buy textbooks and should budget up to £150.

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The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2021–22.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

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