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Entrepreneurship (Team Enterprise and Innovation) BSc(Hons)

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Intro

If you have ever wanted to strike out and set up your own business then this ground-breaking course will show you how to do it. You’ll start up and run a real business venture from the first semester and learn through actually running a business. 

Inspired by the Finnish Team Academy approach, this non-lecture-based experiential learning course is suited to those who want an alternative to a traditional degree and are looking to develop and practice entrepreneurial skills. 

This new course will begin in September 2021.

Key facts

Location Brighton: Moulsecoomb

UCAS code N19C

Full-time 3 years

This new course is in the final stage of development and may change. Check back for the latest information. 

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Half of young people (18-30) in the UK think their age is a barrier to business success with nearly a third lacking the confidence they need to turn their idea into a reality.

Innovate UK, 2020

Course content

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.

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.

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Innovation

While this course follows the Finnish ‘Team Academy’ philosophy, the emphasis of our course 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.

Despina Kanellou

Careers

Preparing for your future

This unique course develops your entrepreneurial skills ready to launch your own business or demonstrate your credibility as an employee within dynamic, changing organisations.

You’ll have tested yourself in a real business environment and gained invaluable personal knowledge and understanding to choose your own career direction.

You may continue to run your team venture on a full-time basis, further developing the skills and practices that you have learned during your degree.

Beepurple

Beepurple is the university’s entrepreneurship support network. It offers free support for any student or graduate for their business ideas, freelance plan or social enterprise project.

Beepurple runs events throughout the academic year, designed to equip you with skills that will improve your employability and help you grow a successful business.

By taking part in Beepurple activities, you will meet like-minded people, hear how other recent graduates have set up their own businesses and gain key enterprise skills that will help you stand out from the crowd.

For more information visit beepurple.

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Industry/professional links 

Primarily this course supports you in establishing your own business. By working in a team you’ll create lifelong contacts as well as learning from the experiences of our coaches, lecturers and guest lecturers, including industrial contacts and alumni.  

Located next to Plus X’s Innovation Hub in Brighton, you’ll be able to make connections with local innovators based in a building designed to drive positive productivity, collaboration and world-class connectivity. 

We’re also partnering with Plus X and Coast to Capital on a brand new innovation programme, Brite, which launches in summer 2020. 

You’ll work in your own open office environment in the brand new Brighton Business School academic building which is set to open for 2021 entry, next to Plus X innovation hub.

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Plus X's Innovation Hub is next to our Moulsecoomb campus.

Team Academy 

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.

Brighton Business School 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.

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

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Hear UK Team Entrepreneurs reflect on their experiences and how the skills that they have gained transformed their working lives

Further study  

This degree also opens up a range of postgraduate study options. At Brighton, for example,  you could progress on to

  • ACCA Accounting MSc
  • Economics and Finance MSc
  • Management MSc
  • Marketing MSc.

Supporting your employability 

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

  • Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
  • Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
  • Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
  • Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
  • Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
  • Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

Find out more...

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Entry criteria

Entry requirements

A-levels or BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level BBB–CCC (120–96 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DDM–MMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range.

International Baccalaureate
26 points, with three subjects at Higher level.

Access to HE Diploma
Pass with 60 credits overall. Units in business or management required. At least 45 credits at level 3, with 24 credits at merit or above.

Foundation degree/HND
May enable you to start the course in year 2. Relevant subjects required.

In addition to meeting these academic requirements, applicants are asked to submit a five-minute video of themselves talking about why this course is right for their future plans and giving two examples of entrepreneurial initiatives that they have undertaken during the last two years. Applicants will then be invited to book a time to discuss their ideas with the course leader.

Videos should be uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo (unlisted) and the link included in your UCAS application.

Don't meet these entry requirements?
If you are able to demonstrate a capacity for entrepreneurial thinking and are business driven with a motivation to self-learn, we will be able to consider you for this course even if you do not meet the entry requirements. 

Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton, and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3. 

English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
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Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
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Bahrain
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Belarus
Belgium
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Brazil
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Burma (Myanmar)
Cameroon
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Chile
China
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Cyprus
Czech Republic
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Ecuador
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Finland
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Indonesia
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Malta
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Oman
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Slovenia
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Spain
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Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
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United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
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Zambia
Zimbabwe

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Fees

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,250 GBP

International (full-time) 13,572 GBP

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.

You can chat with our enquiries team through the Stay in touch panel at the end of this page if you require further information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships, as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

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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.

Location

Local area

About Brighton

The city of Brighton & Hove is a forward-thinking place which leads the way in the arts, technology, sustainability and creativity. You'll find living here plays a key role in your learning experience.

Brighton is a leading centre for creative media technology, recently named the startup capital of the UK.

The city is home to a national 5G testbed and over 1,000 tech businesses. The digital sector is worth over £1bn a year to the local economy - as much as tourism.

All of our full-time undergraduate courses involve work-based learning - this could be through placements, live briefs and guest lectures. Many of these opportunities are provided by local businesses and organisations.

It's only 50 minutes by train from Brighton to central London and less than 40 minutes to Eastbourne. There are also daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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Campus where this course is taught

Moulsecoomb campus

Two miles north of Brighton seafront, Moulsecoomb is our largest campus. Subjects taught here include architecture, business, computing, construction, engineering, geography, product design, law and pharmacy.

On campus you will find professional-standard facilities including a flight simulator, trading room, design and digital media suites and specialist research laboratories, alongside the library, student centre, a nursery, fitness facilities and Students’ Union. There are excellent public transport links.

The Big Build
A major transformation of our Moulsecoomb campus began in summer 2018. By the time the Big Build is complete, there’ll be new halls of residence, academic building, and Students’ Union and fitness facilities – all created with sustainability, inclusivity and community in mind.

As the development grows it will provide many exciting learning opportunities for our students, ranging from live projects, placements and internships with the companies involved to guest lectures and site visits. Find out more...

The Big Build

Accommodation

Brighton: Moulsecoomb

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students.

Halls of residence
We have halls of residence across Brighton in the city centre, Moulsecoomb, Varley Park and Falmer.

  • You'll be prioritised for accommodation in the halls that are linked to your teaching base, subject to availability.
  • Moulsecoomb campus is linked to Varley Park and Moulsecoomb Place halls. All halls are self catered, but if you prefer you can add in a food and drink plan.
    • Varley Park offers a mix of rooms. It is around two miles from Moulsecoomb campus and four miles from the city centre. Public transport in the city is excellent, and there’s a shuttle bus between our Brighton campuses during term time.
    • Moulsecoomb Place halls are all self-catered and are located right on campus.

Want to live independently or in a university-managed house? We can help – find out more about unihomes and unilets or private renting.

Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Halls

Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Park

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Relaxing in halls near the campus

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Students eating at the Hub

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Charlotte Horwood 

Charlotte Horwood, Senior Web Trader at Figleaves

“I’m hugely proud to be a Brighton Business School graduate, as studying for my degree equipped me with ample employability skills. Not only was I provided with a great education, but living in the eclectic and diverse city of Brighton made me more cultured, expressive and dynamic. 

“After finishing university, I was delighted to be granted a place on Tesco’s Graduate Scheme. I was only in my first role as a buyer for nine months, as although I learnt a lot, I quickly decided this wasn’t for me.

Studying Business at Brighton meant that I had an understanding of multiple potential career paths and therefore had the confidence to pursue different areas.”

You can read Charlotte's full story on our blog.

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Frank Meacey 

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Frank Meacey is third-year student. After studying the core economics module in his first year, Frank discovered an interest in financial foreign exchange, leading him to choose the Business Management with Economics pathway. Frank also went on to take a placement at World First Foreign Exchange in Westminster, London, allowing him to explore whether this could be a career choice for him, and to gain some practical transferable skills whilst on placement. Frank was also awarded the Alumni & Friends Award at our 2018 Excellence Awards for his second-year work.

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