Module Title
Entrepreneurs for Occupational Therapy - creating professional innovation
Keywords
Return to work, widening professional skills, emerging areas of work, creating innovation, complexity,partnership |
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Prerequisites for Module
BSc (Hons) or equivalent in a relevent health or social care discipine.
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
The aim of this module is to enable the student to identify and critically reflect on their existing and potential entrepreneurial skills in relation to innovative professional or service development.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Critically reflect on the skills which demonstrate creativity and enterprise in professional performance and service delivery.
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Critically evaluate the practical integration of core enterprise skills to contemporary and future practice
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Indicative Module Content
Overview of idea generation and opportunity evaluation; integrative working; creative problem solving and innovation techniques; creating competitive advantage; opportunity recognition, examine entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship looking at the skills that entrepreneurs bring to the workplace, contrast these with the traditional management skill-set, career planning, self marketing techniques. The enterprise simulation will give students a better understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses as a potential entrepreneur.
| Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Part Time | Online discussions
| 6 |
Directed Study
| | Online learning activities
| 20 |
Private Study
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| 24 |
Mode of Delivery
Online discussions, online learning activities and private study.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Component 1 | 1,2
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All learning outcomes are assessed by coursework.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | BURNS, P., 2011. Entrepreneurship and small business : start-up, growth and maturity. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
| | 2. | SCARBOROUGH, N. M., 2011. Essentials of entrepreneurship and small business management. Boston, Pearson.
| | 3. | In addition students will be directed to appropriate professoinal web-sites, professional journals and texts.
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Additional Notes
This module may be suitable for Return to work Practitioners or graduates who wish to update/review their skills
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