Free Online Course from Edx: Entrepreneurial Opportunities

edX platform is offering a free online course in business for anyone aspiring to be an entrepreneur – regardless of the industry or type of venture you might have in mind.

Course Description:

This course offers an overview of the guiding principles that underpin the entrepreneurial process, providing you with practical tips and grounded theory to evaluate your entrepreneurial opportunity, team and resources. You’ll explore some of the myths and key facts about entrepreneurship, and find out what it takes to be an entrepreneur, so that you can conduct your own self-assessment and identify priorities for your own growth as an entrepreneur. You’ll learn how to unlock your creativity and innovation to help you generate more and better entrepreneurial ideas. And you’ll bring it all together in a capstone activity designed to help you evaluate the entrepreneurial opportunity you have identified.

In this course, you will work with the expert team at the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre at the University of Adelaide. They have experience as entrepreneurs and investors and have facilitated the establishment of many successful businesses.

What you'll learn:

1. Practical tools to evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities based on research of characteristics of exceptional opportunities
2. How to unlock your creativity and innovation to generate entrepreneurial ideas
3. The fundamentals of successful entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial teams and how entrepreneurs access resources

Course Length:

5 Weeks (2–3 hours per week)

The instructors:

1. Noel Lindsay, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Entrepreneurship, The University of Adelaide
2. Wendy Lindsay
3. Zrinka Tokic
4. Diana Lucic

Note: You can pursue a Verified Certificate to highlight the knowledge and skills you gain by paying $50

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