This course focuses on ways in which entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas, and organize resources to plan successful ventures that enable them to achieve their goals. Students will create a venture plan for a school-based or student-run business.Through hands-on experiences, students will have opportunities to develop the values, traits, and skills most often associated with successful entrepreneurs.

 

Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs

Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:

• analyse the characteristics and contributions of enterprising people;
• compare the characteristics and contributions of various entrepreneurs;
• ​assess their own entrepreneurial and enterprising potential.
   

Ideas and Opportunities for New Ventures

Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:

• explain the importance of invention and innovation to venture creation;

• analyse various methods of generating ideas and identifying opportunities to satisfy needs and wants;

• generate realistic new ideas and identify possible opportunities for a school-based or student-run business;

• conduct primary and secondary marketing research to evaluate the idea or opportunity for their proposed venture.
   

The Benefits of a Venture Plan

Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:

• assess the importance of having a venture plan
• ​analyse the structure and content of a venture plan;
• ​explain how to evaluate and revise a venture plan.​

Developing and Completing a Venture Plan for the Proposed Business

Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:

• analyse the resources required to run their chosen venture;
• complete the components of an effective production plan for their chosen venture;
• ​complete the components of an effective marketing plan for their chosen venture;
• ​complete the components of an effective financial plan for their chosen venture;
• produce,usingappropriatesoftware,aventureplanfortheirchosenventure.

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