This is an advanced module and designed for students who have studied management topics previously. The content will cover complex topics which are not suited to students with no prior knowledge of subjects related to the field.

Most academic entrepreneurship courses are about how to start a new venture. This course explores the question why by looking at what's happening in global entrepreneurship.

It starts by positioning entrepreneurs as agents of change in the world economy, and looks at how this change is manifested differently around the world. It is suitable for future game-changers, but also for anyone who wants to understand the role that entrepreneurs, institutions and organisations play in driving innovation in business and society.

Global Entrepreneurship considers the economic and social impact of entrepreneurs, their interactions with institutions, how opportunities arise and are evaluated, and the role of social enterprise and entrepreneur philanthropy in the economic cycle. The course includes strategies for assessing the potential of new business concepts, and introduces frameworks to assess and to mitigate key risks to new ventures including those relating to personnel, markets and technologies.

It looks at how culture - national and organisational - creates the environment to support new venture creation and manage risk around that venture. It uses case studies of some of the most globally successful ecosystems such as Silicon Valley, to explore how environment interacts with the innovation process. It asks who are the global entrepreneurs of the future, and where will they come from?

Governments, investors and regulators might all support entrepreneurship according to particular ideas of what 'value' is. Hence we include the role of public institutions in exploring some of the values, risks and behaviours that support, and sometimes clash with, entrepreneurship around the world. Included in our discussions are how entrepreneurship could further disrupt what has been viewed as traditional business operations.

Some businesses, and even regions of the world, are more able to innovate than others. What will this mean for the global distribution of value creation in the future?