This module aims to equip you with a set of skills and experiences that give you a unique insight into how policy decisions often get negotiated. The module is based around a simple scenario which is used as a hook to teach a set of skills important for policy entrepreneurship. There will be a number of taught sessions based around standard lectures which cover what policy entrepreneurship is, how to be influential, and how to interact effectively. The Moodle is set up based on the key actors and skills central to the scenario. Below you will find the key academic reading for this session below the learning outcomes. Many of the classes will be sessions where you will need to undertake meetings with the other actors in the group for the scenario. Please refer to the timetable tab on this moodle to see what is supposed to happen in which forthcoming sessions. Learning outcomes The principle learning outcomes for this module are: Be able to explain what policy entrepreneurship (PE) is based on research Have a first-person experience of PE from one of three angles Understand the role and interests of ministers, civil servants and business in PE Practiced at a major skill in policy entrepreneurship Narrative and purpose of the course This course is designed to give you real insight into what ‘policy entrepreneurship’ means both in academic and – more importantly – practical terms. It picks up where STEP0001 leaves off, enabling you to try out and experience a range of skills which collectively orchestrate policy making in developed nations. You will learn how to be a ‘policy entrepreneur’ by giving you a broad overview of the geography of the space where policy is made, and a set of tools and skills. The course can be seen through different tripartite lenses: Skills: Meeting, writing and thinking Background/actors: business, policy, politics Approach: listen, practice, reflect The course is designed so you get first a set of skills training sessions run by experienced experts in those fields. Then you have an extended scenario where you will role play one of three actors in the policy entrepreneurship space: a business leader, a civil servant or a minister. Through the scenario you will understand both the motivation of the actor whose role you assume and how the goals of each actor interact to lead to the kinds of negotiations that underpin policy entrepreneurship. Towards the end of the scenario you will hear from three different actors across this space: business leaders, civil servants and those interacting within political leaders at a national and international scale. Finally, you will have a chance to reflect on what you have learned across the various materials.