Entrepreneurship and Business Development (Taught)

Feed your entrepreneurial spirit as you gain an in-depth view of business development. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills you’ll need to drive your business’s future.

Developing your business can give you greater freedom and flexibility. You’ll gain the knowledge and skills you’ll need to take control of your business’s future on this master’s programme.

On this course, you’ll:

• Enhance your entrepreneurialism while you develop a broad overview of business

• Develop your individual management style and skills so you can create, establish and lead your own ventures

• Gain the knowledge and confidence to implement new strategies within an established company to drive change, encourage innovation and help the business flourish

• Experiment with new ideas as you work closely with industry professionals

• Learn to identify opportunities and risks to develop a viable business venture or project

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Learn collaboratively

This course will enable you to explore critical-thinking patterns. You’ll study problem-solving and decision-making techniques to share and reflect upon with your peers.

Develop your communication skills

You’ll study professional interactions to identify strong communication and relationship building techniques. By developing these skills, alongside solid emotional intelligence, you’ll understand the key to managing and sustaining complex business partnerships.

Learn from experts

You’ll learn from a highly skilled and research-active teaching team. They are experts in a range of subjects, including:

• Enterprise

• Innovation

• Entrepreneurship

• Marketing

• Management

Be guided by a mentor

This course will enable you to work with a professional mentor. Your mentor will be a business practitioner able to provide you with practical support and advice. With their guidance, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a real-life enterprise or start-up project. Your project will be an opportunity to practise identifying and implementing solutions and making decisions. You’ll manage the process from start to finish.

Why study Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Leeds Beckett University...

• Develop expert management skills – you’ll be primed to create, establish and lead your own venture

• Build your network - work closely with industry professionals

• Gain real-life experience – you’ll have the opportunity to work on a real-life enterprise or start-up project

• Mentoring opportunities – access practical support and guidance from a professional mentor

• Guest lectures – benefit from insight through our guest lecture series