This course is designed to foster the development of enterprise or entrepreneurial skills for postgraduate students. It is offered to all postgraduate students as part of the University of Hull's postgraduate research training programme (which is a range of optional modules which postgraduate students can choose from).
The course is delivered entirely online using the University of Hull's virtual learning environment. Students work though a series of ten linked units. Content includes: problem solving and creativity processes (for example SCAMPER and Osborn-Parnes approaches), idea finding exercises, basic market research, idea shaping and solution finding, patents and intellectual property, social funding and cash flow, marketing an idea, preparing business plans, and launching a product and reflective learning. Each of the 10 linked units includes a short summative assessment with students submitting their work online via a 'drop box'. At the end of the course students produce a final project which includes a business plan and presentation to a potential funder.