The unit will systematically provide educational leaders and educators with a framework leading to the acquisition of entrepreneurship concepts and expose participants to the key issues faced by an entrepreneur who ventures into a new business. It will also enable them to acquire the awareness of the role of the entrepreneur in business creation and that entrepreneurship is a manageable process that can be applied in all organisational contexts. This unit will further enable participants to demonstrate the meaning and importance of the entrepreneurial mindset and how this is derived from a novel approach in the teaching of entrepreneurship, and in developing soft transferable skills and competencies. This course aims to empower its participants to:

a) Comprehensively develop a mindset, and set of skills, that enable individuals to identify and make the most of opportunities, overcome and learn from setbacks, and succeed in a variety of settings,

b) Critically identify the set of characteristics associated with successful entrepreneurs,

c) Adopt differing teaching styles of entrepreneurship, with particular reference to Malta, and how these can lead to the development of the entrepreneurial mindset,

d) Systematically acquire the ability to lead a team of educational leaders which can develop and implement an entrepreneurial mindset teaching programme,

e) reflexively devise and determine the role and impact of mentoring in the teaching of the entrepreneurial mindset,

f) Systematically manage the creative transformation from “idea to market”,

g) Systematically understand the concept of entrepreneurship within an educational context,

h) Critically demonstrate awareness of the differing types of entrepreneurship and how these can be applied in different circumstances,

i) comprehensively identify the many linkages between entrepreneurship and new business creation,

j) Comprehensively identify and systematically analyse all aspects of marketing, particularly value proposition and market research that underpin successful start-up businesses,

k) Apply specialised theoretical and practical Knowledge underpinning entrepreneurship,

l) Systematically appreciate how entrepreneurs manage risks in new business ventures,

m) Demonstrate the various environmental factors, external to the individual, which can influence the extent of entrepreneurship in new business venture.