Entrepreneurship Development Program

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
30 Nov 2025 Zurich, Switzerland $ 4,950 Register

Entrepreneurship Development Program

Introduction

This course does what it takes to get you out of your couch working on your ideas to bring them to life. It will help you understand how to start a business tooling you up with the ability to analyze and assess the available opportunities and putting you on the way towards your next endeavor. Join us, gain knowledge on different market entry modes, regardless of the nature of industry or market, and develop the ability to establish comprehensive business models starting from micro-industry and all the way to small and medium industries. At the end of this course, you will have good knowledge of the components of a healthy business and you will be able to identify, assess and mitigate the risks of doing business in different environments. “An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he will quickly learn how to chew it”! This course will help you understand what this means and find out the main characteristics of the mind and deeds of an entrepreneur. It also tools you up with the very fundamental principles and techniques you will need in launching your business, from identifying the needs, building your team and business, down the road to maneuvering and expanding. A new form of entrepreneurship is developing. Instead of focusing on one country, today’s innovative start-ups are looking globally for ideas, funding, people, and markets. This course is designed to introduce you to the theory and reality of taking an entrepreneurial business international or global in both established and emerging markets. As developing and growing entrepreneurial and innovative businesses, they are very different from managing, large established businesses in an international or global context. This course explores the special problems and advantages associated with entrepreneurial small and medium enterprises as well as re-interpreting the skills you have acquired into a global context. You will explore International entrepreneurship theory, diverse approaches to entrepreneurship as well as cultural and business environments across countries. You will also examine opportunity recognition and selection, innovative business strategies and look at ways to source appropriate finance in established and emerging markets while also being aware of entrepreneurial ethics and sustainability in a globalized economy.

Objectives

    Learn how to turn a good idea into a business opportunity with this introductory course that paves your way towards starting your own small business. It takes you to step by step from understanding and analyzing the market to then ensure business continuity and manage the possible failure scenarios.

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

All professionals who are looking for starting up their own business and others in all organizations.

Course Outline

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

  • Evaluate the issues and challenges facing global startups and outline how they affect both Australian and international companies aiming to go global at early stages in their development and growth.
  • Assess the personal qualities of a global entrepreneur and explore the opportunities as to whether, when and how you would like to become a global entrepreneur.
  • Compare managing a local, developing, and growing entrepreneurial and innovative business to managing a large established business in an international or global context.
  • Transfer and apply your existing capabilities and skills into an international or global context for entrepreneurial startups.
  • Overview of Learning Activities
  • In this course, you will be encouraged to be an active learner. Your learning will be supported through various in-class and online activities comprising individual and group work. These may include quizzes; assignments; prescribed readings; sourcing, researching and analyzing specific information; solving problems; conducting presentations; producing written work and collaborating with peers on set tasks or projects.

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