Entrepreneurial learning in an experiential and competences training context: A business plan in Bachelor thesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 100513
Author(s):  
Jaime E. Souto ◽  
Ángel Rodríguez-López
Keyword(s):  
Business Plan ◽  
Training Context ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning

scholarly journals An exploration of the Business Plan Competition as a methodology for effective nascent entrepreneurial learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayleigh Watson ◽  
Pauric McGowan ◽  
James A. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
New Venture Creation ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneur

Purpose Business Plan Competitions (BPCs) are readily prescribed and promoted as a valuable entrepreneurial learning activity on university campuses worldwide. There is an acceptance of their value despite the clear lack of empirical attention on the learning experience of nascent entrepreneurs during and post-participation in university-based BPCs. To address this deficit, the purpose of this paper is to explore how participation in a university-based BPC affords entrepreneurial learning outcomes, through the development of competencies, amongst nascent entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach Underpinned by a constructivist paradigm, a longitudinal qualitative methodological approach was adopted. In-depth interviews with nascent entrepreneur participants of a UK university-based BPC were undertaken at the start and end of the competition but also six months after participation. This method enabled access to the participant’s experiences of the competition and appreciation of the meanings they attached to this experience as a source of entrepreneurial learning. Data were analysed according to the wave of data collection and a thematic analytical approach was taken to identify patterns across participant accounts. Findings At the start of the competition, participation was viewed as a valuable experiential learning opportunity in pursuit of the competencies needed, but not yet held, to progress implementation of the nascent venture. At the end of the competition, participants considered their participation experience had afforded the development of pitching, public speaking, networking and business plan production competencies and also self-confidence. Six months post-competition, participants still recognised that competencies had been developed; however, application of these were deemed as being confined to participation in other competitions rather than the routine day-to-day aspects of venture implementation. Developed competencies and learning remained useful given a prevailing view that further competition participation represented an important activity which would enable value to be leveraged in terms of finance, marketing and networking opportunities for new venture creation. Research limitations/implications The findings challenge the common understanding that the BPC represents an effective methodology for highly authentic, relevant and broadly applicable entrepreneurial learning. Moreover the idea that the competencies needed for routine venture implementation and competencies developed through competition are synonymous is challenged. By extension the study suggests competition activities may not be as closely tied to the realities of new venture creation as commonly portrayed or understood and that the learning afforded is situated within a competition context. Competitions could therefore be preventing the opportunities for entrepreneurial learning that they purport they offer. Given the practical importance of competition participation as a resource acquisition activity for nascent entrepreneurs, further critical examination of the competition agenda is necessary as too is additional consideration about the design of such competitions and how such competitions should feature within university policy to support new venture creation. Originality/value This study contributes to the limited literature and studies on BPCs by focussing on its effectiveness as a means of providing entrepreneurial learning for participants. The key contribution taking it from an individual nascent entrepreneur participant perspective is that the competencies afforded through competition participation are more limited in scope and application than traditionally promoted and largely orientated towards future BPC participation. Learning is mainly situated for competition sake only and about participants securing further resources and higher levels of visibility. As the nascent entrepreneurs intended learning outcomes from competition participation are subsequently not realised, the study highlights a gap between the intended and actual outcomes of competition participation.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Learning through Pramuka Activity

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Dulatip Dulatip ◽  
Ifit Novita Sari ◽  
Dwi Fita Heriyawati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Self Confidence

Pramuka is a form of non-formal education that becomes a place in the implementation of Pramuka education. In Pramuka activities, its members are trained with various skills, including leadership, discipline, self-confidence, mutual help, and independence. Its activities are generally carried out in the open with fun, interesting, directed activities by the basic principles and Pramuka methods. In general, Pramuka activities are only filled with the same activities, but in Sudirman Kalipare High School, Malang Regency has innovations for Pramuka as extracurricular activities by incorporating entrepreneurial learning. As a result, students are increasingly honed in their creativity and find a breakthrough to developed into an entrepreneurial venture with low capital and maximum results. Jendral Sudirman High School Scout Contingent won 1st place in the Sangga Putri Business Plan in the Pramuka Achievement Competition in the Bali-Bali Level VIII 2019.

Pelatihan Business Plan pada UMKM di Desa Koto Rendah Kecamatan Siulak Kabupaten Kerinci

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-132
Author(s):  
Musnaini Musnaini ◽  
Besse Wediawati ◽  
Zulfina Adriani ◽  
Rts Ratnawati ◽  
Dessy Elliyana
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Usaha Mikro Kecil Menengah (UMKM) yang berada di Desa Koto rendah, Kecamatan Siulak, Kabupaten Kerinci adalah bentuk Kelompok Usaha Bersama (KUBE) dari ibu-ibu rumah tangga yang mempunyai usaha bisnis dalam kuliner, pembibitan, pengolahan hasil pertanian dan perkebunan sekitar yang mereka miliki maupun penduduk setempat. Kegiatan pengabdian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilan mengenai kemampuan untuk melakukan perencanaan bisnis (Business Plan). Selain itu, untuk memberikan peningkatan keterampilan dalam merencanakan bisnis menggunakan bisnis model. Metode yang akan digunakan untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut adalah dengan pelatihan dan pendampingan membuat rencana bisnis dalam lembar kerja bisnis model canvas.Kata Kunci : UMKM, KUBE Business PlanABSTRACTSmall and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) located in Koto low Village, Siulak Sub-District, Kerinci Regency is a form of Joint Venture Group (KUBE) of housewives who have business ventures in culinary, nursery, processing of agricultural products and plantations. This devotional activity is to improve knowledge and skills regarding the ability to making a Business Plan. In addition, to provide improved skills in businesses plan using business models. The method that will be used to achieve that goal is by training and mentoring business plans in canvas model business worksheets.Kata Kunci : UMKM, KUBE Business Plan

I contest universitari in europa. Una comparazione e una proposta tipologica

2018 ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Chiara Bonomo ◽  
Guido Bortoluzzi ◽  
Stephen Mbieke Ndula
Keyword(s):  
Business Plan

Non esiste praticamente università o ente di ricerca che non organizzi una qualche competizione di idee o tra business plan. Questo articolo mette in luce, da un lato, l'ampia varietà tipologica presente nel contesto europeo per questo tipo di competizioni. Dall'altro lato, il lavoro si propone di identificare una tipologia universale di tali contest. Ciò sia al fine di consentire una migliore classificazione, e pertanto studio, di questi contest che, nonostante etichette simili, possono avere contenuti molto diversi. Sia al fine di permettere alle università, agli enti di ricerca e, più in generale, agli enti organizzatori di migliorare il livello di coerenza tra gli obiettivi impliciti (ed espliciti) di tali competizioni e la loro organizzazione interna (ed esterna).

Investigating the Potential for Training Context Effects to Influence Forensic Document Examiners' Relative Skill at Writer Individualization and Exclusion

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonya Trubshoe ◽  
Bryan Found
Keyword(s):  
Context Effects ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Training Context ◽  
Training Set ◽  
Blind Trial ◽  
Relative Ability ◽  
Trial Test ◽  
Case Files ◽  
Document Examiners

The relative ability of forensic document examiners (FDEs) to provide support for the proposition of individualization or exclusion on the basis of handwriting features was investigated by surveying opinions expressed in case files by one laboratory’s FDEs and comparing this data to blind trial test results taken over a five year period. The survey of FDEs opinions on reports showed that opinions were skewed towards support for writer individualization over writer exclusion 92% of the time. Since historically FDEs develop their skills with respect to individualization/exclusion primarily on case files, it is proposed that this unbalanced training context may skew their abilities to carry out the tasks. To determine one laboratory’s capacity to correctly provide both individualization and exclusion evidence, results of blind validation trials were analyzed. For natural writing written and not written by the specimen writer, FDEs were 62 times more inconclusive when providing support for exclusion of the specimen writer when the specimen writer did not author the questioned sample, than they were for providing support for individualization when the specimen writer wrote the questioned sample. An intriguing possibility is that because of the unbalanced training set, government FDEs may acquire skills which are skewed towards individualization over exclusion.   Purchase Article - $10

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