Overview
Learn from current theory and the practical experiences of socially and environmentally minded entrepreneurs to gain insight into how organisations can contribute to solving complex grand global challenges.
Learn from current theory and the practical experiences of socially and environmentally minded entrepreneurs to gain insight into how organisations can contribute to solving complex grand global challenges.
About this paper
| Paper title | Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Practice |
|---|---|
| Subject | Entrepreneurship |
| EFTS | 0.1500 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,053.30 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- ENTR 102 or ENTR 112
- Restriction
- ENTR 202
- Schedule C
- Commerce
- Contact
- Teaching staff
- Dr Elizabeth Nichols
- Teaching Arrangements
The paper is taught seminar style with a mix of lectures, guest speakers, and learning activities.
ENTR 212 has off-campus field trips held during scheduled seminars.
- Textbooks
Textbooks are not required for this paper.
- Course outline
Course outline for ENTR202 in 2024 (the course outline for ENTR212 will be available in mid July 2025).
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Environmental literacy, Lifelong learning, Critical thinking, Ethics, Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Research, Teamwork, communication, communication.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.- Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper will:
- Respond to external environmental trends/opportunities through social and environmental perspectives
- Describe sustainable entrepreneurship and how it creates value for society
- Implement sustainable business models in multiple ways
- Work effectively as a team to produce high quality professional communications
- Assessment details
- Team poster - 20% of final mark
- Historical research into an early Dunedin entrepreneur
- Individual field trip reflections - 30% of final mark
- Reflection on the student's experience of visiting social enterprises
- Three field trips @ 10% each
- Team live case study - 30% of final mark
- A live case study that will unfold during one of the weeks. A report is due the week following the presentation - 20% of final mark
- Presentations in class - 10% of final mark
- Individual storytelling - 20% of final mark
- This assignment draws on the power of narrative to think about how to create ventures that can bring about social and environmental change. Explain how the venture contributes to the UN SDGs.
- Team poster - 20% of final mark