Certificate in The Entrepreneurial Mindset.
Learn to identify, assess, shape and act on opportunities, whether you are developing a new venture, introducing innovation inside an existing organisation or turning an idea into a practical initiative.
Entrepreneurship is a mindset before it becomes a venture.
The entrepreneurial process is not limited to start-ups.
Entrepreneurial thought and action can be applied to opportunities across different organisations, industries and settings, including innovation within an existing organisation.
This programme develops the concepts, analytical tools and practical methods needed to recognise opportunities, assess their potential and move an idea towards launch and implementation.
The programme connects entrepreneurial thinking with innovation and practical value creation for stakeholders and society.
What you should be able to understand and do.
Understand how entrepreneurial thought and action can be applied to new ventures as well as innovation within existing organisations.
Understand fundamental concepts and analytical tools used to evaluate opportunities and develop entrepreneurial ventures.
Use a methodology for moving an idea from initial concept towards launch and implementation.
Develop, define and present a new business concept or initiative clearly, efficiently and compellingly.
From opportunity to implementation.
Recognise a problem, need or opportunity worth exploring.
Examine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and the assumptions behind the idea.
Test the concept with potential users and assess whether it responds to genuine needs and wants.
Develop the proposition into a clear concept that can be planned, presented and taken forward.
Seven learning stages from entrepreneurial foundations to presentation.
The current published course outline begins with an introduction to entrepreneurship and then progresses through validation, ideation, creation, business planning and project presentation.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Explore the entrepreneurial process, understand the entrepreneur, examine entrepreneurial characteristics and skills, and consider the benefits entrepreneurship can create for the individual and community.
Customer interviews
Learn tools for effective customer interviews and test whether a proposed product or service meets the needs and wants of intended users.
Idea generation
Explore effective idea generation, creative capacity, brainstorming and self-gap analysis.
Opportunity assessment
Evaluate strengths and weaknesses, understand opportunities and threats, and use tools and techniques for more effective assessment.
Test user needs again
Return to customer validation and use interviews to examine whether the evolving product or service continues to respond to user needs and wants.
Business planning
Work through the steps involved in defining and creating a complete business plan.
Project presentation
Develop presentation techniques, practise the elevator pitch and consider how the target audience affects the way a concept should be communicated.
A good idea still needs evidence.
Customer validation appears twice in the programme’s published curriculum, reinforcing the importance of checking assumptions before moving further with a concept.
Entrepreneurial thinking therefore involves learning from intended users rather than relying only on the entrepreneur’s own assumptions.
The goal is to move from thinking to doing.
The programme is designed around the practical application of entrepreneurial thought and action to real opportunities.
The final stages focus on turning an opportunity into a defined concept, developing a business plan and communicating the idea to an intended audience.
Certificate of Achievement from YUVA Academy.
Participants who complete the course receive a Certificate of Achievement from YUVA Academy.
The programme page identifies YUVA Academy as an MQA-registered Training Institution.
Awarded by YUVA Academy following completion of the programme.
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Apply to join the programme.
Admission is selective. YUVA Academy currently publishes an acceptance ratio of 1:5 and states that applications are reviewed carefully.
Applicants should complete every question using their own experience, knowledge and good judgement.
Complete the YUVA Academy application form directly below this section.