This course provides you with a wide range of transferrable business knowledge and skills you will need to succeed in any industry of your choice.   Skills you will acquire include marketing, managing staff and operations, understanding accounts, conducting research and strategic planning to support business growth.

The course also helps you develop specialist knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship and small business management.  You will learn how national culture and economic factors influence entrepreneurship, and particularly the importance that small social enterprises have to the social economy.  You will evaluate the personality traits and individual characteristics that predict entrepreneurial success, giving you a theoretical and practical foundation for successfully starting and running a small business.