MBS 7104:

ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Facilitator

Cathy Ikiror- Mbidde, PhD

0701 365586
cimbidde@gmail.com
Office: Block B 3.6B
CTF2: MakEIC 4.2
Self introductions

 Your name
 Current employment status
 Your professional background

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 What are your expectations?
 Be able to run the business at a larger scale
 Able to develop more businesses
 New business management skills *
 Motivated to start something
 Acquire skills on how to manage my business to manage
the uncertain future
 Able to analyze and mitigate risk. Or sell/do something
 Missing gap on how to expand my investment
 Better myself in career development and growth
 Learn what not to do based on experience
 Learn how to be different in the market
 My own growth
 How to sell Jesus better, Networking 3
Expectations cont’d

 Explore my full potential

 Make a difference and creating innovations
 New knowledge in entrepreneurship
 Better my marketing
 Support someone’s business
 Business success
 Tips on how to identify more business lines
 Adventure into other benefits of entrepreneurship Vz
Making money
 To become PhD
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Lecturers’ expectations

 Participation

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Course Outline

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Objectives
3.0 Learning outcomes
4.0 Assessment
5.0 Content
6.0 Sourcing information

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1.0 Introduction

 Entrepreneurship perspectives
 Behavior
 Study
 Entrepreneurship is a business course and blends with
other units
 Focuses on development of entrepreneurial and
entrepreneurial approaches
 Theoretical and Practical

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What is Entrepreneurship

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2.0 Course objectives

 To provide students with an understanding of

entrepreneurship how it can be harnessed in today’s
competitive environment.
 To explore entrepreneurial gaps/challenges, find
solutions and manage them.
 3.0 Learning outcomes
 On completion of this course, students should be able to:
 Understand the entrepreneurial mindset
 Assess the theoretical and practical perspectives.
 Apply design thinking principle
 Identify opportunities and develop a model
 Conduct a feasibility study
 Develop a business plan or project proposal
 Pitch a project at a public breakfast meeting

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 4.0 Content
1. Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
2. Design thinking process: Creativity and innovation
3. Feasibility analysis
4. Business and project planning
5. Business/project management and growth:
6. Global entrepreneurship perspective
7. Contemporary issues: Gender , Green, Social and Ethics

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5.0 Sources of reading
materials
 https://mulib.mak.ac.ug
 Ebscohost
 Emerald insight
 Google scholar

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6.0 Assessment

 Course Work 40%

 Identifying district challenges
 Selecting the best
 Pitching
 Exam 60%

 Total 100%

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Course Work

 Form a team of 5-10 members.

 Each member should I identify 1 or 2
problems/challenges in a district.
 All members present their findings and a report is
submitted. A zoom link will be shared for presentations.
 As a team identify the most feasible project to be
implemented.

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Course Work Cont’d

 On 11th March we shall have a panel of experts to guide

the project development.
 On Saturday, 2nd April 2022 from 8:00am to 12noon all
teams will pitch their projects to the public at a hotel

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 Course work
Role of graduate entrepreneurship education in a country’s development.
 Each one select a district of your choice.
 Identify the challenges/problems in the district.
 Think of how to find a solution from an entrepreneurial perspective.
 Discuss it in your group.
 Review Uganda’s Third National Development Plan 2020/21-2024/25.

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Course work cont’d

 As a group, review all ideas and select the best project.

 Develop a project proposal to be presented to experts
from diverse backgrounds: scholars, policy makers, civil
society, funders and development partners.

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Any questions?

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