Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
The Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurial Performance & Economics seeks to ensure that MBA students will experience a stimulating environment for entrepreneurship which exposes them to a rigorous understanding of entrepreneurship and facilitates the development and launch of new business ventures.
The elective on 'Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation' takes the students along the entrepreneurial life cycle and covers start-up, growth and exit including aspects such as entrepreneurial management, venture strategy, intellectual property rights and antitrust law, economics and finance. This learning environment is provided in a practical real world setting where students who want to start up their own venture can do so as part of the learning process. Students who take this path are able to secure MBA credits for the activity and have direct access to the Cranfield University Incubation Centre. Likewise, the entrepreneurship programme affords opportunities for students to join new ventures linked to the Centre's network and range of activities. For more information about the Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation elective click here.
For many years business plan presentations and competitions have formed part of the entrepreneurship elective. As part of the full-time MBA the Venture Capital Report prize is offered for the best business plan pitch at the end of the elective. The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) sponsors the prize for the best business plan pitch on the Executive MBA entrepreneurship elective. For information on the 2009 CMI sponsored prize winners click here. For further information about the current MBA entrepreneurship elective click here.
The pictures below from left to right show: 2007 full-time MBA Venture Capital Report prize winner, 2009 full-time MBA 2009 Venture Captial Report prize winner and judges, 2008 executive MBA CMI business pitch prize winner.
The winning team of students also represents Cranfield at the annual European Business Plan of the Year Competition (EBYPC), the oldest and most prestigious business plan competition in Europe. This year Cranfield School of Management is hosting the 2010 EBPYC. For more information about the competition, including participating schools, guidelines and sponsors, click here
The Bettany Scholarship for Entrepreneurs is being offered by the School of Management and is worth up to £14,000 towards tuition fees. Successful candidates can choose whether to study the Full-time or Executive MBA programme. For further information please click here.
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