Gentrep Module
Gentrep Module
ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND
GENTREP
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Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have
to see things as opportunities all the time.
Soledad O’Brien
COURSE INTRODUCTION
We live in the entrepreneurial age, an age that has evolved from and will be as
important as the industrial age and the information age before it. In these preceding
ages, humans have learned the importance of using the sciences and information in our
pursuit of satisfying our individual and collective needs. The entrepreneurial age is not
meant to replace them, but to extend them as our human society marches on, as it
continues to evolve.
In the industrial age, humans have learned to organize ourselves as we learned the
value of harmoniously working together and of contributing whatever each one is best at
in our collective effort to achieve our common aspirations. And even then, organizations
thrived through entrepreneurial efforts manifested by the innovative, change-adept and
risk-taking minds that led and comprised them. It is through these mind sets, these ways of
thinking and of living that organizations provide solutions to the various crucial
environmental and societal problems that we face. As organizations respond to the call for
innovation, jobs are created, societal problems are solved, the world is transformed and
the entrepreneurial individuals, organizations and societies profit.
As the governments in highly progressive countries have long realized, the Philippine
government has also seen the need to develop entrepreneurial mind set in young Filipinos,
which led to the approval of the Youth Entrepreneurship Act in 2015. Following this initiative,
the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd)
have endorsed the inclusion of Entrepreneurship in Senior High School education and of
The Entrepreneurial Mind as a general course offering in tertiary education, respectively.
Hopefully, through these actions, students may come to develop the entrepreneurial mind
set and to adopt the perspectives of entrepreneurship and apply it in their chosen field of
discipline and profession.
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Through this course, GENTREP, you learners are expected to transform your mind set
into an entrepreneurial mind set. This does not mean to change your chosen program into
the BS Entrepreneurship program, but for you to become entrepreneurial. This course aims
to introduce to you the two concepts of being entrepreneurial – an entrepreneurial: one
who is an undertaker, that is, one who organizes resources for productive outputs by
establishing his or her own enterprise; and an entrepreneurial: one who has a growth-
oriented, independent, goal-oriented, risk-managing, resilient, opportunity-recognizing,
and designing mind. Entrepreneurial: this is what we envision our GENTREP learners to
become – imbued with the Christian Spirit, competent, creative and socially involved
entrepreneurial Louisians of any and all disciplines – who will be part of a vast army of
innovative game changers, who will introduce transformative solutions to problems in their
respective disciplines, as we altogether do our best to address our societal and
environmental concerns.
This module serves as a reference to ensure that you will be guided on the course
activities, intended learning outcomes, and course requirements.
The content of this module is a compilation from different sources by Lorraine Ngaosi.
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WEEK Topic learning outcomes activities
Module 1 Journey to Self-discovery through entrepreneurship
1ST WEEK
1. Understand the significance of Engage: Know their personal values
SLU’s core values in entrepreneurial (6/16/2021) 10 pts
undertakings Explore: Exploring the principles of
2. Understand the depth knowledge entrepreneurship
of entrepreneurship and analyze its Explain: explain the need for being
relevance to your field of discipline. an entrepreneurial Louisian
3. Classify the different variations of Elaborate: Detail the steps in going
entrepreneurship into entrepreneurship
Evaluate: Personal vision/goals.
25points. 6/19/2021
Module 2 ENTREPRENEURSHIP DISCOVERY
2ND WEEK
Unit 1 Entrepreneurship and Economic development
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1. Understand the dimensions of Evaluate: The categories of
entrepreneurial orientation entrepreneurship, PEC and Mindset.
2. Distinguish an entrepreneurial 30 points. Due 7/1/ 2021
organization
NOTE: Submit Module 1 to module 3 activities before the midterm exam. Please check
date of submissions in the Google Classroom.
Module 4 PROBLEM EXPLORATION
FINAL COVERAGE -4TH WEEK
Unit 1 Understand your environment
1. Understand the different elements of Engage: personal flag. 20 points.
the business environment 7/05/2021
2. Apply techniques in environmental Explore: Explore the concept of
scanning; swot analysis business environment
Unit 2 Opportunity identification and Explain: Apply the problem based
evaluation method
Elaborate: Generate opportunities
1. Understand the relations of
opportunity identification and Evaluate: Business ideation. 30
evaluation in the area of your points. 7/08/2021
specialization.
2. Understand the role of opportunity
seeking competency and
opportunity recognizing mindset in
business ideation
3. Use the approaches in identifying
business opportunities
Module 5 SOLUTION DISCOVERY
5TH WEEK
Unit 1 Product ideation
1. Discuss the significance of creativity
Engage: Design your own; Rethinking
and innovation in the area of your on solutions to problems. 15 points.
specialization. 7/10/2021
Unit 2 Product Development Explore: Discover creativity
1. Understand the concept of product innovation
2. Understand the stages in product Explain: read creative and innovative
development process entrepreneurial actions this covid 19
3. Use the strategies in product crisis
concept generation Elaborate: creative responses on
4. Create a viable and sustainable new covid 19
or innovative product applicable in Evaluate: Final project; pitch 100
your field of discipline. points; written-50 points. 7/21/2021
Submit Final requirements before the end of finals. Please check date of submissions in
the Google Classroom.
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TERM DATES
MIDTERM EXAM July 2-3, 2021
FINAL EXAM July 24 & 26, 2021
Once you know that you have the entrepreneurial passion, examine if you have the
skills needed to become a superb entrepreneur. Do you have what it takes to be an
entrepreneur? Do you have the right stuff to be an outstanding entrepreneur– the mindset,
the attitudes, the competencies? Can you perform the roles and tasks of an entrepreneur?
Do you think and behave like one? These are some of the questions that you should consider
during your entrepreneurial assessment. As you will see, answering ‘no’ to these questions
does not mean that you should not be an entrepreneur or cannot be entrepreneurial; it only
means that you are not yet one, but can become one as you develop through this course.
This stage is the core of Module 1, Module 2 and Module 3 of this course.
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The fourth stage is the business model discovery where the business opportunity is
turned into business reality by planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling its
resources and performance. Likewise, this is the implementation stage.
The last stage is the growth discovery which is the stage where strategies are
develop to keep the business going and to derive the most benefit from.
Self-discovery
Growth Problem
discovery discovery
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entrepreneur or entrepreneurial Louisian, create an amazing idea in the real world. Hence,
this module will give you an insight on what entrepreneurship is and its significance to your
field of discipline. It will help you understand the schools of thought of entrepreneurship
and the categories of entrepreneurship, which will further help you decide which
entrepreneurship is applicable to you according to your field of discipline.
Moreover, this module will allow you to revisit the core values of Saint Louis University
and align them to your personal values which eventually be aligned to your personal and
professional vision. Your values such as competence, creativity, Christian spirit, social
involvement, passion, and commitment are what our society needs. These are the
groundwork of any organization’s success. Hence, this module 1 will take you to the
discovery of your values.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of module I, you should have achieved the following topic learning outcomes:
1. Understand the significance of SLU’s core values in entrepreneurial undertakings
2. Understand and have an in-depth knowledge of entrepreneurship and realize its
relevance to your field of discipline.
3. Classify the various forms of entrepreneurship
The topics to be tackled in order to realize the topic learning outcomes are the following:
1. Personal values discovery
2. Understanding entrepreneurship
• Why entrepreneurship education?
• Evolution of entrepreneurship
• Definition of entrepreneurship
• Myths of entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial schools of thought
3. Categories of entrepreneurship
ENGAGE ACTIVITY
PERSONAL VALUE DISCOVERY: Think of your ten values, including your four Louisian values,
that are significant in your decision making and rank them as to importance. Write them in
the boxes provided.
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
Of the ten, which is the most important for your decision making? Elucidate your reasoning.
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Topic 1: Personal Values Discovery
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own
heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”. Carl Jung
What does Carl Jung mean with this? Living without perusing what is in your heart is
just like living in a dream—somebody else’s dream. To be awake is to look inside your heart.
When you look inside your heart, you will discover a lot about yourself—who you are, what
you want, what you believe in. Hence, when you look inside your heart, your vision
becomes clear.
So, do you look inside or do you look outside your heart? Let us have a simple test if
you look inside or outside your heart with this question. Whose decision it is for you to enroll
in your program/major? Was it your own decision or other’s decision. If it was your decision,
why did you enroll your program? If other’s choice, why?
If your program is somebody else’s choice, then you were looking outside, thus, you
were living in a dream—somebody else’s dream. If it was your choice, then you were
looking inside—living awake to chase your vision.
Why having a vision significant? Vision gives you direction. Having a clear vision is
following the journey you set for yourself, not the path your parents, family, friends, or the
society would want you to follow.
You make big decisions on your own. Having a vision will direct you to a sound,
intelligent decision to take.
Personal values. Personal values are foundation of your vision. These values
describe your core as a person. Moreover, values give you clarity and help you build up
your self-awareness. Your highest values will serve as guide in creating better decisions and
results leading to a more balanced life. This explains the engage activity. Thus, when
making important decisions in life, check if decisions are aligned to your core values.
Thus, find time for your personal values discovery. Know not only by your head, but
more with your heart. Whether you start an enterprise or be an employee, remember that
your decision-making will always impact people, environment and the next generation.
Hence, it is critical that you always think of the values you deem are most important. These
values become core of your company.
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As you are the one who decides your own life, reflect on yourself and find what you
love to do. In your reflection, find how can you contribute to this world. Contribute in this
world through your values, passion, and vision. You can find “life meaning” from this.
When you have discovered your values, which are your standards for your decision
making, you need to find partners who are in agreement on your decision making
standards (values). Someone who shares same values with you can be a great partner.
Thus, when you create for your team in your entrepreneurial project look for people whom
you share same values.
In the same vein, your personal values, vision, mission and goals are foundation for
your company vision and mission.
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Topic 2: Understanding Entrepreneurship
This topic introduces you to the world of entrepreneurship. It commences with an
understanding of the need to learn entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurial Louisians
As emphasized in the introduction of this course, this entrepreneurship course is for you
learners to ignite your entrepreneurial spirit and to be innovators in your chosen career
path and thus, able to introduce changes in your field of discipline – changes that
transform the world for the better.
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It has been observed that in the past, students’ creativity are wasted. How? Learners’
creative outputs are dumped in the storage rooms. With entrepreneurship education,
learners may be able to see the opportune use of their creative outputs and turn
them into reality.
Evolution of entrepreneurship
The word Entrepreneur is derived from the French entreprendre, meaning “to
undertake.” It was a term coined by Richard Cantillon, a French economist.
a. The entrepreneur is one who undertakes to organize, manage, and assume the
risks of a business.
b. Although no single definition of entrepreneur exists and no one profile can
represent today’s entrepreneur, research is providing an increasingly sharper
focus on the subject.
Definition of entrepreneurship
Ø Entrepreneurship is a mindset. It is not only about the creation of a business, but rather it
involves seeking opportunities, taking risks beyond security and having the tenacity to
push an idea through to reality.
Ø In the book of Kuratko, an integrated definition states that entrepreneurship is a
dynamic process of vision, change, and creation.
Ø Essential components of entrepreneurship include the following:
• The willingness to take calculated risks—in terms of time, equity, or career.
• The ability to formulate an effective venture team; the creative skill to marshal
needed resources.
• The fundamental skills of building a solid business plan.
• The vision to recognize opportunity where others see chaos, contradiction, and
confusion.
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and better able to seize opportunities, and provides a foundation for entrepreneurs
establishing a social or commercial activity.”
Myths of entrepreneurship
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• Not all experience failure. Some succeed after some failure, and some fail
because they are yet learning how to succeed.
Macro View. The macro view of entrepreneurship includes external factors that are
beyond the control of the entrepreneur, but could affect him/her.
Micro View. The micro view of entrepreneurship examines the factors that are specific
to entrepreneurship.
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• Focuses on identifying traits common to successful entrepreneurs. Believing that
entrepreneurs have traits common to them and that if you have these traits, you
could be a successful entrepreneur might prompt you to be an entrepreneur.
KEY POINTS:
Entrepreneurship is a MINDSET.
It is about CHANGE and DEVELOPMENT.
It is about CONSTRUCTION and VALUE CREATION.
It is about INNOVATION and CREATIVITY
It embraces RISK and UNCERTAINTY
A. Corporate entrepreneurship
B. Technopreneurship
This involves doing business with the use of technology in transforming ideas into
products; use of new technology in the enhancement of the existing operations. It is
said that the first use of term technopreneur was in 1987.
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A technopreneur is a new age entrepreneur who makes use of technology to come
out with something new to make new innovation.
(https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/technopreneur)
For example, it is the aim of SLU’s School of the Engineering and Architecture (SEA) to
produce learners who will be technopreneur engineers and architects.
C. Ecopreneurship
An ecopreneur is an entrepreneur whose business efforts are not only driven by profit,
but also by a concern for the environment (Schuyler, 1998).
D. Social entrepreneurship
This is a new form of entrepreneurship, which focuses on solving social problems through
innovation and risk taking; venturing into business in pursuit of a social mission. This is
different from the concept of corporate social responsibility. Characteristics of Social
Entrepreneurs as Change Agents are:
• Adoption of a mission to create and sustain social value (beyond personal value)
• Recognition and relentless pursuit of opportunities for social value
• Engagement in continuous innovation and learning
• Action beyond the limited resources at hand
• Heightened sense of accountability
These four varieties of entrepreneurship that were introduced here are applicable both to
BS Entrepreneurship and non-BS Entrepreneurship learners. You can also be an
intrapreneur, technopreneur, ecopreneur and social entrepreneur all at the same time.
ACTIVITIES
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C. As a person and a/an _____ who is professionally competent, I am....
D. As a person and a/an _____ who is creative and a critical thinker, I am....
2.Explain how developing each of the SLU core values in your life is compatible with learning
how to think and act like an entrepreneur. 7 to 10 sentences. (10 pts)
Short bond paper; 1-inch all borders; Arial 12. maximum: 2 pages
References
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (2012). Vocation of the Business Leader: A
Reflection
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Unit 1: Theories on Economic Development and the role of
entrepreneurship in economic development
This unit will present the different theories that will explain how economic
development happens in a society. You will come to understand that entrepreneurship
influence economic development in a community.
Learning outcomes:
The topics in unit 1 will enable you to:
ENGAGE ACTIVITY
Economic theories
Population changes
Economic development is influenced by population. Population growth leads to
increase in production (supply) and increase in consumption (demand). The effect can
either be economic development or economic stagnation.
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When population increases then demand and supply also increases. This means that
greater production and employment would follow. However, an increase in population
results to scarcity of resources that can lead to economic stagnation.
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plan for policies and programs that will support entrepreneurship growth. Most of these
programs are focus for the growth of MSMEs.
Learning outcomes:
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ACTIVITY
References:
Diaz, P., Fajardo, H., (2015). Entrepreneurship Study and Practice. Small Enterprise and
Research Development Foundation, Manila.
Small Enterprise and Research Development Foundation and UPISSI. (2007). Introduction
to Entrepreneurship. Revised edition, Manila 2007.
Small Enterprise and Research Development Foundation and UPISSI. (2013). Windows to
Entrepreneurship A teaching Guide. Manila, 2013.
Hence, in this module, you will assess your personal entrepreneurial competencies
and reflect on how you will be able to develop them. Similarly, you will assess your
independent mind, growth-oriented mind, goal oriented and effectuating mind, risk
managing mind, resilient mind, opportunity recognizing mind and your design mind.
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In addition, the module covers characteristics of an entrepreneurial firm as presented
by the concept of entrepreneurial orientation.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of Unit 1, you should be able to achieve the following topic learning outcomes:
1. Validate your entrepreneurial competencies
2. Develop your personal entrepreneurial competencies
ENGAGE ACTIVITY
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17. It’s a waste of time worrying about what to do with life.
18. I seek the advice of people who know a lot about the tasks I’m working on.
19. I think about the advantages and disadvantages or different ways of accomplishing
things.
20. I do not spend much time thinking about how to influence others.
21. I change my mind if others disagree strongly with me.
22. I feel resentful when I don’t get my way.
23. I like challenges and new opportunities.
24. When something gets in my way of what I’m trying to do, I keep on trying to accomplish
what I want.
25. I am happy to do someone else’s work, if necessary, to get the job done on time.
26. It bothers me when time is wasted.
27. I weigh my chances of succeeding or failing before I do something.
28. The more specific I can be about what I want out of life, the more chances I have to
succeed.
29. I take action without wasting time gathering information.
30. I try to think of all the problems I may encounter and plan what to do if each problem
occurs.
31. I get important people to help me accomplish my goals.
32. When trying something difficult of challenging, I feel confident that I will succeed.
33. In the past, I have had failures.
34. I prefer activities that I know well and with which I am comfortable.
35. When faced with major difficulties, I quickly go on to other things.
36. When I’m doing a job for someone. I make a special effort to make sure that the person
is happy with my work.
37. I’m never entirely happy with the way in which things are done; I always think there
must be a better way.
38. I do things that are risky.
39. I have a very clear plan for my life.
40. When working on a project for someone, I ask many questions to be sure I understand
what the person wants.
41. I deal with problems as they arise rather than spend time anticipating them.
42. in order to reach my goals, I think of solutions that benefit everyone involved in the
problem.
43. I do very good work.
44. There have been occasions when I took advantage of someone.
45. I try things that are very new and different from what I have done before.
46. I try several ways to overcome things that get in the ways to my goals.
47. My family and personal life are more important to me than work deadlines I set for
myself.
48. I do not find ways to complete tasks faster at work and at home.
49. I do things that others consider risky.
50. I am so concerned about meeting my weekly goals as I am for my yearly goals.
51. I go to several different sources for information to help with tasks or projects.
52. If one approach to a problem does not work, I think of another approach.
53. I am able to get people who have strong opinions or ideas to change their minds.
54. I stick with my decisions even if others disagree strongly with me.
55. When I don’t know something, I don’t mind admitting it.
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PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCIES: SELF-RATING SCORE SHEET
____ + ____ + ____ + _____ - _____ + 6__ =_________ DEMAND FOR EFFICIENCY AND
4 15 26 37 48 QUALITY
____ + _____ + ____ - ______ + ____ + 6__ =________ SYSTEMATIC PLANNING AND
8 19 30 41 52 MONITORING
____ - _____ + _____ + _____ + ____ + 6__ = _______ PERSUASION AND NETWORKING
9 20 31 42 53
Instructions
1. The correction factor (the total of items 11, 22, 33, 44, and 55) is used to determine
whether or not a person tries a very favorable image of himself. If the total score on this
factor is 20 or greater, then the total score on the ten PECs must be corrected to provide a
more accurate assessment of the strengths of the PEC score for that individual.
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Subtract the following number from each PEC score
**If the correction factor is
(correction value)
24 or 25 7
22 or 23 5
20 or 21 3
19 or less 0
PEC original score correction value corrected total
Opportunity seeking _____________ _______________ _______________
Persistence _____________ _______________ _______________
Commitment to work contract _____________ _______________ _______________
Demand for efficiency and quality _____________ ______________ _______________
Risk taking _____________ ______________ _______________
Goal setting ____________ ______________ _______________
Information seeking ____________ ______________ _______________
Systematic planning and monitoring ____________ ______________ _______________
Persuasion and networking ____________ ______________ _______________
Self-confidence ____________ ______________ _______________
Interpretation:
The highest score per PEC is 25. The nearer you are to 25, the stronger you are in that PEC item;
the closer you are to zero, the weaker you are in that PEC item.
Below the average score of 12.5 means a challenge to improve that PEC item.
However, I want you to look into your highest and lowest scores to interpret. Your highest score will
be your most strong competency and your lowest will be your most weak competency.
These are key personal entrepreneurial competencies that can determine successful
from unsuccessful entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs. These were identified
through an intensive research by Management Systems International (MSI) and McBer
Team. The 10 are grouped into 3 clusters; the achievement cluster, the planning cluster
and the power cluster.
A. ACHIEVEMENT CLUSTER
• Opportunity-seeking. Entrepreneurs seek opportunities and take the initiative to
transform them into business situations.
• Persistence. When most people tend to abandon an activity, successful
entrepreneurs stick with it.
• Commitment to work contract. Entrepreneurs keep their promises, no matter how
great the personal sacrifice.
• Demand for efficiency and quality. Entrepreneurs try to do something better, faster
or cheaper.
• Taking calculated risks. Taking calculated risks is one of the primary concepts in
entrepreneurship.
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B. PLANNING CLUSTER
• Goal setting. This is the most important competency because none of the rest will
function without it. Entrepreneurs set goals and objectives which are meaningful
and challenging.
• Information seeking. Entrepreneurs gather information about their clients, suppliers,
technology and opportunities.
• Systematic planning and monitoring. Systematic behavior means acting in a logical
way. Planning is deciding what to do. Monitoring means checking.
C. POWER CLUSTER
• Persuasion and networking. Entrepreneurs influence other people to follow them or
do something for them.
• Self-confidence. Entrepreneurs have a quiet self-assurance in their capability or
potential to do something.
(source: https://empretec.unctad.org/?page_id=30)
The topics here will enlighten you on what is entrepreneurial mind and the different
attributes that you need to develop in order to cultivate your entrepreneurial mindset.
Learning outcomes:
ENGAGE ACTIVITY
Activity 1: How Independent Thinking Are You?
https://www.docpotter.com/thifor-test.html
Openness
__1. I listen.
__2. I consider several points of view.
__3. I accept partial answers.
__4. I seek alternative explanations
__5. I define the core issues.
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__6. I am alert for bias.
__7. I resist emotional appeals.
__8. I examine the evidence.
Independence
__9. I clarify my viewpoint.
__10. I rely on my own judgment.
__11. I trust my instincts.
__12. I weigh expert’s advice before accepting it.
Values
__13. I live by a personal moral code.
__14. I consider what really matters to me.
__15. I tell the truth.
__16.I do what I say I will do.
Responsibility
__17. I am constantly improving myself.
__18. I don’t make excuses when I act badly.
__19. I examine my motivation.
__20. I weigh consequences.
Assertiveness
__21. I say what I think.
__22. I question what I see and hear.
__23. I take divergent positions.
__24. I speak up when someone is inappropriate.
Religious Openness
__25. I respect others’ religious beliefs.
__26. I interpret religious edicts for myself.
__27. I explore religious views different from mine.
__28. I question the views of my religion
Questioning Authority
__29. I follow my conscience.
__30. I speak up when people in authority do wrong.
__31. I do what makes sense, not just obey laws.
__32. I am skeptical of what people in authority say.
Interpretation
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You have considerable potential to think independently. Exercise your mental muscles by
deciding your opinion on issues. Begin by gathering diverse information then weight the
pros and cons.
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11. No matter who you are, you can
significantly change your level of
talent.
12. To be honest, you can’t really
change how much talent you have.
13. You can always substantially
change how much talent you have.
14. You can learn new things, but you
can’t really change your basic level
of talent.
15. No matter how much talent you
have, you can always change it
quite a bit
16. You can change even your basic
level of talent considerably.
Scoring and Interpretation
1. Reverse score items 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, and 14. That is, if your response to any of these
items is
1, change it to 6; 4, change it to 3;
2, change it to 5; 5, change it to 2;
3, change it to 4; 6, change it to 1.
2. Take the average of your responses to all 16 items.
3. If your average score is ≤ 3, you have a growth mindset; if your average score is > 3, you
have a fixed mindset.
Directions: Read each statement below and then check the corresponding box that shows
how much you agree with each statement. There are no right or wrong answers.
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6. All I have to do is to identify a
goal and claim its result and it
will automatically come to me.
7. In pursuit of my goals, I identify
the activities to be done and
the resources needed to do
them.
8. Even before I start doing the
activities, I make sure to
determine the proper
sequence of doing them.
9. I schedule the activities that I
need to do to achieve my
goals.
10. As much as I can, I follow the
schedule that I set for my goal-
related activities.
11. I tend to procrastinate in doing
the things that I’ve set to do.
12. I commit focused time each
day to doing whatever it would
take to move me toward my
goals.
13. Even if I am busy, I find time to
plan the things that I need to do
on a daily basis.
14. I write down beforehand what I
need to get done for the day.
15. I am aware that I may not be
able to achieve my goal on the
first attempt, so I prepare an
alternative or a backup plan,
just in case.
16. I constantly review my progress
and actively monitor my results
as I pursue my goals.
17. When I encounter a hindrance
or difficulty, I tend to be
discouraged and to lose the
desire to pursue my goals.
18. Even if the situation gets tough, I
will not abandon the goals that
I’ve set.
1. Reverse score items 6, 11, and 17. That is, if your response to any of these items is
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1, change it to 6;
2, change it to 5;
3, change it to 4;
4, change it to 3;
5, change it to 2;
6, change it to 1.
2. Take the average of your responses to all 18 items.
3. If your average score is ≤ 3, you have a goal-oriented and effectuating mindset; if
your average score is > 3, you need to exert more effort to develop this mindset.
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9. I feel positive about the future.
10. I worry about issues that I have
no control over.
11. Asking for assistance reveals
weakness.
12. When there is fundamental
change, I struggle to come
around to new ways of
thinking.
13. I have strong goals that are
clear in my mind.
14. I am able to discuss my
academics and its challenges
with people outside of school,
such as family members and
close friends.
15. I am more likely to say "yes"
than "no."
16. Failures are hard to forget and
successes are hard to
remember.
Interpretation:
16-37 - you have little resilient mind
38-59 -you are easily defeated but plenty of room for improvement
60-80 -congratulations, you are a resilient team member.
What is mindset
• Mindset is a mental attitude or inclination (Merriam-Webster)
• Mindset is the sum of your knowledge-beliefs and thoughts about the world and
yourself. (Thum, 2012)
• Mindsets can be shaped by an intentional awareness but are also driven by our
experiences. A mindset is a habit that requires practice (Bosman & Fernhaber, 2018)
What is entrepreneurial
• Undertaker- Richard Cantillon
• Creates value- Jean Baptiste Say
• Change agent/creative destruction- Joseph Schumpeter
• Resourcefulness and uncertainty- Howard Stevenson
• Opportunity-Peter Drucker
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entrepreneurial mindsets are often drawn to opportunities, innovation and new value
creation. (http://markets.ft.com/research/Lexicon)
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• Individuals who are independent minded are typically willing to stand up publicly for
what they believe.
• Has an internal locus of control
• Is interested in being perceived as unique; prefers acting in unique ways
• Desires to work with a high degree of independence
• Prefers tasks and situations with little formal structure
• Believes in one’s capability to successfully achieve goals
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• Resilience is important because it keeps us on track to achieve our goals, regardless
of the setbacks or problems that we may experience. According to Cary Cooper, Jill
Flint-Taylor, and Michael Pearn, resilience has four essential elements:
1. Confidence.
2. Social support.
3. Adaptability.
4. Purposefulness
Learning outcomes:
• Strategy- making practices that firms use to identify and launch entrepreneurial
ventures.
• Represents a frame of mind and a perspective toward entrepreneurship that is
reflected in a firm’s ongoing processes and culture.
• An entrepreneurial orientation involves:
- Strategy making practices used to identify & launch new ventures
- A unique frame of mind
- A perspective toward entrepreneurship
- Reflected in a firm’s ongoing processes
- Reflected in the corporate culture
- That permeates decision-making styles & practices of the firm’s members
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Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Orientation
Entrepreneurial Orientation
12-51
Innovativeness refers to a firm’s efforts to find new opportunities & novel solutions, and can
be promoted by:
§ Fostering creativity & experimentation
§ Investing in new technology, R&D, & continuous improvement
Problems can include:
§ Waste of resources if no results
§ Competitors may copy it more profitably
§ The investment may not pay off
Proactiveness refers to a firm’s efforts to seize new opportunities, and can be promoted by:
• Introducing new products or technological capabilities ahead of the competition
• Continuously seeking out new product or service offerings
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Competitive aggressiveness refers to a firm’s efforts to outperform its industry rivals, & can
be promoted by:
§ Entering markets with drastically lower prices
§ Finding successful business models & copying them
Risk taking refers to a firm’s willingness to act boldly without knowing the consequences,
and can be promoted by:
§ Researching & assessing risk factors, including business, financial & personal risk, to
minimize uncertainty
§ Using techniques that have worked in other domains
ACTIVITIES
Explain activity
Read: https://scottjeffrey.com/change-your-fixed-mindset/
Elaborate Activity:
visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zrtHt3bBmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWLgWCcpWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFKVoCuwl2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWr2gE5IlPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyN0XSTaMg
1. Look for people who qualify as intrapreneur, technopreneur, ecopreneur, and social
entrepreneur.
2. For each of the four personalities, relate a brief description of their business and explain
what makes them unique entrepreneurs. Include a) photo; b) business description and
rationale for being a unique entrepreneur maximum of 150 words.
3. For each of the entrepreneurs, identify and describe 3 PECS or entrepreneurial mind
attributes they have manifested. You may quote portions of your source article to
emphasize your point
4. Discuss how having these three competencies or attributes have contributed to each of
their entrepreneurial success.
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MODULE 4: PROBLEM EXPLORATION
With the discovery of your personal values, vision and mission and the development of
your entrepreneurial mind and strong personal entrepreneurial competencies, your
entrepreneurial journey continues with the discovery of new ideas or opportunities.
The focus of your discovery is to help people and society—emphasis is to search for
opportunities that solve problems in the society which are aligned to your specific
program.
ENGAGE ACTIVITY
Create your personal flag. In a bond paper, create a quadrant. In each box, write your
answers to the following:
A. Your strengths (minimum of 10) B. Your weaknesses (minimum of 10)
C. What you can give to other people D. How can you turn your weaknesses
(at least 5) into achievements
(at least 5)
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Environmental scanning
• An analysis and evaluation process that businesses use to understand their current
environment
• The aim is to identify trends, gaps, events, developments, and issues that will impact the
businesses.
• An analysis and evaluation process that businesses use to understand their current
environment
• The aim is to identify trends, gaps, events, developments, and issues that will impact the
businesses.
Macro Environment
Political
Legal
External Economic
Environment
Socio-cultural
Analysis
Technological
(opportunities
and threats)
(Porter’s 5 forces Micro Environment
model) The customers
The suppliers
Environmental
Scan The competitors
The society
Plans
Internal Policies
Environment Human Resources
Analysis
Financial Resources
Organizational Culture
(strengths and Machineries
weaknesses )
Business environment
This consists of the internal and external factors that affect how the company functions
including, but not limited to, the customers, management, supply and demand, and
business regulations. These are beyond the control of the business and they affect the
functioning of a business enterprise.
Micro environment
• Refers to the environment which is in direct contact with the business organization and
can affect the business straight away.
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• Is a collection of forces that are close to the firm and these forces are very particular to
the firm.
• Political Environment
• Centers on the role of the governments in shaping business
• Tax policies, changes in trade restrictions and tariffs
• Stability of the government and immigration policy
• Economic Environment
• Centers on economic conditions
• Interest rates, inflation rates, gross domestic products, unemployment rates, levels of
disposable income, and the general growth or decline of the economy
• Social Environment
§ Consists of the customs and traditions of the society
§ Includes the following:
• Standard of living
• Taste
• Preferences
• Education level of people
• Technological Environment
• Changes taking place in the method of production
• New equipment and machineries to improve the quality of product
• Physical/Natural Environment
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• Physical conditions within which the organization operates.
• Includes the following factors:
§ Natural disasters
§ Pollution level
§ Weather pattern
• Legal Environment
o Centers on how the law influence the business activity
o Includes the following factors;
§ Employment laws
§ Health and safety regulations
§ Discrimination laws
§ Anti-trust laws
The SWOT analysis will be used to assess your macro environment and your internal
environment. Thus, you will able to identify the strengths and weaknesses which are found
within the organization; and opportunities and threats that are present in the external
environment. The Porter’s 5 forces model is a tool used to assess your micro or competitive
environment.
SWOT Analysis
• Is a useful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for
identifying both the Opportunities open to you and the Threats you are faced with.
• The SWOT Analysis is sometimes called Internal-External Analysis
• Helps you to craft a strategy that distinguishes you from your competitors
• When carrying out your SWOT Analysis, be realistic and rigorous.
Topics here will introduce you to the generation of business opportunities from
scanning the environment and then screening these ideas generated to be able to select
the idea that can be turned into business opportunities.
Learning outcomes:
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1. Understand the relations of opportunity identification and evaluation in the area of your
specialization.
2. Comprehend the role of opportunity seeking competency and opportunity recognizing
mindset in business ideation
3. Use the approaches in identifying business opportunities
Key factors that will influence your business ideation process are your opportunity
seeking competency and opportunity recognizing mindset. With these competencies and
mind, you can easily recognize opportunities around you. Hence, the need to acquire
them. In the future, you can easily recognize employment and project opportunities.
“Great ideas are everywhere, hiding in plain sight. You just need to know where to
find them and mine them!” Stephen Key
OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION
Internal Environment- scanning your internal environment to search for business ideas. As
the enterprise is not yet existing, the internal environment that you will scan will be yourself.
So, identify ideas from your passion, skills, talents and hobbies. Business ideas may sprout
within you.
External Environment. Identify business ideas through an analysis of the current situation in
the external environment. This is the primary reason why you internalize the different
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business environment. Approaches to business opportunity identification through study of
the external environment are:
2. Solving Problems
• Sometimes, identifying opportunities simply involves noticing a problem and
finding a way to solve it.
• These problems can be pinpointed by observing what’s lacking that causes
people to suffer or be inconvenienced; sometimes, this could be done
through more simple means, such as intuition, serendipity, or change.
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to sample before buying a quantities of bath and
larger bottle body products
Fred Smith 1973 Inability to get spare parts Started a new company Federal Express
delivered on a timely basis to help others get
for his company, a jet- packages delivery in a
aircraft system timely manner
3. Finding Gaps
For example, in 2000, Tish Cirovolv realized there were no guitars on the market
made specifically for women. To fill this gap, she started Daisy Rock Guitars, a company
that makes guitars just for women.
During this Covid 19 crisis, there is a market need for PPEs. One of the companies
that fill the gap is Fila.
OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION
A critical element of opportunity recognition is assessing to what extent an opportunity is
viable in the marketplace. For an opportunity to be viable it must meet four criteria:
1. Attractive: There must be market demand for the product or service;
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2. Achievable: It must be practical and physically possible;
3. Durable: It must be attractive long enough for the development and deployment
to be successful; and
4. Value-creating: It must add value to the market.
SWOT ANALYSIS
In Unit 1 (module 4), SWOT analysis was discussed as a tool in scanning the
environment.
Swot analysis can also be used to screen business ideas in order to select the
opportunity. Once you derive the top 3 or top 5 ideas through the evaluation process,
screen them further using the swot analysis. Choose the idea that has positive factors
(strengths and opportunities) that can able to eliminate, overcome, minimize its
weaknesses and threats. Since the business is not yet existing, then use your strengths and
weaknesses related to the idea as the basis of evaluation.
The pandemic has brought a lot of changes to the way of life as well as in the
course of business. Moreover, it has created new challenges and trends in the area of
business ideation.
Dcode EFC analysis has presented a diagram of what business will and will not thrive
in Egypt during this pandemic as seen in the figure below. Though it is an analysis for Egypt,
it holds true in almost all economy. Those who are thinking of an entrepreneurial
undertaking may he guided by this data.
Most businesses affected tremendously by the pandemic crisis are those business that rely
on:
1. Physical gatherings.
2. Mobility of people
3. Non-essential needs
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• Closure of some business affected by the pandemic.
• Quarantine/lockdown which caused stoppage or slow-down of business operation
which eventually resulted to decrease in sales and net losses.
• Online shopping
• Work from home mode
• Online learning
• Consumer preferences to secure essential needs
• More health consciousness
• Online health consultation
Source: https://www.scb.co.th/en/personal-banking/stories/business-maker/business-
opportunity-after-covid.html
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ACTIVITY
Activity 1
2. Based on the four criteria: attractive, achievable, durable and value creating, select
the best idea. Explain why you think the business idea is attractive, achievable,
durable, and value creating.
ENGAGE ACTIVITY
With the use of your creative mind, draw and describe your version of a
disinfection device.
The key factor that influences your product ideation and development is your
design mindset.
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• Generates multiple and novel ideas and finds multiple approaches for achieving
goals
• Is willing to experiment, to try new ideas over and over again, and learn from
mistakes
CHARACTERISTICS OF A DESIGN-THINKING MIND
Dynamic Mind
Engages Empathetic
in
Prototypin
Optimistic Human-centered
g
Visual
Embracin
g of
Failure
Comfortabl
e with
Open to Ambiguity
Taking
Risks Reflective Collaborative
DYNAMIC MIND
• Dynamic mindset is the ability to shift between inventive thinking, where new ideas
are generated, and analytical thinking, where ideas are tested to identify an
appropriate solution.
EMPATHETIC
• Empathy is the ability to see a situation from multiple perspectives such as the point
of view of clients, end users, and colleagues. These various perspectives allow
design thinkers to imagine solutions that meet the needs of the users.
HUMAN CENTERED
• Design thinkers put the human experience at the center of problem solving where
the lives of people, their challenges, and their ideas are closely and deeply
examined by engaging with people in their everyday environments.
VISUAL
• Visualizing has two components:
First, visual thinking speaks to a form of thinking that brings about new ideas;
Second, is bringing to life what was conceptualized in the mind.
COMFORTABLE WITH AMBIGUITY
• Design thinkers must be comfortable with ambiguity (or not knowing) while at the
same time exploring information, generating ideas, and detecting patterns.
COLLABORATIVE
• Design thinkers engage with clients to understand what needs to be designed, with
end users to understand their perspectives, and with other stakeholders to
determine the context and existence of any constraints.
• In this way, design thinkers do not create solutions in isolation, but, rather, solutions
are co-created through engagement with others.
REFLECTIVE
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•Reflection is described as learning through action where the design thinker proposes
a solution, creates an artifact that can be examined by others, and reflects upon
the perspectives provided by others to improve upon the solution.
OPEN TO TAKING RISKS
• There is a tendency to cling onto the status quo, which prevents the birth of new
ideas, but design thinkers are comfortable with questioning the status quo to seek
new opportunities.
• With this questioning the status quo also comes the ability to examine constraints to
understand why they exist and how they can be worked with.
EMBRACING OF FAILURE
• Design thinkers are not fearful that the ideas presented will not be received well or
completely miss the mark.
• DTs do not view failure as something to be avoided but rather as a needed part of
the problem solving process.
• DTs reflect on failure and use this information to move an idea into the next iteration.
OPTIMISTIC
• Design thinkers are committed to the pursuit of finding better alternatives. Therefore,
design thinkers approach a problem with an attitude that all problems have at least
one solution that will improve the situation from where it is currently.
ENGAGES IN PROTOTYPING
• Design thinkers view solution finding as an iterative process that requires refining and
combining ideas to arrive at a final solution.
• Design thinkers engage in prototyping to transform conceptualized ideas into
tangibles for the purpose of gathering feedback on how a solution will work in the
real world.
Creativity
• The generation of ideas that result in the improved efficiency or effectiveness of a
system.
Entrepreneurial Creativity
• “At the very heart of capitalism… is the creative habit of enterprise. Enterprise is, in its
first moment, the inclination to notice, the habit of discerning, the tendency to
discover what other people don’t yet see. It is also the capacity to act on insight, so
as to bring into reality things not before seen. It is the ability to foresee both the
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needs of others and the combinations of productive factors most adapted to
satisfying those needs. This habit of intellect constitutes an important source of
wealth in modern society.
Novak, M. (1996) Business as a Calling. The Free Press, New York. 120
1. “Naah.”
2. “Can’t” (said with a shake of the head and an air of finality).
3. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
4. “Yeah, but if you did that . . .” (poses an extreme or unlikely disaster case).
5. “We already tried that—years ago.”
6. “I don’t see anything wrong with the way we’re doing it now.”
7. “We’ve never done anything like that before.”
8. “We’ve got deadlines to meet—we don’t have time to consider that.”
9. “It’s not in the budget.”
10. “Where do you get these weird ideas?”
Source: Adapted from The Creative Process, ed. Angelo M. Biondi (Hadley, MA: The
Creative Education Foundation, 1986).
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Arenas in Which People are
Creative
Idea
Creativity
Spontaneous Material
Creativity Creativity
Types of
Inner Creativity Creativity Organization
Creativity
Event
Creativity Relationship
Creativity
Innovation:
• Is the process by which entrepreneurs convert opportunities into marketable ideas
• Is a combination of the vision to create a good idea and the perseverance and
dedication to remain with the concept through implementation.
• Is a key function in the entrepreneurial process.
• Is the specific function of entrepreneurship.
• It is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of
adoption.
• It is a use of new knowledge to offer a new product or service that customers want.
• Thus, it is Invention + Commercialization
• “Innovation is the search for and the discovery, development, improvement, adoption
and commercialization of new processes, new products and new organization
structures and procedures.”
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WHAT IS AN INNOVATION?
It is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other
unit of adoption.
It is a use of new knowledge to offer a new product or service that customers want.
Thus, it is Invention + Commercialization
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“Innovation is the search for and the discovery, developed, improvement, adoption
and commercialization of new processes, new products and new organization
structures and procedures.”
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TYPES OF INNOVATION (KURATKO)
Innovation in Action
Principles of Innovation
q Be action oriented.
q Make the product, process, or service simple and understandable.
q Make the product, process, or service customer-based.
q Start small.
q Aim high.
q Try/test/revise.
q Learn from failures
q Follow a milestone schedule.
q Reward heroic activity.
q Work, work, work.
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At the end of Unit 2 topics you will able to:
1. Understand the concept of product;
2. Understand the stages in the product development process;
3. Use the strategies in product concept generation; and
4. Create a viable and sustainable new or innovative product applicable in your field
of discipline.
WHAT IS A PRODUCT?
¢ Customers buy satisfaction
Product is the need-satisfying offering of a firm
¢ Product quality and customer needs
A product with more features or even better features is not a high-quality product if
the features are not what the target market wants or needs
¢ Goods, services, ideas, people, organizations, places, events
PRODUCT CLASSIFICATIONS
ã Business products
• Raw materials
• Accessory
• Components
• Supplies
• Professional service
PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES
• Features: dimensions, source ingredients, service, structures, esthetic characteristics,
manufacturing process, performance, components, materials, price and many
more
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• Benefits: Uses, savings, nonmaterial well-being, economic gains
• Function: how the products works
Levels of a product
Product planners need to think about products and services on four levels.
1. Core customer value, which addresses the question, What is the buyer really buying?
2. Actual product.
3. Augmented product, which is created around the core benefit and actual product
by offering additional consumer services and benefits.
4. Potential- the future augmented product
1. Strategic planning
2. Opportunity Identification and Project Selection
3. Concept generation
4. Concept evaluation
5. Technical Development
6. Commercialization
• Combination: Combine two or more existing products to come up with new product
idea. example: swiss knife; puto pao; umbrella and flashlight;
• Other Uses- introduce another use for an existing product. baking soda as facial; coffee
as body scrub;
• Magnify/Minify/Modify
§ Magnify: Magnify what is already in the market through adding ingredients, add
more value, strengthening, enlarging and thickening. Noodles with more vitamins
§ Minify: Product ideas that are in the market by making it smaller, reducing,
shortening, making faster, omit, lighten, and split up. Radio-MP4, iPod
§ Modify: Changing the color, the shape, the size, the scent. off lotion-off lotion with
scent; balloons into different shapes;
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• Reverse- reverse the process or sequence; use opposite; backward ideas. Example:
reversible underwear, reversible bags.
• Adapt: Make adjustable. Example- tumbler for hot and cold; transition eyeglasses;
smartphones -water resistant; shoes-slippers;
Source: https://www.edrawsoft.com/template-general-business-model-canvas.php
ACTIVITY
Explain activity:
Read: disruptive innovation
Visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0cUBWTgpY
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Note that the module 5 pitch requirement is a continuation of your module 4
evaluate activity where you identified 3 problems that can be solved through business
ideas. Of these business ideas, select one that is worth working on.
The problems may be aligned to your program (ex. BSCE, BSCHE, BSEE, BSTM, BSHM,
etc.) or societal problems. Societal problems refer to problems in the society like waste
management, global warming, resource depletion, rising cases of HIV, rising cases of
diabetics, dengue, mobility of health care or frontliners, etc. The business solution you
came up with should be related to your field of discipline or program (ex. BSCE, BSCHE,
BSEE, BSTM, BSHM, etc.). So if you were a BSHM student and you plan to respond to the
rising cases of diabetics, particularly on diabetic diets, what business is related to BSHM
that answers the problem? Note further that you have to consider the situation this
pandemic and beyond—meaning the problem is currently experienced during this
pandemic and has a potential to be felt even after pandemic.
In your pitch, be guided by the business model canvas (from right to left). The
objective of a business pitch is to get potential investors to invest in your business idea.
Hence, you assume that we, your listeners, are your potential investors so be able to
entice us to invest in your business idea.
You have a total of 10 minutes to present the key features of your business using the
parts of the business model canvas.
So, the following will be the composition and flow of discussion (same flow with the
written output). Note that time is limited so prioritize what you will emphasize in your
pitch. Other important information will be detailed in the written output.
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4. Value proposition
The value proposition describes the reason why your customer buys your product.
What benefit the customer will get from the business? What is your competitive
advantage? What you offer that the competitor has difficulty to offer?
5. Channels
Objective here is to make the product available to the market. One of the changes
brought by the global mind (internet) even before pandemic is the direct channel.
More evident during this pandemic. Do you need intermediaries to bring your
product near to your market? What intermediaries do you need to bring your
product to your final consumer?
How can you attract your customers?
Are you going to use facebook? Lazada? Shopee? Amazon? Dental clinics? Drug
stores? Grocery store?
6. Customer relationship
How can you retain your market? Freebies? Customer service?
7. Key resources
6Ms (machines, manpower, money, materials, moment, methods).
What are key resources you need? If you intend to solve problem of diabetics in
terms of food through food packs (note that menu for diabetics is specialized—they
have to be selective of their food intake). What vegetables do you need? What
machine you need to produce the food packs?
8. Key activities
What are key activities needed by the business to satisfy the need of your market.
Problem solving is an activity but not a key activity for all, for a consultancy business
it is a key activity. Using the example on diabetic, what could be a key activity for
food packs for diabetics?
9. Key partners
Who will help you in bringing satisfaction to your market? Using the diabetic
example, maybe medical doctors, nutritionists, farmers, dietician, etc.
10. Cost structure
11. Revenue stream
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REFERENCES
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environment.html
COURSE SPECIFICATION
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Through their study of the lives of successful entrepreneurs as well
as in conceptualizing and creating innovative products, students
will develop their minds to become independent, growth-oriented,
goal- oriented and effectuating, risk-managing, resilient,
opportunity- recognizing, and designing.
9 Course Learning At the end of the course, the entrepreneurial Louisians are
Outcomes expected to:
1. Relate SLU’s core values of Christian spirit, competence,
creativity and social involvement as they actively participate in
team entrepreneurial activities;
2. Discuss the role of entrepreneurship in socio-economic
development;
3. Manifest improvement in their understanding and appreciation
of entrepreneurship;
4. Discuss the entrepreneurial mindset needed in order to engage
in the entrepreneurial process;
5. Discuss the entrepreneurial mindset manifested by
entrepreneurs as the latter’s entrepreneurial life stories are
reviewed;
6. Manifest development of their entrepreneurial mindset;
7. Apply critical thinking and problem-based learning in
identifying and evaluating new opportunities and new product
ideas that are responsive to current business and
environmental challenges, according to their field of discipline;
8. Design and pitch new and innovative product ideas using the
business model canvass.
10 Learners’ profile and Expected enrolees are from the School of Accountancy,
context Management, Computing and Information Studies, School of
Engineering and Architecture, and School of Natural Sciences
learners who are from the various provinces in the Philippines and
who are restricted to have a face-to-face interactions in school.
11. Assessment and The activities will be administered through:
Evaluation Details a. Google Classroom and other applications in the Google Suite.
b. Printed materials that will be sent through express mail services.
12. Monitoring Details For students who have no internet connection but with
smartphones, laptop, and computer at home, they will be
monitored via:
a. Short messages services (SMS) at least once a week;
b. Video recording using their smartphones
Students with internet connection and smartphones but without
laptop or computer at home will be monitored through:
a. Fb messenger
b. Short message services (SMS)
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Students with internet connection, laptop or computer will be
monitored through SLU portal, and Google Classroom Discussion
Forum and online activities.
13 Technological Support Delivery of the course needs the use of the SLU subscribed Google
Suite, SLU E-Learning Resources, and SLU Student Portal. Likewise,
printed reading materials will be sent through mail.
14 Course Budget The following cost will be added to the regular fees the students
pay:
a. Printed materials- Php 1,000.00
b. Express mail services- Php 1,000 (depending on the location
of the student)
COURSE GUIDE
REF SAMCIS-BSE-BA-Gentrep
I. Course Title: ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND
This course is designed to enable you, learners, from any discipline to understand the
concept of the entrepreneurial mind. You will come to appreciate the notion that
entrepreneurship is applicable and beneficial in all spheres of life and, thus, in any career
path. Through the course content, you will be provided the opportunity to assess and
develop their entrepreneurial mind.
Towards the ends of the term you are tasked to pitch your innovative idea using the
business model canvass.
As we face the new normal, we are challenged by not letting to have face to face
classroom set up but his challenge should be looked at as a way to further enhance our
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learning. This Gentrep module is designed for us as a class to able to work and learn
together using technology and still have the benefits of a classroom atmosphere.
The following guides and house rules will help you further to be on track and successfully
achieve the aims for this course:
1. Schedule and manage your time to read and understand every part of the module.
Read it over and over until you understand the point. Please note that due to the
problems on erratic internet connections and to be able to cooperate with the
government in observing the ECQ protocols, this online course will be delivered
asynchronously.
2. Study how you can manage to do the activities of this course in consideration of
your other modules from other courses. Be very conscious with the study schedule.
Post it on a conspicuous place so that you can always see. Do not ask your course
facilitator about questions that are already answered in the guide.
3. Keep abreast of important announcements, discussions, and other class activities.
Regularly check the STREAM page for possible announcements.
4. In doing your tasks, read and understand the instructions provided. Target the
highest standards, not the low standards in doing your assigned tasks. I know you
can.
5. You are free to browse and read the different materials even prior to doing the tasks
in each unit of the module. However, you need to ensure that you will not miss any
part of the module and you will not miss to accomplish every activity in every unit as
scheduled.
6. All course discussions will be conducted using Google Meet. If you will be using
mobile app of Google Meet, stay logged in so you can engage in the discussion
anytime and anywhere. If you are using the desktop app, regularly log in to stay in
the discussion.
7. All the discussions are academic discussions, which mean that the relevant
academic conventions apply.
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f. Quote your sources in the online discussion by mentioning the last name of the
author and the year. No need to use a particular style.
g. Protect your privacy. Ponder before you post. If you wish to share something
private, do it by email or private chat.
8. Do not plagiarize and do not patch write. Patchwriting is still a form or plagiarism. It
refers to the act of making small changes and substitutions to copied source
material (Merriam-Webster, 2020).
9. Follow the schedule of course activities. Always remind yourself of deadlines. Read
in advance. Try to anticipate possible conflicts between your personal schedule and
the course schedule, and make the appropriate adjustments. Try your best to inform
through any means your course facilitator for any unavoidable delays or "absences"
or "silences" of more than a week's duration or other concerns.
10. Note that our Google Classroom is a virtual learning environment, not a social
networking site. Use your legal name and recent and appropriate ID photo on your
profile page for proper identification.
11. Lastly, you are the learner; hence, you do the module on your own. Your family
members and friends at home will support you but the activities must be done by
you. As Louisan, we always need to demonstrate our core values of competence,
creativity, social involvement and Christian spirit.
IV. Evaluation
A. Formative Assessment
1. You are required to answer pre-assessment, self-assessment activities, and reflection
questions .
2. The reflection questions are designed to help you to critically analyze the course
readings for better understanding.
3. The completeness of your answers to the self- assessment activities, and reflection
questions will still be checked and will still be part of your grade completion. Hence,
self-assessment activities, and reflection questions must be left unanswered.
4. In doing your formative assessment activities. You can always ask the help of your
family.
5. The self-assessment activities, and reflection questions are required so you can take
it anytime within the scheduled days assigned for each unit.
B. Summative Assessment
Examinations: periodical evaluation (midterm and final)
Activities embedded in your module.
Final project: Product idea pitch with business model canvas
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V. Study Schedule: (see attached in the first pages of this module)
Grading System
Midterm Grade
CS (activities -module 1-3) =70%
Examination =30%
Total 100%
Prepared by:
LORRAINE B. NGAOSI
Course Facilitator
Rubrics:
Infographic and Comic strip rubric
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4 3 2 1 SCORE
Focus Clearly Defines the Defines the Fails to clearly
defines the purpose of purpose but define the
purpose of the the activity does not purpose of the
activity. with little clearly state activity.
Follows diversion from the purpose. Deviates from
thoughtful the topic It diverts from the topic
and relevant the topic
points of view
Connection Presents clear Presents an Presents Fails to make a
to readings connection apparent some connection of
between connection connection the lessons and
what is between the between readings
learned from lesson and lesson and
the lesson and other readings the readings.
further
readings
Connection Presents a Presents Presents No connection
to clear apparent some general between
experiences connection connection issues from experiences
from outside between experiences. and topic
experiences experiences
and topic and topic
Organization Reflection Reflection is Flow of Flow of
paper is presented in discussion is discussion is
exceptionally
5 an organized
3 somewhat 2 inconsistent.
1 score
Content well
• Includes all manner.
• All required organized.
• Some NoNo requiredof
transition
-required organized,
required Transition of
information Transition of ideas
information elements are
elements wellelements
written. ideas
areis ideasareis included
-quality of Transition of
including consistent
included slightly
included
data ideas are
additional observed
effective.
information
Mechanics
Infographic Demonstrates
• Organized Writing
• Good is lay- Contains
• Lay-out Largely
• Lay-out is
design an layout readable
out with several
distracts unreadable
disorganized
-layout exceptional
• Visuals some
• Visualization grammatical
content • Visual
-visuals amount
create of a consideration
fit the errors
• Design convey a
-design editing.
visual flow. to spelling,
content and visuals meaning
complements • Visuals to
Enjoyable grammar and are at contrary to
content read.
show sentence odds with content
connection construction. the
TOTAL to content content
Clarity • Main idea • Some • Confusing • Main idea is
-clear is obvious visuals are • Poor initial missing
impressions and easy not needed impression
to
understand
TOTAL
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Focus Clearly defines Defines the Defines the Fails to
the purpose of purpose of the purpose but does clearly
the activity. activity with not clearly state define the
Follows little diversion the purpose. purpose of
thoughtful and from the topic It diverts from the the activity.
relevant points topic Deviates
of view from the
topic
Depth of Presents Presents some Demonstrates Fails to
reflection thorough ideas relevant limited personal convey
relating to the experiences learnings from personal
issue and to convey the issue or topic. learnings
learnings from ideas relating from the
questions to the issue, topic.
asked. topic or
Make use of question.
personal
experiences.
Organization Reflection Reflection is Flow of discussion Flow of
paper is presented in is somewhat discussion is
exceptionally an organized organized. inconsistent.
well organized, manner. Transition of ideas No
well written. Transition of is slightly transition of
Transition of ideas is observed ideas
ideas are consistent
effective.
Mechanics Demonstrates Writing is Contains several Largely
an exceptional readable with grammatical unreadable
amount of some errors
editing. consideration
Enjoyable to to spelling,
read. grammar and
sentence
construction.
TOTAL
Self-reflection rubric
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BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS PITCH RUBRIC
Criteria Excellent Proficient Sufficient Deficient
20 10 5 3
Value proposition The idea fully The idea The idea Idea is not
-compelling benefit addresses an addresses an addresses practical in the
-matches market’s identified problem identified some parts of market; key
problems that has a larger problem. the identified features of the
-key features of the social implication. Specific key problem product does
product Multiple key features of not match the
features of the the product fit market’s
product fit the the problem problem.
problem
Customer Segments 20 10 5 3
-customer profile The idea is perfect Idea is Idea Unable to
-Cluster with common for the target designed for designed is figure out who
needs market a well- without a well- is the target
-decision maker defined defined market/user for
target user target the idea
market/ user
Marketing 10 8 5 3
-Channels Extensive research Specific Limited Unclear
-Customer relations on channels of channels of channel of channel of
distribution. Display distribution. distribution. distribution and
specific and Presents how Limited plans no specific and
alternative to create to attract, alternative
channels. customer keep and channels.
Shows in depth relationship grow No clear plan
plan to attract, customer on attracting,
keep and grow keeping and
market. growing
customers
Key partners 10 8 5 3
-key partners Presented an General list of With missing Incomplete list
-key suppliers intensive list of key key partners. list of key of key partners
-invaluable allies partners. Provide Provide partners and and missing
-what they give to key expected from you expected limited expected
partners to key partners return from expected return
you. return from
you.
Key Activities 10 8 5 3
-important processes Present detailed list Presents There are Unclear
of key activities. general list of missing tasks activities.
activities /activities
Key resources 10 8 5 3
-vital materials, Materials/resources General Materials are Identified
ingredients are indigenous, resources are available but resources are
thoroughly available and supply is not unavailable
researched, and supplies are reliable and unfit for the
are fitted to the reliable idea.
idea.
Financial 10 8 5 3
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-Revenue stream Clear Has an Has a general Limited
-Cost stream understanding of understanding understanding understanding
the profit stream. of the profit of the profit on the revenue
Set specific pricing stream. Pricing stream. stream.
strategies. strategies are General There are
Presents a detailed set. Set a pricing missing list of
critical list of costs. general list of strategies costs.
costs.
10 8 5 3
Motivation/presentation Presenters exhibit Presenter Presenter was Presenter was
mastery of their manifests able to hardly able to
business concept enthusiasm establish keep the
through their tone and elicits rapport with attention of the
of voice, posture, interest from the audience audience
rapport, and the audience
audience
engagement
TOTAL
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