SIM 314:   Entrepreneurship   for   Securities   and   Investments   Management

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. demonstrate adequate knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship principles and processes;
2. develop mission and vision for businesses;
3. conduct feasibility studies for business opportunities identification, types of business and

nature of Nigeria’s business environment;

• ability and individual potentials such as confidence, sense innovation and creativity, display initiative abilities, have disposition for taking business risks; and
• demonstrate willingness to collaborate, save, invest and nurture businesses.

Course Contents

Introduce general concept of Entrepreneurship. Definition of strategy, mission and vision. Identification of business and investments opportunities. Venture creation and business development, process of feasibility analysis and plans for investments opportunities. Understanding the forms and characteristics of Micro, Small, Medium and Large-scale businesses in Nigeria. Explain the role of relevant supporting agencies and government programmes for entrepreneurs in Nigeria.

Describe the methods of managing material, technology, financial and human resources of business. Explain the basic marketing approaches in micro and small-scale businesses. Explain effective environmental scanning, and the need to plan for succession and to design and create innovative and effective entrepreneurial compensation plans. Explain the significance and processes of registration and

certificate acquisition for new business venture. Guide students to learn how to create, protect, and preserve intellectual capital through intellectual property right/copyright.