AEE SCHOOL PATHWAY
Start Date
Academic Terms Times
September
January
START-UP SCHOOL (SUS)
We know from experience how complex the start-up process is for academics. Our start-up school offers a practical approach to developing an idea, one delivered by specialist academics who have gone through the process and can guide them as the idea becomes commercially viable.
ECA Duration
Full-Time/Intensive
Language
English
Effort
120 Hours
WHY ECA?
The Accreditations
The Start-Up School (SUS) is one of only a few programs designed for academics, and run by academics in industry. We provide a practical approach to starting a commercially viable business. Working with HE institutions and TTO’s we provide academic teams practical, impactful training.
The Core Value
Design thinking skills, marketing insights, strategy techniques, operations tools, financial management templates, leadership, critical thinking, strategic management and problem-solving. – https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/smefinance
What Makes This Different
At AEE, we are focused on the tangible benefits that our comprehensive programs provide. Academic teams will be able to leverage the skills and strategies from SUS to develop a sustainable profitable business, academic teams walk away with:
- The ability to develop an MVP
- The skills to operationalise a start-up with ease.
- The skills needed to overcome business challenges and manage teams
- Strategies for driving change and becoming future ready
The Start-Up School Duration
Over the course of the taught SUS pathway, academic teams will explore a rich combination of specialist fields and areas of study including design thinking, marketing, strategy, operations, financial management and sales. More than that, SUS provides a practical toolkit, with the understanding of how to use it, where and how to start, and a tailored, step-by-step business strategy with someone on hand each step of the way. The program is flexible in nature and designed in such a way to work around the academic workload.
Key Outcomes
- Understanding of entrepreneurial fundamentals
- Analyse the business environment
- Acquire and utilise key entrepreneurial skills and tools
- Tangible experience of start-up process
- The development of skills through both formative virtual classroom-based work and summative assessment
- The opportunity to pitch to a panel of experts from Angels to Incubators
What You’ll Get
- 120 Hours Credentialled Trac
- 50 Hrs Live Training
- Mentor Sessions
- Self-Study Hours
Testimonials
Our Colleagues
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Programme Director
The SUS was designed to solve a key trust issue in the small business sector. In an industry saturated with misinformation and unqualified start-up ‘experts’ in an un-regulated market, the SUS was developed to provide a safe trusted step-by-step approach to the starting a business (online or offline). As an academic in entrepreneurship, Dr McFarlane has spent over 15 years developing higher education programs in enterprise for students all over the world. During that time, she has witnessed the need, for a more practical approach to enterprise education, that still benefits from the research of leading academics.
Dr Julie McFarlane
Director of Learning,
Academy of Enterprise Education
Course Enquiry
Course Enquiry
To enquire about SUS please fill out the form and one of
our course advisors will be in contact.
The Accreditations
Getting Certified
Academics undertaking the SUS Pathway will complete the 60 hours program. Different evaluation methods are used within the program and participants will be assessed in the development of skills through both formative virtual classroom-based work and summative assessment in the form of a final pitch.
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