Organization: Wageningen University
Registration deadline: 26 Sep 2016
Starting date: 07 Nov 2016
Ending date: 18 Nov 2016
Over 140 million entrepreneurs expect to add at least five new jobs over the next five years. Entrepreneurial activity is flourishing across the globe, and can act as an economic engine. Entrepreneurship is the best hope for reviving a weakened world economy.
This fourteen-day course will give insight into the mindset of entrepreneurs, the challenges they face, and possible strategies to cope with their challenges.
Designing and leading the entrepreneurial organisation
Avoiding the pitfalls
It is estimated that 70% to 80% of new businesses end their operations within their first year. Of those that survive, only half will remain in business after five years. However many of the hurdles and pitfalls a new entrepreneur faces can be avoided.
In this dynamic and interactive training programme, you will learn how to identify and address those challenges. The training focuses on what entrepreneurs care most about, and what ultimately affect their bottom line: how to raise money, make money, save money and help others to do so.
Learn from success and mistakes of others
Successful entrepreneurs are invited to the classroom to share their experiences, and give you tips on what you need to avoid mistakes they made, and what secrets underlie their accomplishments. You will meet actors from various agribusiness clusters, including representatives of financial institutes, business service providers and change facilitators. You will learn from the hands-on experience of those actors, and also enlarge your network that will help you build your own business.
Learn to ask the right questions
The training is built on the entrepreneurial life cycle, and based on the background of the participants. Experienced entrepreneurs are faced with different questions than the ones who are in the phase of starting a business. Learning to ask the right questions is key in every phase, both for business owners and supporting organisations.
Target audience
This course is aimed at business owners and representatives from organisations that support entrepreneurship and/or seek to enable an environment in which businesses can flourish. Proficiency in English is required.
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More info on fellowships: http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/Expertise-Services/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/short-courses/scholarships.htm