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Tribhuvan University: New Curriculum (MBS
Second Year)
Entrepreneurship Development
Course No. MGT 506
Nature of the Course : Core
Duration of the Course: 50 Lecture hours
Duration of the Class : 60 minutes

Full Marks: 50
Pass Marks: 20

Cource Objectives
The purpose of the course is to prepare students for the possibility of starting
their own entrepreneurial ventures. The course emphasizes on improving the
skills of the students to identify venture opportunities and prepare a business
plan.
Cource Description
The course introduces students to the process of entrepreneurship and the
role of the entrepreneur in initiating and developing new ventures. As a part
of the course, students will prepare a comprehensive business plans for
starting or acquiring a business.
Contents
1. Overview of Entrepreneurship
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Concept, features, functions and types of entrepreneur. Role of
entrepreneurship in economic development. Women entrepreneurship:
concept and problems. Emerging trends in entrepreneurship: The
internet
and
e-commerce
entrepreneurship.
Factors
affecting
entrepreneurship growth: Economic factors and non-economic factors.
2. Approaches to Entrepreneurship
LH 3
Overview of Entrepreneurial thoughts: Environmental, financial/capital,
displacement, entrepreneurial trait, venture opportunity.
Process Approaches: an integrative approach, entrepreneurial
assessment approach, multidimensional approach.
3. Developing Creativity and Understanding Innovation
LH 4
Concept of Creativity, Creative Process: Knowledge accumulation, the
incubation, the ideas experience, evaluation and implementation.
Developing Creativity: Recognizing relationship, developing functional
perspective using brains, eliminating muddling mind-sets.
Innovation: Concept, Types of innovation: Invention, Extensions,
Duplication, Synthesis.
Source of Innovation: Unexpected occurrences, incongruities, process
needs, industry and market changes, demographic changes, perceptual
changes, knowledge based concept.
4. Entrepreneurial Risk and Stress
LH 4
Concept of risk, Types of risk: Financial, career, family and social,
psychic.
Concept of stress. Sources of stress: loneliness, immersion in business,
people problems, needs to achieve.
Dealing with stress: Networking, getting away from it all, communicating
with employees, finding satisfaction outside the company, delegating.
5. Legal Environment for the Entrepreneurship
LH 4
Legal procedures for establishment of a new venture. Registration of
intellectual property right (patent, trademarks, copyright, trade
secretes), licensing, product safety and liability. Insurance and contracts.

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New Venture Identification and Selection

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Business opportunity identification: Sources and methods of generating
new ideas. Selection of best idea.
Feasibility studies: Site selection, factors affecting site selection.
Business description: background, purpose and objectives. Marketing
component: Overall market, specific market, competitive factors. Macro
environmental influence (structural change and cyclical change).
Marketing strategy and sales forecasts. Financial component: Start-up
costs, financial requirement. Sources of funds. Projected profit and loss
statement. Projected cash flow statement and analysis of projected
balance sheet. Development and production: Production process and
technology, resource requirement and quality assurance. Organization
and management: Key personnel resources, human resource
management strategy. Forms of ownership: Forms of business, equity
position and deal structure. Critical risk and contingencies.
Preparation of Business Plan
LH 10
Concept and benefits of the business plan. Elements of business plan.
Preparation of the business plan. Scheme and strategy of venture
launching. Internal Profile Analysis: Concept, identification, selection of
variables and their analysis. Practical exercise.
Institutional Support to Entrepreneurship Development
LH 4
Need for institutional support. Institutional support to entrepreneurs in
Nepal: The government agencies, Specialized agencies, Consultancy
services, Institutional finance, Marketing services, Industrial Estates.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship Development Projects (MEDEP, ELAM).

Basic Books

Dollinger. Marc J. (2003) Entrepreneurship: Strategies and

Resources. New Delhi: Pearson Education.

Hisrich, Robert D. and Peters, Michael P. and Shepherd, D.A. (2007)

Entrepreneurship. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.

Khanka, S. S. (1999) Entrepreneurship Development. New Delhi: S.

Chand & Co.

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Pokhara University: Curriculum (MBA)

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MGT 544: Entrepreneurship Development

Cource Objectives
This course is designed to identify and analyze the factors that contribute to
the creation of successful new ventures and to highlight the process of
creating and managing a new business. This course covers the
entrepreneurial process from idea generation to implementation. It looks at
how ideas are created, assessed, and implemented. The contents of the
course will include:
1. Fundamental theories of entrepreneurship
2. Characteristics of entrepreneurship
3. Environmental conditions: Scanning and Evaluation
4. Strategic Process
5. Business plans for entrepreneurial ventures
6. Family business succession strategy
7. Entrepreneurial leadership and innovation
8. Intrapreneurship: capturing inattentive by cooperate managers in trying
new ideas and developing internal markets

Reading, cases and project work will be used as teaching pedagogy.

Purbanchal University: Curriculum (MBA)

Entrepreneurship Development
Course No. MGT 529
Credit : 3
Area of Study: Core

MBA 3rd Semester

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Cource Objectives
The basic objectives of this course are as under:
a. To impart the knowledge of Entrepreneurial Development in the world.
b. To share the formalities for the establishment of a small new business
venture in Nepal
c. To motivate the students to lead their career as a successful
entrepreneur.
d. To motivate the students to lead their career as a business consultant.
Course Contents
Unit I: An Overview of Entrepreneurship
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The concept, role and importance of an entrepreneur in economic
growth, Entrepreneur-Interpreter and manger distinguished, Functions of
an entrepreneur, characteristics of a successful entrepreneur, small
business venture and entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship
development in Nepal. Case study on women entrepreneurship.
Unit II: Entrepreneurship Motivation Theories
LH 7
The concept, motivating factors, motivation theories: Maslow's needs
hierarchy theory, McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory.
Unit III: Growth of Entrepreneurship
LH 10
The Growth concept, Economic Factors for Growth. Non-economic factors
for growth. Rural entrepreneurship in Nepal. INGOs and NGOs in
entrepreneurship development in Nepal. Entrepreneurship Competency
Development (ECD) in Nepal. Case study in rural entrepreneurship and
ECD.

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Unit IV: Project Management for Entrepreneurship

LH 10
The project concept. Project identification and selection. Project
formation. Project appraisal. Case study on project formulation.
Unit V: Institutional Support to Entrepreneurship in Nepal
LH 10
The support concept. Financial support agencies: Grammen Vikas Bank,
Finance Companies, Commercial Banks, INGOs and NGOs, Logistic
Support: Government Agencies, Socialized Agencies, Consultancy
Agencies. Case study.
Basic Readings

Khanka, S. S. Entrepreneurship Development. New Delhi: S. Chand &

Co.

Holt, D.H. Entrepreneurship - New Venture Creation. Prentice Hall

of India.

Colombo Plan Staff College Entrepreneurship Development. Manila

Philippines.

Drucker, Peter, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Heinemann,

London.

Pokhara University: Curriculum (BBA)

Entrepreneurship
BBA, 3rd year, Sixth Semester

Cource Objectives
This course aims to provide fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship and
deals with issues related to the establishment, development, and
management of a small enterprise. It provides students with real world
examples and practical hands on exercises, and provides practical guidelines
for developing a business plan to lunch and run a successful business.
Course Contents
1. Overview of Entrepreneurship
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Nature
of
development
of
entrepreneurship,
definition
of
entrepreneurship and entrepreneur, Role of entrepreneurship in
economic development: entrepreneurship, family business and
succession strategies, sources of business idea, the entrepreneurial
decision process, types of start-ups, the fundamental issues in
entrepreneurship.
2. The Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Mind
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The Entrepreneurial process: identify and evaluate the opportunity,
develop a business plan, determine the resources required, manage the
enterprise, managerial versus entrepreneurial decision making: strategic
orientation, commitment to opportunity, commitment of resources,
control of resources, management structure, entrepreneurial venturing
inside a corporation, causes for interest in intrapreneurship, climate for
entrepreneurship, intrapreneurial leadership characteristics.
3. The Environment for Entrepreneurship
LH 7
The context of entrepreneurship, government policies, infrastructures,
and assistance for entrepreneurship, international opportunities for
entrepreneurs: small business venturing exporting, networking,
franchising and strategic alliances, e-entrepreneurship, e-commerce
challenges and strategic websites assistance for entrepreneurs, ethics
and social responsibility.
4. Creativity and Business Idea
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Nature of creative process, role of creativity, sources of new ideas

consumers, existing companies, distribution channels, R&D techniques
of idea generation, Business incubation: concept, importance, methods.
5. Business Development Plan for a New Venture
LH 9
Defining the business plan, scope and value of the business plan,
structure and components of business plan, measuring plan progress,
updating a plan, reasons for the failure of some businesses.
6. Managing Early Growth and Challenges
LH 10
Managing the early growth of the new venture: to grow or not to grow,
dimensions and strategies for expansion and growth, challenges and
opportunities of global expansion, economic implications of growth,
hitting the growth wall, financial strategies to support growth,
organizational changes during growth, entrepreneurial skills and
strategies: record keeping and financial controls, inventory control,
human resources, marketing skills, strategic planning skills.
Text Books

Hisrich, Robert D. and Michael P. Peter Entrepreneurship.

Kurato, Donald F. and Harold P. Welch: Strategic Entrepreneurial Growth,

Harcourt Publishers: New York

Agrawal, G. R. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management in

Nepal, M.K. Publishers, Kathmandu, 2010

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