Submission Front Sheet

Programme BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business (RQF)

Unit Title and Number: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (Unit 09)

Assignment title Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Assignment Brief

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Introduction
Aim:
This unit provides students with an understanding of the definition and scope of
entrepreneurship and an understanding of the enablers and barriers to business start-up.

Students will learn about the influence of national culture and economy on entrepreneurship
and will explore the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs and the impact of personal
situational factors, including education and background.

Students will also learn about the role and importance of small firms to the economy, and
about social enterprise and the social economy. Students will also be expected to understand
the balance of risk and reward in starting a new venture and they will investigate and reflect
on their own entrepreneurial and enterprising characteristics. Examples of entrepreneurs and
start-up organisations will be discussed and students will be expected to draw on local,
personal and general knowledge together with their learning to be able to identify the
characteristics of entrepreneurial ventures.

Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit a learner will:

1 Explore and illustrate the range of venture types that might be considered entrepreneurial.

2 Assess the impact of small businesses on the economy.

3 Determine and assess the key aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset.

4 Examine the different environments that foster or hinder entrepreneurship.

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Assignment Brief (Part A&B) Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Learning Outcomes L01 -LO4

Submission Format
The submission is in the form of a report. You are required to make effective use of
headings, bullet points and subsections as appropriate. You are required to provide a
reference list using the Harvard referencing system and provide citations throughout the
report using the same referencing system. The recommended word limit is between 2000–
2500 words for each part, although you will not be penalised for exceeding the total word
limit.

Assignment Brief and Guidance For Part A

Scenario and activity:
You are currently employed as a Junior Business Executive for the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, a UK Government Department that helps people
to work and for businesses to invest, innovate and grow. In preparation for an upcoming
seminar organised by the Department for helping businesses in times of Brexit
uncertainties, you have been tasked by your manager to investigate different types of
entrepreneurial ventures and their impact upon the economy.

Your line manager has asked you to produce a report that will be distributed to attendees at
the end of the seminar. In writing this report, ensure that you provide your own list of UK
Small and Medium Entreprises as examples of organisations that attended the seminar at
the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

The report should cover the following:

- A critical examination of various types of entrepreneurial ventures together with

their scope, development, growth and their relationship with the typology of
entrepreneurship. In this section, the report should also discuss similarities and
differences between entrepreneurial ventures. Ensure you have sufficiently explored
entrepreneurial ventures witin both public and corporate sector

- Using suitable data and statistics, critically evaluate the impact of micro, start-up,

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 small, medium and large businesses on the local, regional and national level of
economy. Expand your evaluation further to include an international context for the
above. Then, comment on the growth of the social economy and the importance of
small businesses and startups for the same.

Assignment Brief and Guidance For Part B

Scenario and activity:
Following the impressive report that you submitted to your line manager from Assignment
A, you have been promoted to the role of a Senior Business & Enterpreneurship Executive
in the Department. Given your impressive performance at the seminar, one of the
organisations that attended the seminar has asked your line manager for consultancy
services. In relation to this, your line manager has asked you to prepare a report to cover the
following:
- Analyse the characteristic traits, skills and motivational drivers of
successful entrepreneurs, that reflect their personality, supported by specific
examples
- Critically analyse how background and experience influences
entrepreneurs, both positively and negatively, by comparing and contrasting
examples.
Note: In writing this section of the report , consider choosing ONE of the organisations that
you listed in Part A as the chosen client, provide brief background information of the
organisation
Note
 (Students are required to discuss their chosen organization with their tutor
for approval prior to embarking upon compliation of the report)

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Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Explore and illustrate the range of venture types

that might be considered entrepreneurial

P1 Examine different M1 Investigate a diverse

D1 Critically examine the
types of entrepreneurial range of entrepreneurial
scope, development and
ventures and explain ventures to demonstrate
growth of
how they relate to the an understanding of
entrepreneurial
typology of entrepreneurship in
ventures.
entrepreneurship. both the public and
corporate sector.
P2 Explore the
similarities and
differences between
entrepreneurial
ventures

LO2 Assess the impact of small businesses on the

economy
D2 Critically evaluate
P3 Interpret and assess M2 Evaluate the
how small businesses
relevant data and differences small,
have an impact on
statistics to illustrate medium and large
different levels of the
how micro and small businesses make to the
economy (local, regional,
businesses impact on economy, applying
national) and in an
the economy. relevant data and
international context.
statistics
P4 Explain the
importance of small
businesses and business
start-ups to the growth
of the social economy

LO3 Determine and assess the key aspects of an

entrepreneurial mindset

P5 Determine the M3 Explore different D3 Analyse the

characteristic traits and lines of argument characteristic traits, skills
skills of successful relating to and motivational drivers
entrepreneurs that entrepreneurial of successful
differentiate them from characteristics. entrepreneurs,
other business supported by specific
managers. examples.
P6 Assess how aspects of
the entrepreneurial
personality reflect
entrepreneurial

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motivation and mindset.

LO4 Examine the different environments that foster or

hinder entrepreneurships

P7 Examine, using M4 Analyse the link D4 Critically analyse how

relevant examples, how between background and
background and entrepreneurial experience influences
experience can hinder or characteristics and the entrepreneurs, both
foster entrepreneurship. influence of personal positively and negatively,
background and by comparing and
experience to specific contrasting examples.
successful entrepreneurs

Support Material

Recommended Resources

BURNS, P (2011) Entrepreneurship and Small Business. 3rd Ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave
MacMillan.
DOWN, S. (2010) Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business. London: Sage.
CARTER, S. and
JONES-EVANS, D. (2012) Enterprise and Small Business: Principles, Practice and Policy.
London: Pearson.
GRIFFITHS, A. and WALL, S. (2011) Economics for Business and Management. 3rd Ed.
Harlow: Pearson.
Journals

Journal of Small Business Management. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-627X)

Websites

The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) website: www.isbe.org.uk

Specification of Assessment

 Present your work in one business report style which should include table of contents,
reference list, foot or end notes and appendices if any
 Include the reference code of this assignment on your assignment submission
front page.

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  Each page must be numbered at the bottom right hand side.
 Ensure the following information is in the footer on every page:
o Your name
o The production date of your submission
o The code number of your assignment brief
o The page number
 Spell-check the document and make sure there are no grammatical errors.
 Complete all the tasks.
 Produce clear specific reasoning and arguments in support of your answers.
 Submit your work in a single work processed document of not more than 5000 words
for all Learning Outcomes. This word limit is only for guidelines, and is not applied
to grading.
 You must include a bibliography at the end to show where your information was
sourced.
 Your sources must be identified using the Harvard referencing system. The words
used in your bibliography will not be included in your word count.

Plagiarism and Collusion

Any act of plagiarism and collusion will be seriously dealt with according to the regulations.
In this context the definition and scope of plagiarism are presented below:

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‘Plagiarism occurs when a student misrepresents, as his/her own work, the work, written or
otherwise, of any other person (including another student) or of any institution. Examples of
forms of plagiarism include1:
 the verbatim (word for word) copying of another’s work without appropriate and
correctly presented acknowledgement;
 the close paraphrasing of another’s work by simply changing a few words or altering the
order of presentation, without appropriate and correctly presented acknowledgement;
 unacknowledged quotation of phrases from another’s work;
 The deliberate and detailed presentation of another’s concept as one’s own.’
All types of work submitted by students are covered by this definition, including, written
work, diagrams, designs, engineering drawings and pictures.

‘Collusion occurs when, unless with official approval (e.g. in the case of group projects), two
or more students consciously collaborate in the preparation and production of work which is
ultimately submitted by each in an identical, or substantially similar, form and/or is
represented by each to be the product of his or her individual efforts. Collusion also occurs
where there is unauthorised co-operation between a student and another person in the
preparation and production of work which is presented as the student’s own.’ (’Carroll, J and
Appleton, J.( 2001) Plagiarism – A Good Practice Guide. Oxford Brookes University/JISC,
Oxford)

All work for assessment must be submitted with a Turnitin Report on plagiarism. The
Maximum Turnitin score admissible is 15% (after deduction of 1% & 2% records).

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