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Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Liz Moody and Ronald Macintyre. It was first published in February 2019 and updated in November 2021.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Introduction and guidance

Course image: © The Open University

Session 1

Figure 1: Adapted from: Drucker 2007; redrawn version (c) The Open University

Figure 2: Adapted from Burns, P. (2016) Entrepreneurship and Small Business Start-up, Growth and Maturity (4th ed.) London: Palgrave-MacMillan, pp 86-117

Figure 3: CARTA image / Alamy Stock Photo

Figure 5: patpitchaya; iStockphoto.com

Session 2

Figure 1: mrPliskin; iStockphoto.com

Figure 2: adapted from: BIS, Business population estimates 2017, p1

Figure 3: VSanandhakrishna/iStockphoto.com

Session 3

Blank version of business model canvas link: Business Model Foundry AG; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 3.0/ deed.en

Figure 3: Business Incubators and Accelerators: The National Picture; BEIS Research Paper No. 7; Bone J; Allen O; Haley C; http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Session 4

Figure 1: Tono Balaguer; Shutterstock.com

Figure 4: Leesa Sleep Limited

Session 5

Figure 1: Daniela Staerk; Shutterstock

Session 6

Figure 1: solarseven; Shutterstock

Figure 5: Jim West / Alamy Stock Photo

Session 7

Figure 1: anilakkus; iStockphoto.com

Figure 2: taken from: https://www.accountingformanagement.org/ balance-sheet/

Figure 4: Jim Riley

Audio/Video

Session 1

Video 5: Brainstorming: Permission has been granted by Group Harmonics, Inc. for teaching and training purposes only.

Session 8

Audio 1: The Bottom Line: a co-production between the BBC and the Open University

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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