This links entrepreneurial theory with impact measurement practices and helps you to embed these ideas into your own context. What is impact and how might it be measured? Entrepreneurship can create various impacts on an economy and generate change within society.
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The measurement and acknowledgement of such impacts can lead to better support programs, improved evaluation frameworks and increased innovative behaviour.
This course highlights the different approaches to measuring impact in varying contexts and organisations. Some of these factors include the acceptance of risk, level of research and innovation, availability of technology, and sophistication of ecosystems.
Therefore, it is crucial that tools and frameworks for measuring impact are contextualised.
What topics will you cover?
- The importance of aligning mission, strategy and impact
- What is impact on personal, social, and institutional levels?
- Understanding different frameworks for measuring impact
- How can the individual measure impact?
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Evaluate different theories and concepts of entrepreneurial creation
- Identify different approaches to measuring impact
- Apply knowledge of measuring impact into a suggested framework
