Agri-Entrepreneurship, project planning and management:
Course Info & Description
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Why it was decided to convert this course into
a MOOC rather than other ones?
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Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
a. Knowledge and Understanding
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Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University
Agri-Entrepreneurship, project planning and
management
All BSc degrees of in the field of Agriculture and
Business
Undergraduate
None
The decision was taken to create it for the
project, to provide an offer for interested
students to enhance their knowledge in the
field while being independent from special or
time-wise restrictions and also to give a chance
to interested non-students to learn about this
subject.
3 Credit Points / 6 ECTS
12 units
1- Understand the meaning of
Entrepreneurship, its importance to the
Entrepreneur and to the economy
2- Know the importance of an entrepreneurial
idea, the means and sources of generate
this idea
3- Identify the characteristics, aptitudes, and
qualifications of effective Entrepreneurs
4- Identify different areas and fields that
Entrepreneur can choose among them to
start his project
5- Prepare a feasibility study for the project
6- Formulate a strategic/business plan for the
project
7- Manage the project professionally
8- Know the organizations that support and
incubate the entrepreneurial projects
1- Know the basics of Entrepreneurship
2- Understand the characteristics, and
aptitudes of Entrepreneurs
3- Know the factors of failure and success of
entrepreneurial projects
4- Implement steps for generating
entrepreneurial ideas
5- Determine the steps of feasibility study
 6- Know the steps and components of
business plan
7- Specify managerial functions needed to the
project
8- Know the organizations that support and
incubate the entrepreneurial projects
b. Intellectual Skills 1- Differentiate between traditional small
business and an entrepreneurial project
2- Know the difference between small
business owner’ skills and aptitudes of an
entrepreneur
3- Know the difference between skills needed
at the beginning of the project and that
one’s needed when the Project transfers to
a big company
c. Professional Skills 1- Compare between feasibility study and
business / strategic plan
2- Compare between traditional small
business owner’s skills and aptitudes of an
entrepreneur
3- Differentiate between an entrepreneurial
and managerial skills needed at different
stages of project’ life cycle
4- Work in team to get an entrepreneurial
idea
5- Can transfer an entrepreneurial idea into a
useful project to the entrepreneur and to
the society
6- Manage the project professionally
d. General Skills
Course Contents 1- Introduction to Entrepreneurship concepts
2- Characteristics and Capabilities of the
Entrepreneur
3- Types of Small-Sized Entrepreneurial
Businesses and Methods of Establishment
4- Generating the Entrepreneurial Idea and
Studying its Feasibility
5- Enterprise Strategic Plan (ESP) Enterprise
Action Plan (EAP)
6- Entrepreneurial Business Establishment and
Inaugural Preparation
7- Professional Management of the
Entrepreneurial Project
Learning Material

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Lecture Videos 10 videos
Lecture PPTs 12
Lecture Handouts/Notes 12
Other 1- Global forum for rural advisory services
(GFRAS). Module 11: Agricultural
Entrepreneurship. The Agricultural
Entrepreneurship module is developed as
part of the New Extensionist Learning Kit
http://www.g-fras.org/fr/652-the-new-
extensionist-core-competencies-for-
individuals.html.
2- Entrepreneurship. Cairo University, first
edition, September 2019.
3- Elraghy Charity Foundation. 100
entrepreneurship stories. Available at:
www.neqdar.com
4- Global forum for rural advisory services
(GFRAS). Module 11: Agricultural
Entrepreneurship. The Agricultural
Entrepreneurship module is developed as
part of the New Extensionist Learning Kit
http://www.g-fras.org/fr/652-the-new-
extensionist-core-competencies-for-
individuals.html.
5- Antoncic, B., 2007. Intrapreneurship: a
comparative structural equation modeling
study. Industrial Management & Data
Systems: Bingley.
6- Antoncic, B. and Hisrich, R.D., 2004.
Corporate entrepreneurship contingencies
and organizational wealth creation.
Journal of Management Development:
Bingley.
7- Anderson, T., Curley M.G. and Formica,
P., 2010. Knowledge-Driven
Entrepreneurship: The Key to Social and
Economic Transformation. Springer
Verlag: Heidelberg.
8- Third-party links, i.e., MIT OCW on
entrepreneurship
(https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-
of-management/15-390-new-enterprises-
spring-2013/video-tutorials/lecture-1)
Assessment tasks

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Quizzes 12
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