Instructor Resource
Neck, Entrepreneurship, 1e
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Chapter Exercises and Projects
Chapter 5: Entrepreneurship: A Global Social Movement
Chapter Learning Objectives:
5.2 Employ strategies for generating new ideas from which opportunities are born.
5.4 Demonstrate how entrepreneurs find opportunities through active search and
alertness.
5.5 Connect idea generation to opportunity recognition.
Proposed Activities
Activity 1: Opportunity and Value
(This can be done solo or as a team exercise; it can be used for online, face–to-face, or a
blended format)
Your chapter defines opportunity as an apparent way of generating value through
unique, novel, or desirable products or services that have not been previously exploited.
For an opportunity to be viable, the idea must have the capacity to generate value.
Learning Objectives:
5.2 Employ strategies for generating new ideas from which opportunities are born.
5.5 Connect idea generation to opportunity recognition.
Activity 2: Invention versus Innovation
(This can be done solo or as a team exercise; it can be used for online, face–to-face, or a
blended format)
Learning Objectives:
5.1 Explain how the entrepreneurial mindset relates to opportunity recognition.
5.4 Demonstrate how entrepreneurs find opportunities through active search and
alertness.
Activity 3: Finding versus Building
(This can be done solo or as a team exercise; it can be used for online, face–to-face, or a
blended format)
Learning Objectives:
5.3 Apply the two primary pathways to opportunity identification.
5.4 Demonstrate how entrepreneurs find opportunities through active search and
alertness.
Instructor Resource
Neck, Entrepreneurship, 1e
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Activity 4: Debate: But is it ethical to “steal” someone else’s idea and improve
upon it?
(This can be done solo or as a team exercise; it can be used for online, face-to-face, or a
blended format)
Divide into two teams: assign one team to argue for and one team to argue against the
ethics of “improving” on someone else’s idea. Which mindset is more conducive to
entrepreneurialism and why?
Learning Objectives:
5.4 Demonstrate how entrepreneurs find opportunities through active search and
alertness.