1) a. There is a new University built in your area. Write down six (6) opportunities you can take as an Entrepreneur to serve this University community to generate impressive wealth. b. Choose one of those opportunities you have identified in (1a) and write a business plan as an Entrepreneur for financial support from an investor. 2) Nana Kwame agrees with his Entrepreneurship Lecturer that no business can stand the test of competition without being innovative, hence the need for employees to be intrapreneurs. Discuss intrapreneurship and explain five (5) probable reasons for the need of intrapreneurship in Ghanaian work places.

1) a. There is a new University built in your area. Write down six (6) opportunities you can take as an Entrepreneur to serve this University community to generate impressive wealth. b. Choose one of those opportunities you have identified in (1a) and write a business plan as an Entrepreneur for financial support from an investor. 2) Nana Kwame agrees with his Entrepreneurship Lecturer that no business can stand the test of competition without being innovative, hence the need for employees to be intrapreneurs. Discuss intrapreneurship and explain five (5) probable reasons for the need of intrapreneurship in Ghanaian work places.

Management, Loose-Leaf Version

13th Edition

ISBN:9781305969308

Author:Richard L. Daft

Publisher:Richard L. Daft

Chapter8: Strategy Formulation And Execution

Section: Chapter Questions

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