Module information on this degree can be found below, separated by year of study.

The module information below applies for the current academic year. The academic year runs from August to July; the 'current year' switches over at the end of July.

Students select optional courses subject to rules specified in the Mechanical Engineering Student Handbook,  for example at most three Design and Business courses. Please note that numbers are limited on some optional courses and selection criteria will apply.

Entrepreneurship

Module aims

 Module outline:

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Reading list

Week 01

  • Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

    Elliott & Thompson

  • Furr, Nathan R., author.

    Harvard Business Review Press

  • The Discipline of Innovation

    Peter Drucker

    Harvard Business Publishing

  • Byers, Thomas

    2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

  • Clayton M. Christensen

  • Craig, N and Snook, S (2014). From Purpose to Impact. Harvard Business Review.

    Craig, N and Snook, S

Week 02

  • Ries, Eric, 1978-.

    Portfolio Penguin

  • Maurya, Ash.

    3rd ed., O'Reilly Media Incorporated

  • Mollick, Ethan, 1975- author.

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wharton School Press

  • Bock, Adam J ; George, Gerard

    Pearson Education Limited

  • John Mullins, Randy Komisar

    Harvard Business Publishing

  • Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life

    Cyril Bouquet ; Jean-Louis Barsoux ; Michael Wade

    Harvard business review Harvard Business Review

  • Aulet, Bill, 1958- author.

    Wiley

  • Seelig, Tina

  • Seelig, Tina

Week 03

  • Maurya, Ash.

    3rd ed., O'Reilly Media Incorporated

  • Fitzpatrick, Rob,

    Rob Fitzpatrick

  • Fitzpatrick, Rob (Entrepreneur), author.

    California : Createspace Independent Learning Platform

  • Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

    Elliott & Thompson

  • Gruber, Marc, author.

    Harlow, England : Pearson

Week 04

  • Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

    Elliott & Thompson

  • Blank, Steve ; Dorf, Bob

    John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

  • Blank, Steven G. (Steven Gary), author.

    Fifth edition., Wiley

Week 05

  • Mollick, Ethan, 1975- author.

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wharton School Press

  • Maurya, Ash.

    3rd ed., O'Reilly Media Incorporated

Week 06

  • Savoia, Alberto, author.

    First edition., New York, NY : HarperOne

  • Osterwalder, Alexander ; Bland, David J

    John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

  • Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

    Elliott & Thompson

  • Lean startup and the business model: Experimentation revisited

    Felin, Teppo ; Gambardella, Alfonso ; Stern, Scott ; Zenger, Todd

    Long range planning Elsevier BV

Week 08

  • Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

    Elliott & Thompson

  • Spinelli, Stephen.

    9th ed., International ed., McGraw-Hill/Irwin

  • Scarborough, Norman M., author.

    9th ed.,

  • 12 Books That Every Leader Should Read

    Robert Sutton

  • Byers, Thomas

    2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

  • Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks

    Netflix

  • Horowitz, Ben, author.

    HarperCollins Publishers

Week 09

  • Byers, Thomas

    2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

  • Mollick, Ethan, 1975- author.

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wharton School Press

  • An entrepreneur's guide to the venture capital galaxy

    De Clercq, D. ; Fried, V.H. ; Lehtonen, O. ; Sapienza, H.J.

    Academy of Management Perspectives Academy of Management

  • Feld, Brad,

    Fourth edition., John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,

  • Byers, Thomas

    2025 release.; International student edition., McGraw Hill

  • Spinelli, Stephen,

    Tenth edition.; International student edition., McGraw-Hill Education; McGraw-Hill Education

  • Clarysse, Bart, 1969-

    Elliott & Thompson

Week 10

  • Whistleblower Shook Theranos And His Family --- Tyler Shultz wanted to shield reputation of grandfather George Shultz, a Theranos director

    John Carreyrou

    The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition Eastern edition, Dow Jones & Company Inc

  • McGinn, Robert E.

  • Palmer, D

    Emerald

Module leaders

Dr Tim Weiss