Portal:Social entrepreneurship/Curriculum/General/Developing a Social Entrepreneurial Idea

Before you start

Recommended preparation

It may be wise to check out some of the earlier modules and look ahead to what's coming. This module is pivotal.

Hints

Reminders

• Recall community lead innovation.
• Consider how this module is affected by the others.

Growth Opportunities

Include ...

• Developing an awareness of options for finding or generating social entrepreneurial ideas
  • Generating questions
• Learning about techniques for idea elicitation and development.
• Coming up with an idea for your project.
• Taking the idea to fruition.
• Learning how to facilitate, catalyse and/or participate meaningfully in collaborative idea generation and refinement.

Guidance

Getting there

• Draw up a checklist of what needs to happen for the seed of an idea to grow into towering tree.
• Share it with others, and consider a joint checklist.
• Revisit and modify your checklist frequently and notice how it changes.
• What have you learned in the process?

Next

Next step

Take a look at the relevant Activities and do those which are best suited to your learning style and which meet your needs.