Postgraduate Course: AI Entrepreneurial Mindset (CMSE11704)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | In an era of rapid AI adoption, this course explores how artificial intelligence can be used to create and grow entrepreneurial ventures. It focuses on how AI can shape entrepreneurial ideas, support opportunity recognition, and enhance decision-making across the entrepreneurial process. Students will examine how ventures built around AI differ from those that use AI as a tool, and why these distinctions are critical for entrepreneurs. Designed to develop an entrepreneurial mindset in the context of emerging technologies, the course helps students understand how AI can inform customer insight, support lean and agile start-up practices, and enable the development of innovative, scalable business models. |
| Course description |
The course aims to introduce students to the transformative role of AI in entrepreneurship, focusing on how it can shape and influence business models. The course emphasises the distinction between harnessing AI as a tool within existing business models and creating businesses centred on developing AI technologies. Through this exploration, students will explore how these different approaches affect the entrepreneurial process, from opportunity recognition to scaling ventures. The course provides practical insights into leveraging AI responsibly and strategically in developing sustainable, innovative business models.
Topics to be explored include, but are not limited to:
- Understand AI's role in Entrepreneurship
- Differentiate AI-Driven Business Models
- Develop Business Models Integrating AI
- Explore Ethical and Strategic Implications
Outline content:
- Differentiating AI-enhanced businesses from AI-centric businesses
- Opportunity recognition and value creation with AI
- Business Model development in the AI Context
- AI adoption as a scaling strategy for venture creation
- The future of AI and Entrepreneurship (e.g., emerging trends; responsible innovation)
Student learning experience:
The course blends lectures, case studies, and interactive workshops to explore the strategic integration of AI into entrepreneurship. Students will examine real-world examples to understand the nuanced differences between leveraging AI and building AI-centric businesses.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is available to MSc AI for Business and MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation students only. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 3 (Sem 2) |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
86 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Portfolio (Individual) - Assesses all course Learning Outcomes |
| Feedback |
Formative: Feedback will be provided throughout the course.
Summative: Feedback will be provided on assessment within agreed deadlines. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the role of AI in entrepreneurship
- Communicate complex concepts effectively by presenting and justifying the use of AI in a real-world business model
- Demonstrate an ability to address complex challenges by adopting AI in the entrepreneurial process
- Engage in reflective practice to enhance entrepreneurial thinking
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Understand how to manage and sustain successful individual and group relationships in order to achieve positive and responsible outcomes, in a range of virtual and face-to-face environments.
Communication, ICT, and Numeracy Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Convey meaning and message through a wide range of communication tools, including digital technology and social media; to understand how to use these tools to communicate in ways that sustain positive and responsible relationships.
Practice: Applied Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Apply creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, sustainable and responsible business solutions to address social, economic and environmental global challenges.
Knowledge and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of contemporary organisational disciplines; comprehend the role of business within the contemporary world; and critically evaluate and synthesise primary and secondary research and sources of evidence in order to make, and present, well informed and transparent organisation-related decisions, which have a positive global impact. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Augusto Rocha
Tel:
Email: Augusto.Rocha@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | |
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