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INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS, GRADE 9 OR 10, OPEN (BBI1O, BBI2O) 33
Entrepreneurship
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
• describe characteristics and skills associated with successful entrepreneurs and demonstrate an understanding of the contributions to Canadian business of selected entrepreneurs;
• analyse the importance of invention and innovation in entrepreneurship.
Specific Expectations
Characteristics, Skills, and Contributions
By the end of this course, students will:
– describe the characteristics and skills often associated with successful entrepreneurs at the local, national, and international level;
– analyse their own entrepreneurial strengths and interests;
– describe the lives and accomplishments of a variety of Canadian entrepreneurs;
– describe and evaluate either their own or an existing idea for an entrepreneurial endeavour in their school or community.
Invention and Innovation
By the end of this course, students will:
– describe how entrepreneurs discover opportunities in people’s needs, wants, and problems;
– describe a variety of Canadian inventions (e.g., the snowmobile, basketball, kerosene) and innovations (e.g., IMAX), including Aboriginal inventions and innovations (e.g., goggles, snowshoes, kayaks);
– explain how innovation has affected a variety of goods and services over time (e.g., rotary phone, touch-tone phone, cellphone, camera phone).