Section outline

  • Welcome to ICT-TEX training course in Entrepreneurship! The course outlines the essential steps you need to take to get started and be a successful entrepreneur in the Textile and Clothing business.


    • Course objectives
      Fashionary — Snejana Onopka

      The aim of the course is to provide basic, practically applicable knowledge and skills needed for starting, managing and growing entrepreneurial business in fashion industry (textile and clothing).

      The main objective of the programme is to help TCI students, practitioners and teachers in starting a new fashion business: from the idea to the financial calculations and the first steps of establishment (the roadmap of TCI entrepreneurial business).

      The course is structured to help new start-ups for successful business in the textile and clothing sector, based on deep knowledge of the market, its composition, segmentation, and technological status. For this purpose students, practitioners and teachers will be led to work individually or in teams on discussion of different case studies.

      Certain approach will allow to equip students, practitioners and teachers with specific knowledge and skills related to market analysis techniques, project management and planning, resource and financial management, relationship and commercial networks building based on their own individual or group development of "mini" projects, resp. cases.

    • Modules and Topics

      Module I. Basic Entrepreneurial Competencies and Prerequisites in TCI

      • Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship in the Textile and Clothing Industry
      • Entrepreneurial Self-Assessment
      • Main Stages of the Entrepreneurial Process in the Textile and Clothing Industry
      • Textile and Clothing Industry Environment for Entrepreneurs
      • Marketing Planning of the Textile and Clothing Business
      • Innovations in the Textile and Clothing Industry


      Module II. Entrepreneurship in TCI

      • Value and Subcontracting Chains in the Textile and Clothing Industry
      • Regulation, Registration and Support of the Entrepreneurial Activity in the textile and Clothing Industry
      • Financing of an Entrepreneurial Business in the Textile and Clothing Industry
      • Business Planning for a Textile and Clothing Enterprise
      • Practical Steps for Starting Your Own Textile and Clothing Business
      • The Entrepreneurial Roadmap in the Textile and Clothing Industry

    • Learning outcomes:
      Knowledge Skills Responsibilities/autonomy
      • Тo understand the basic aspects related to entrepreneurship, business economy and enterprise management
      • To understand the main features of a successful entrepreneur
      • To be aware of the individual entrepreneurial skills to be improved
      • To outline idea generation processes
      • To understand business management techniques and methodologies
      • To state market analysis techniques
      • To appraise the current status of the technological innovation in TCI
      • To acknowledge the main programs / opportunities supporting TCI innovation and technology transfer
      • To understand the main aspects related to finance and funding
      • To have an in-depth knowledge about business planning
      • To understand the main procedures to start a new business
      • To identify the regional and national support programs and organizations for entrepreneurship
      • To apply idea generating techniques to stimulate the innovation process
      • To conduct an evaluation of available opportunities
      • To collect and critically analyze the information
      • To apply market analysis techniques to evaluate a business idea
      • To build a marketing strategy
      •  To define a business model
      • To build a winning team
      • To set price policies and analyze the financial results
      • To define a business plan, set goals and monitoring results
      • To apply all the steps required to start-up a new business
      • To build an entrepreneurial networks and supply chain setting instrument for their management
      • To apply idea generating techniques to stimulate the innovation process
      • To conduct an evaluation of available opportunities
      • To collect and critically analyze the information
      • To apply market analysis techniques to evaluate a business idea
      • To build a marketing strategy
      • To define a business model
      • To build a winning team
      • To set price policies and analyze the financial results
      • To define a business plan, set goals and monitoring results
      • To apply all the steps required to start-up a new business
      • To build an entrepreneurial networks and supply chain setting instrument for their management
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