{"id":2315,"date":"2013-03-08T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:08:37","slug":"kent-business-school-dragons-judge-anthropology-students-on-enterprise-concept-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2013\/03\/kent-business-school-dragons-judge-anthropology-students-on-enterprise-concept-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Business School Dragons judge anthropology students on enterprise concept presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/profiles\/staff\/shirole_rajendra.html\">Rajendra Shirol&eacute;<\/a> (Director of the Kent MBA) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kbs\/profiles\/staff\/souza_monteiro_diogo.html\">Dr Diogo Souza-Monteiro<\/a> (Lecturer in Marketing) recently judged a selection of presentations made by students taking the Business Principles for Biodiversity Conservation DICE module.\u00a0 Dr Nigel Hardiman, DICE Lecturer in Conservation Business said this process should be a &#8220;fun and enjoyable learning experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Based on a Dragons Den format, students were asked to present their business plans to the &#8216;Dragons&#8217; who each had a notional &pound;100,000 to inject into the business as &#8216;impact investors&#8217;.\u00a0 The students were asked to bid for an amount of this fund, and were judged on their presentations&#8217; biodiversity and commercial merits.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the seven presentations, Kirsty Leitch from the conservation and tourism programme won with her project on Lagan Tourism Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Kent Business School representatives agreed that this was a great opportunity for inter schools collaboration and to see good ideas for conservation oriented businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajendra Shirol&eacute; (Director of the Kent MBA) and Dr Diogo Souza-Monteiro (Lecturer in Marketing) recently judged a selection of presentations made by students taking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2013\/03\/kent-business-school-dragons-judge-anthropology-students-on-enterprise-concept-presentations\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,9886,9884],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}