What's New? NED Semester 1 Notes are available. Check out DCU's own Business Idea Competition - information and applications can be gotten from the Enterprise Webpage Share your ideas... Discuss projects, ideas and course details on REDNED News, the online newsgroup for NED students. Win Prizes... Find out about the Irish Student Enterprise Awards. Be Inspired... Read about previous winners from DCU of the Student Enterprise Awards.   Welcome to REDNED! Welcome to REDNED; the news group for student entrepreneurs at DCU. Our mission is to provide an interactive learning forum for innovative and proactive students at DCU. The site is primarily dedicated to students in Computer Applications, Business Studies and Electronic Systems who study New Enterprise Development (the NED in REDNED) but all student entrepreneurs are welcome. In true entrepreneurial fashion, this site is a joint venture between students and staff at the University and is maintained by the DCU Student Computer Society Redbrick. What you will find on REDNED: Course material for New Enterprise Development (access for NED students only) REDNEDNEWS: REDNED also has its own news group REDNEDNEWS, where NED students can search for business partners in order to complete their business plans (access for NED students only) Guides to sources of information on developing business ideas, starting and running your own business Student Enterprise Awards What is NED (New Enterprise Development)? Develop your own business idea - it’s great fun and there’s thousands of pounds in prises to be won at the Student Enterprise Awards. New Enterprise Development allows students to exercise their own entrepreneurial flair. Working in groups of 3/4, students generate their own business idea, form a company and draw-up a business plan to market and finance their product or service. To aim of the module is to provide students with an understanding of the processes involved in initiating and developing a new business and to encourage and develop in students the entrepreneurial skills required for such a venture. Business planning requires a vision of "how things will be", supported by key assumptions and data. This module offers a unique opportunity to students from Computer Applications to form teams with students from Business Studies. (Click here for a full course outline). All qualifying projects are submitted to the Enterprise Ireland Student Enterprise Awards where your can win substantial prise money. DCU has an unrivalled track record at the Awards. DCU were overall winners of the 1999 Student Enterprise Awards.

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