LEVERAGING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES

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Overview

Entrepreneurial ventures and startups are vital to economic growth and job creation. You will explore and provide synthesis between theoretical underpinnings and practical applications in start-ups and/or entrepreneurial ventures on contemporary issues of design thinking, lean-start-up and business model canvas principles. Upon completion of this subject, you should to be … For more content click the Read more button below.

Entrepreneurial ventures and startups are vital to economic growth and job creation. You will explore and provide synthesis between theoretical underpinnings and practical applications in start-ups and/or entrepreneurial ventures on contemporary issues of design thinking, lean-start-up and business model canvas principles. Upon completion of this subject, you should to be able to critically evaluate entrepreneurship validation tools. A distinct theory-for-practice-sake perspective is provided whereby you will apply these tools in start-ups and ventures of your choice.

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School

Subject coordinator

Alex Maritz

Subject type

Postgraduate

Year level

Year Level 5 - Masters

AQF level

Level 9 - Masters Degree

Available as elective

Available to study abroad / exchange students

Yes

Capstone subject
Capstones provide students with a way of integrating and applying knowledge and skills gained throughout their course.

Yes

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Career ready

Work based learning (placement):No

Graduate capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing

COMMUNICATION - Cultural Intelligence and Global Perspective

DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Leadership and Teamwork

Subject intended learning outcomes

On successful completion you will be able to:

Assess the knowledge in entrepreneurial ventures through education and research which is entrepreneurial, innovative, responsible and engaged, and which can be applied in a range of entrepreneurial and practice contexts

Critically reflect upon and analyse complex entrepreneurship opportunities using contemporary entrepreneurship validation tools

Use complex-problem solving techniques to critically review entrepreneurship opportunities for a range of stakeholder perspectives inclusive of leadership and teamwork dynamics.

Gather, critically review and use information to meet entrepreneurship and practice outcomes through design thinking, product design, lean-startup and business model design techniques

Effectively formulate personal opinions and integrate the opinions of others into cogent entrepreneurship and startup arguments

Learning activities

Presentation about a successful recent entrepreneurial venture that has been launched using design thinking principles. Write a venture development plan that succinctly discusses the financial, marketing and organizational parts of the business venture to be launched.

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