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.

Portfolio

Office of the Provost

Subject coordinator

Alex Maritz

Subject type

Postgraduate

Year level

Year Level 5 - Masters

AQF level

Level 9 - Masters Degree

Available as elective

No

Available to study abroad / exchange students

Yes

Capstone subject

Yes

Academic progress review - Schedule A subject

No

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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:
1.
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
2.
Critically reflect upon and analyse complex entrepreneurship opportunities using contemporary entrepreneurship validation tools
3.
Use complex-problem solving techniques to critically review entrepreneurship opportunities for a range of stakeholder perspectives inclusive of leadership and teamwork dynamics.
4.
Gather, critically review and use information to meet entrepreneurship and practice outcomes through design thinking, product design, lean-startup and business model design techniques
5.
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.

Requisite rules

Requisites