Entrepreneurship and Innovation
What it takes to innovate, fail, try again and succeed.
Join the business of innovation
With Swinburne’s entrepreneurship and innovation programs, you’ll learn how to become an entrepreneur or intrapreneur who can transform ideas into sustainable, viable realities. Choose from master, double master, graduate certificate and micro-unit options.
First and still leading
This is Australia’s first entrepreneurship program and its immersive, industry-linked experiential focus means it’s still a leader in entrepreneurship.
Industry connections are our strength
The program suite is created with the strategic insight and advisory of our industry partners. With their expertise and ours, we take entrepreneurial theories, design thinking, models and methods and combine them with practical experiences, personal insights from our industry partners, real-world examples of entrepreneurship, applied projects, and site visits.
Learn how to innovate
When you graduate, you’ll know each stage of the business cycle in-depth. You’ll know how intrapreneurs innovate within existing organisations and how entrepreneurs disrupt with new initiatives. You’ll understand the capacity and potential uses of the information systems, business analytics and data visualisation vital to the future of business.
Turn an idea into a viable product
During our Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, you’ll have the opportunity to take your idea through to commercialisation. Our experts can help you develop a business case, which you may pitch for venture funding from Swinburne’s Innovation Precinct.
Courses available
This four-unit certificate provides a foundation in entrepreneurship and innovation, which can springboard you into the full Swinburne entrepreneurship master program or be a standalone degree that updates your existing skills and refresh your career.
| Graduate Certificate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | ||||
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| Location Hawthorn Campus |
Duration 6 months full-time or equivalent part-time |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes Please note: This course will not be taking applications for 2024 |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)* |
* Fees are annual full-time estimates for students commencing in 2024 only: Tuition fees as published are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. These fees apply for units studied in 2024 only and may change for units studied in future years. If part-time study is permitted, annual fees will be proportionally lower based on the number of units taken per semester.
The highest-level, industry co-created program that hones your entrepreneurial mindset and skills. Graduate knowing what’s required to succeed at each stage of the business cycle so you can transform ideas into sustainable, viable realities.
| Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location Hawthorn Campus |
Duration 1 year, 1.5 years or 2 years full-time or equivalent part-time (dependent on prior qualifications and experience) |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes Please note: This course will not be taking applications for 2024 |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)* $34,900 |
* Fees are annual full-time estimates for students commencing in 2024 only: Tuition fees as published are subject to change given individual circumstances at enrolment. These fees apply for units studied in 2024 only and may change for units studied in future years. If part-time study is permitted, annual fees will be proportionally lower based on the number of units taken per semester.
The highest-level, industry co-created program that hones your entrepreneurial mindset and skills. Graduate knowing what’s required to succeed at each stage of the business cycle so you can transform ideas into sustainable, viable realities.
| Graduate Certificate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | ||||
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| Location Hawthorn Campus |
Duration 6 months full time |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes * This course will not be taking applications for 2024. |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)** A$21,100 (total for 2023) |
** The indicative course fees shown in Course Search apply to international students for the relevant year only. They are based on a standard study load per year. However, please note that fees are assessed according to a student's study load in each semester, and variation to study load will result in an adjustment to tuition fees. All fees are subject to annual review and may be adjusted.
The highest-level, industry co-created program that hones your entrepreneurial mindset and skills. Graduate knowing what’s required to succeed at each stage of the business cycle so you can transform ideas into sustainable, viable realities.
| Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location Hawthorn Campus |
Duration 2 year/s |
Delivery Blended mode |
Intakes * This course will not be taking applications for 2024. |
Course fee (per year if studying full-time)** A$46,240 |
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"I had an idea, quit my job, and enrolled in the AGSE. I loved the practicality of the course. And it helped me take my own idea, RefLIVE, from start-up to the number one technology of choice for referees in over 80 countries."
Simon Murphy , Founder & CEO, RefLIVE
Study a postgraduate course in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swinburne
Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Department Chair Professor Milé Terziovski and Pitcher Partners Executive Director David Knowles talk about Swinburne’s Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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"Entrepreneurs drive development, they create new businesses, improve organisations and provide benefits to society.
The Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the postgraduate program for those that see opportunities and want to seize them and to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
The MEI program focuses learning on fundamental tools and skills necessary to start a business and to drive innovation in an organisation.
From understanding your customers’ needs to commercialising your innovation, the program positions you as a founder, a corporate entrepreneur or to work in the entrepreneurial ecosystem."
Dr Richard Laferriere , Course director, Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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