Business Innovation and Professional Practice
Overview
This unit aims to introduce you to creative and entrepreneurial mindsets through design. Have you ever had a great idea and been unsure about how to bring it to life? Have you discovered a wicked problem but not known how to approach it? Have you wondered how successful people got to where they are? Creativity and entrepreneurship is often shrouded in mystery with lightning bolts seemingly striking geniuses who proliferate ideas.
This hands-on, experiential unit, focuses on building entrepreneurial and creative mindsets, and practical skills. Teams will follow industry leading frameworks spanning design thinking, and business modelling to collaboratively bring sophisticated, considered and innovative business concepts to life.
Requisites
31-January-2025
30-May-2025
26-September-2025
30-January-2026
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Explore and ideate using a range of methods from different disciplines and professional practices
- Develop human-centred insights to inform and guide innovation
- Employ creative thinking to develop innovative ideas and concepts
- Identify and apply factors influencing creativity and entrepreneurship to self, teams and organisations
- Collaborate and participate in team and individual activities to explore and reflect on entrepreneurial practices and mindsets
- Employ ways of working fit for modern working environments
Teaching methods
All applicable locations
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
On-campus |
2 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| On-campus (Class 2) |
2 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| Live Online (Lecture) |
1 | 12 weeks | 12 |
| Unspecified Activities (Independent Learning) |
7.5 | 12 weeks | 90 |
| Total | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | Group | 40 - 60% | 3,4,5,6 |
| Presentation | Individual | 20 - 30% | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |
| Presentation | Individual | 20 - 30% | 2,3,4 |
Content
- Setting the scene: wicked problems, mega trends, and entrepreneurial ecosystems
- The creative and entrepreneurial mindset
- Understanding creativity
- The universal nature of entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship and inclusivity
- Transformative entrepreneurship
- Ethics in entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship and creativity in practice
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.