Entrepreneurship in Government and Large Organisations (11200.2)

For many established businesses, the ability to identify and effectively respond to new opportunities is increasingly central to their success, and indeed, survival. However, organisations draw on approaches and practices common to entrepreneurial start-ups to help them identify new market opportunities, innovation and to identify and respond to these opportunities. This is sometimes called 'intrapreneurship'. The aim of this unit is to provide students with insights into the intrapreneurship process. It does so by giving them a WIL experience and work collaboratively across different aspects of government and big business.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Distinguish the key features of the intrapreneurship process within a range of established organisations (Profit, Non-profit and Public sectors);
2. Articulate, pitch and present innovative ideas to a professional audience in both written and verbal forms;
3. Translate global key insights about creative innovative practice for intrapreneurship into practice in your own organisation or industry;
4. Lead innovation and manage change and reflect on practice within an organisation; and
5. Explore innovative practice using technology virtual team and identify the steps that could be taken to improve the effectiveness of virtual teams.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

7934 Global Entrepreneurship

Assumed knowledge

None.