Entrepreneurship in Government and Large Organisations (11200.3)

For many established and growing businesses, the ability to identify and effectively respond to new opportunities is increasingly central to their success, not just to survive, but to thrive. Th is unit explores large private, non for profit organisations and governments which draw on approaches and practices common to entrepreneurial start-ups to help them identify new market opportunities, increase growth, develop innovation 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 real world practice and experience across different aspects of non-profits, government, and big business in contemporary and future business environments.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Distinguish the key features of the intrapreneurship within a range of established organisations (Profit, Non-profit and Public sector);
2. Summarize global key insights about creative innovative practice for intrapreneurship into practice in your own project, organisation, or industry;
3. Develop and lead an innovative research project (Large Private, Non-Profit and Government organisations), write recommendations to help the manage change, and reflect on practice within an organisation; and
4. Critically evaluate innovative practice in government and large organisations and identify the steps that could be taken to improve the effectiveness in organisations and institutions for the future.
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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 - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
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 - evaluate and adopt new technology
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

7934 Global Entrepreneurship.

Assumed knowledge

None.