Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship (11408.2)

This unit introduces innovation and entrepreneurship concepts and skills in a technology-lead context. As innovation and entrepreneurship are now mainstream business concerns, this unit takes an agnostic approach, seeking instead to impart portable skills for students seeking to develop their respective careers in established or new venture organisations.

For the purposes of this unit, innovation is defined as the process of introducing changes that create new value to an organisation. Entrepreneurship is explored as the willingness to take measured risks in systematically seeking opportunities resulting from innovation, and translating these opportunities into benefits for the organisation and broader communities.

In doing so, students will have exposure to important innovation management skills such as conducting fieldwork in support of ideating innovation solutions, prototyping, valuing an innovation project, designing a business model for their technology solutions, and marketing their innovations. The unit will also give coverage to important ¿soft skills¿ topics such as leading innovation, empathy, team development, creativity, and innovation ethics.

Industry case studies will be utilised in this unit, and this unit will have weekly recorded Q&As with guest speakers.

This unit may also be co-taught with 11530 Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship G.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Identify the need for an innovative solution, generate alternative conceptual solutions, evaluate these solutions and also implement them;
2. Recognise the basic elements of innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation;
3. Appraise decision making responsibilities at the interface between business and innovation;
4. Assess the dynamics of collaborative teams to work effectively and accomplish tasks within given deadlines; and
5. Develop a business model to commercialise a new technology-based idea considering the legal, ethical, and social obligations.

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
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

11530 Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship G

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.