Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Course aim

The aim of this course is to provide existing and nascent entrepreneurs with a framework for thinking about the driving forces that underpin growth oriented entrepreneurial businesses. These are businesses that are built around opportunities that provide the capacity for accelerated growth and the ability to produce superior returns. The course will equip students with team working skills and an awareness of different contexts of entrepreneurship across borders.

Course content

The course content applies to newly formed ventures, existing small to medium size growth-oriented ventures, and entrepreneurial ventures within larger corporations.
The course involves a range of topics including: the concept of entrepreneurship, drivers of the entrepreneurial process, and profile and characteristics of entrepreneurs; creativity and idea generation; recognising, evaluating and screening opportunities; mobilising resources, putting together the entrepreneurial team and writing business plans; managing growth and harvest; entrepreneurial finance; innovation and corporate entrepreneurship (intrapreneurship); family entrepreneurship; franchising; and personal ethics.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	3 hours x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External (Asynchronous Online Discussion)	3 hours equiv. x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HOPKINS TRAINING AND EDUCATION GROUP, ONLINE
External (Asynchronous Online Discussion)	3 hours equiv. x 11 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOM, MANDARIN
Seminar	8 hours x 3 days
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, SOUTHWEST JIATONG UNIVERSITY, MANDARIN
Seminar	8 hours x 3 days
INTERNAL, CITY WEST (INTENSIVE)
Seminar	33 hours x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Examination, Group Business Plan, Individual assignment, Individual Business Plan Project, Individual Case Write-ups, Individual Responses to / Discussion of Other Students' Case Write-ups

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 3)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
International students and students undertaking this course as part of a postgraduate fee paying program must refer to the relevant program home page to determine the cost for undertaking this course.

Non-award enrolment
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.