Creativity and Innovation

Course aim

This course introduces principles and practices of entrepreneurial creativity and innovation to undergraduate students. This course is to help students understand and implement creativity processes for solving problems and for the development of innovation activities in new and established organisations.

Course content

Innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity
Creativity and the individual
Creativity in the organisational context
Barriers to creativity and innovation
Managing creativity and innovation in organisations
Building the innovation capability of an organisation

Textbook(s)

Stauffer, D A 2016, Developing Your Innovator Mindset, MinneApplePress, Minneapolis

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	3 hours x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY WEST (INTENSIVE)
Seminar (may include additional hours for field trips to business and industry)	30 hours x N/A
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
Online	3 hours x 13 weeks

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

Assessment

Assignment, Group Report with Peer Review, Ideas Journal, Individual Report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 3)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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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.