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Undergraduate Minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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The Centre for the Development of Entrepreneurs offers a minor study stream in innovation and entrepreneurship from 2009. This includes four existing undergraduate courses:

What does this minor stream offer?

The entrepreneurship and innovation stream takes you through the process of identifying and selecting business opportunities and then establishing, marketing and financing a successful new venture in the electronic age. If you would like to "be your own boss", then you will be able to apply this knowledge to start your own new venture (perhaps based on your major study stream or some other business opportunity that you have identified).

Even if you don't think that you will start your own venture, this stream will still deliver real value as it will give you an improved understanding of the way that small business works, and will enable you to help to plan and implement innovation activities in small and large businesses. In addition, this stream will equip you to work with an entrepreneur as a member of a new venture management team.

Each of these courses is a business undergraduate elective or "free elective" (BUGE course) offered to students across the University.

Entrepreneurial Enterprises - BUSS 3043

The aim of this course is to develop student insight into the principles and practices of entrepreneurship and its role in creating enterprises whether these enterprises operate in the profit or not-for-profit sectors, are small, medium, or large.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 36 units (i.e. first-year students can not enrol in this course)

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Entrepreneurial Commercialisation for New Ventures - BUSS 3048

This course aims to develop insight and understanding into the principles and practices of marketing for growth-oriented entrepreneurial enterprises, and the commercialisation of new technology-based products and services for new business ventures that have limited resources and that target national and international markets.

Prerequisites: none, but you may find this course easier if you have already done Entrepreneurial Enterprises (above), and if you have taken the Division Core Course: Marketing Principles Trading and Exchange.

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Entrepreneurial Business Planning - BUSS 3049

The aim of this course is to provide students with a framework for understanding the processes involved in developing plans for new venture start-ups or for existing businesses that would be suitable for use as a "blueprint" for developing an entrepreneurial venture or as a document for raising finance. At the end of this course, students will have developed a comprehensive business plan for a new product or service concept. This course was last offered in 2006.

Prerequisites: Entrepreneurial Enterprises

Introduction to eBusiness - INFS 2019, or Mobile Enterprise Workshop - INFS 4017

Introduction to eBusiness gives you a good overview of how business is managed in the electronic age, by using electronic communications.  This is directly relevant to entrepreneurship and innovation in a new venture, as well as in an existing business.

Alternatively, you may wish to apply for the course Mobile Enterprise Workshop, which involves developing and presenting a business proposal for a start-up venture in the field of mobile communications.

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