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Unit of Study BUSN3011 - New Venture Creation (2025)

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Unit description

Provides students with the insights and skills entrepreneurs require to create new ventures. Introduces the process of identifying new business opportunities and informs how to select a suitable business model, protect key intellectual properties, and adopt an effective organisational structure. The unit concludes with strategies to sustain growth and options to harvest new ventures.

Unit content

Module 1: Introduction to new venture creation

Module 2: Recognising and seizing opportunities

Module 3: Business models for the 21st-century and beyond

Module 4: Knowledge protection and organisation structures

Module 5: Managing growth, crises, and recovery

Module 6: Harvest options and strategies

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Gold Coast
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Melbourne N/A
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Online
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Papua New Guinea - IBSU Port Moresby N/A
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Perth N/A
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Sydney N/A
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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

assess and identify opportunities for new venture creation

develop a business model suitable for new ventures

identify intellectual properties of strategic importance to new ventures and ways of protecting them

recommend organisational structures and strategies to manage new ventures' growth and harvest options.

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