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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

Faculty/College

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts

Unit aim

Introduces students to the concepts of entrepreneurship, the new venture creation process, and the entrepreneurial environment. To provide students with an understanding of the entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial behaviour, several entrepreneurship theories and their applications will also be examined and discussed.

Unit content

Module 1: Entrepreneurship & Creativity

Module 2: Strategically Growing the Business

Module 3: Funding the Firm: Capital & Finance

Module 4: Developing a Lean Business Plan

Module 5: Legal and IP Challenges

Module 6: Intrapreneurship

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
1 apply concepts on innovation and creativity
2 discuss contemporary entrepreneurship issues
3 compile a new venture business plan.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. apply concepts on innovation and creativity
  2. discuss contemporary entrepreneurship issues
  3. compile a new venture business plan.

Prescribed texts

  • Frederick, H, O’Connor, A & Kuratko, DF , 2019, Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process and Practice, 5th edn, Cengage Learning, Australia. ISBN: 9780170411752.

  • The following Open Education Resource (OER) can be found at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/493:: Swanson, L, 2017, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit, Open Textbook Library, Minneapolis, USA..

  • The following Open Education Resource (OER) can be found at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/493:: Swanson, L, 2017, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit, Open Textbook Library, Minneapolis, USA..

  • The following Open Education Resource (OER) can be found at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/493:: Swanson, L, 2017, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit, Open Textbook Library, Minneapolis, USA..
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.