WOFIE@Deakin

The Workshop For Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WOFIE) was held from 31 October - 4 November 2011 at Deakin University's Melbourne Campus.

Around 40 students registered and attended the event, coming from diverse areas - Business and Law, Engineering, Arts, Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Psychology and Education. Students were placed in teams with mixed disciplinary backgrounds and mixed levels of enrolment - there were a number of PhD and Masters students from the various areas.

Six keynote speakers delivered presentations to the students around the topic of sustainability in action, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student group was given a business challenge that was sourced from an actual operating business or not - for - profit organisation. They were then given the task of developing their ideas around solving their particular sustainability challenge. At the end of the week all student groups presented their ideas in a ten minute presentation to a panel of judges with extensive experience in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship.

More details about group presentations