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Last updated: 4 June 2021
SIT774
For S735, S737, S739, S778, S779: Nil
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 3 hour class per week.
1 x 1 hour scheduled online workshop per week.
This unit will explore technology entrepreneurship, focusing on what it means to engage in a process of innovation, scaling ideas from pipedreams to enterprise solutions for both profit and NGO’s. To extend the reach of entrepreneurship activities, this unit will focus on enterprise level technology and explore the ways in which large and distributed organisations use disruptive technologies to support business. Through a series of case studies and recent research, students will investigate what it means to provide enterprise solutions as well as what is required to create a successful start-up. The case studies will enable students to explore entrepreneurial leadership on both small and large scales, discovering how to develop collaborative partnerships that support today’s technological and social problems. Through an industry-centred problem-based approach to learning, students will explore how to discover opportunity, while critically reflecting on their entrepreneurship-self that informs their career plan. This unit will provide mentor-guided workshops featuring a range of industry guest speakers, immersing students in local and global case studies to explore the nuances of innovation and entrepreneurship, suitable for both small- and enterprise-scale situations. Specific topics covered include: enterprise organisations; venture formation; business strategies; marketing approaches; organisational behaviour; legal and financial aspects; and innovation. This unit focuses on understanding the start-up entrepreneurship culture, particularly in enterprise-level technologically based areas of the economy.
Understanding what an enterprise is and how technology contributes to business process.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO2
Understanding what it means to be an entrepreneur in a variety of contexts.
ULO3
Communicating the enterprise entrepreneurial mindset through pitching a start-up idea.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO3: Digital literacyGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solvingGLO6: Self-management
ULO4
Demonstrating and validating enterprise-level entrepreneurial leadership through the creation of a start-up plan or business solution that evidences a viable and unique technological solution to a pressing industry problem
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solvingGLO7: TeamworkGLO8: Global citizenship
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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