bus3enx entrepreneurship

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

BUS3ENX

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

This subject addresses La Trobe's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Essential. Innovation and Entrepreneurship is about using your creativity to generate new ideas, understand and solve complex problems and thrive in a fast-changing world.

Subject outline

This subject offers you the opportunity to use disciplinary knowledge and skills to resolve a business challenge. The subject attracts students from a range of fields, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to the researching, analysis and problem-solving aspects of the challenge. In teams, you will be required to design entrepreneurship validation tools aimed at creating sustainable value through the provision of a particular product or service to meet an identified market opportunity. The projects aim to enhance the well-being of your community or aim to solve a social, health, economic or environmental problem. The subject is designed to provide you with the opportunity to enhance, demonstrate and document work-ready skills appropriate to your chosen career path.

SchoolLa Trobe Business School

Credit points15

Subject Co-ordinatorSuzanne Young

Available to Study Abroad StudentsNo

Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG

Exchange StudentsNo

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites Student must be enrolled in one of the following courses: LBAB, LBABM, LBABK, LDAB, LAAB and student must have completed at least 240 credit points of subjects relevant to this course.

Co-requisitesN/A

Incompatible subjects BUS3ENT

Equivalent subjectsN/A

Special conditionsN/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource TypeTitleResource RequirementAuthor and YearPublisher
ReadingsEntrepreneurship and Small Business, 4th Asia Pacific EditionRecommendedMichael Schaper, Thierry Volery, Paull Weber, Brian Gibson (2014)John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ReadingsEntrepreneurship Learner ResourcePrescribedDidasko Digital, 2017Didasko Group

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. Identify a business venture by analysing the environment and presenting alternative futures, and establish good social and financial outcomes

Activities:
Present written and oral responses online in group presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

02. Critically analyse a business plan by investigating opportunities to extend a business and adapt to achieve social and financial outcomes

Activities:
Present written and oral responses online in group presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

03. Present a convincing and novel identification of business problems from a company perspective and to evaluate future entrepreneurial ideas

Activities:
Present and discuss written and oral responses online in group presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Inquiry and Analytical Skills(Creative Problem-solving)

04. Engage with group members to offer diverse perspectives about a business and to reflect on the social, environmental and current issues facing a business

Activities:
Provide online, in group presentation, an analysis of successful entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)

05. Formulate a business plan including values, norms and behaviours of an innovative or entrepreneurial idea.

Activities:
Present and discuss analysis and research outcomes in group, written and oral responses online
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

06. Design and deliver a group presentation about an entrepreneurial business venture

Activities:
The development of a detailed entrepreneurial plan with supporting business and research data
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)

07. Critically analyse a business venture by applying and monitoring the creative and innovative ideas that can be applied given the complex and dynamic global business environment

Activities:
Present and discuss written and oral responses online in group presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

08. Participate in a team to analyse and present a case study about an entrepreneurial business.

Activities:
The development of a detailed entrepreneurial plan with supporting business and research data
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

09. Develop and write a business plan using both professional and academic references

Activities:
The development of a detailed entrepreneurial plan with supporting business and research data
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Literacies and Communication Skills(Writing,Speaking,Cultural Literacy)

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