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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major students will be able to:

Major learning outcome
1. Analyse contemporary global and local challenges from multidisciplinary perspectives.
2. Apply concepts and frameworks to identify opportunities to address contemporary global and local challenges through different types of innovation and/or entrepreneurship.
3. Apply creative, critical and design thinking to generate novel ideas and scope new business or social venture opportunities.
4. Validate an original idea and translate it into a prototype of an innovative solution that has credible potential for implementation and/or serving as the basis for launching a start-up.
5. Explain why different stakeholders may have divergent yet valid perspectives on value.
6. Assess potential impacts of an innovation from the perspectives of diverse stakeholders and suggest ways to create shared value.
7. Apply principles of ethics and social responsibility throughout innovation and entrepreneurship processes to achieve desirable economic, social, and environmental outcomes.
8. Work in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams to integrate diverse perspectives to design, develop and implement solutions that satisfy team members and stakeholders.
9. Effectively communicate ideas to diverse audiences by leveraging appropriate vocabulary and communication tools.
10. Apply knowledge about building a successful new business or social venture to specific real-world cases to generate sound, actionable recommendations for the innovators and entrepreneurs involved.