Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Study in Innovation and Entrepreneurship prepares students to become entrepreneurial leaders who can transform innovative ideas into positive impact. They develop the mindsets, tools, and practical skills to disrupt our ways of ‘doing’ business, community, and policy with purpose. Students have the opportunity not only to collaborate with peers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to creatively solve real-world problems, but also to apply their learning in a range of areas that includes launching new ventures, product and service development, social and technological innovation for sustainability, music festivals and arts event management, and digital games. With the help of design thinking, agile project management, and experiential learning focused on innovators’ skills and actions, they develop a critical understanding of the grand challenges we are facing and learn to operate resiliently under ambiguity and uncertainty.

Leveraging a pool of cross-faculty units and co-curricular activities like the start-up programs Genesis and Incubate, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major facilitates diverse student project groups, co-creation and actual venture-building. Regardless of whether students seek to launch their own for-profit or social venture or to join an existing organisation as ‘intrapreneurs,’ they develop crucial future-of-work skills such as creativity, innovation management, and experience design.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship major brings together a multidisciplinary cohort of undergraduate students, academics, and practitioners to spark and drive innovation at the intersection of technological potential, enterprising spirit and social concern.

Options for studying Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Major and minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship is available as both Table A major and minor options in the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Commerce combined degrees.

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship major and minor are also available to students not enrolled in a Commerce degree through the shared pool (Table S) - see the Interdisciplinary Studies Handbook for details.

Please note. Students cannot complete both a major and a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for their degree.

The requirements for the major and minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship can be found in the Unit of study table.

Further information

For further information regarding study in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Sydney, please refer to the Study Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship page.