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BUSS4908: Innovator's Skills and Actions
2026 unit information
This unit presents students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge and hone foundational skills in innovation and entrepreneurship: creativity and ideation; design thinking and empathy; opportunity framing, identification and construction; experimentation and hypothesis validation; systems thinking; critical thinking; project management; and networking skills. The unit introduces various frameworks and processes for developing ideas and opportunities into viable business/social venture concepts; and requires students to apply them. The unit requires students to engage with the disciplines and industries/sectors in which they are interested, where they actively search for and construct opportunities. Students are introduced to and work with the Business, Lean and Impact-Gap Canvas frameworks. At the completion of this unit, students have a 'bank' of business/social venture opportunities ready for further validation and development as well as an insights map of their own understanding and knowledge of their chosen discipline or industry.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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Students must meet the entry requirements for the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Advanced Coursework) including completion of a pass undergraduate degree |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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SIEN1001 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Identify and research a social problem or grand challenge as an entrepreneur and innovator, and examine it to discover potential business, technological, social development or cultural opportunities that demonstrate creativity and innovation.
- LO2. Explore and apply design methods that provide creative and innovative means in entrepreneurship and society.
- LO3. Research and design individually and collectively to productively develop a viable opportunity.
- LO4. Communicate promising evidence-based business, technological, social development or cultural opportunities.
- LO5. Identify and describe the upcoming actions in a sustainable and future-oriented way.
- LO6. Research perspectives, lived experiences and evaluations from customers, users, stakeholders and/or experts and consolidate learnings.
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Semester 1 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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