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SIEN1001: Innovators' Skills and Actions
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
| Code | SIEN1001 |
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| Academic unit | Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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SIEN1000 |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Identify and describe a personal focus as entrepreneur and innovator, and use it to discover potential business, technological, social development or cultural opportunities that demonstrate creativity and originality.
- LO2. Analyze opportunities and contrast strengths and weaknesses.
- LO3. Assemble and work productively in a team to develop the opportunity.
- LO4. Present the most promising business, technological, social development or cultural opportunities.
- LO5. Identify and describe in actionable detail the next three steps to develop further the idea.
- LO6. Seek opinions, perspectives and evaluations from customers, users, stakeholders and/or experts and consolidate learnings.
Unit outlines
Unit outlines will be available 2 weeks before the first day of teaching for the relevant session.
- Semester 1, 2023 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2023 [Normal day] - Remote
- Semester 2, 2023 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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