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This unit offers a critical exploration of the evolving landscape of entrepreneurship, innovation, and start-up development. It focuses on the strategic and contextual factors that shape new start-up creation, guiding you to assess the economic and societal impacts of innovation, analyse key drivers of start-up success across industries, and evaluate the viability and scalability of start-up ventures. You will explore the core stages of the entrepreneurial process, including opportunity identification, feasibility analysis, business modelling, funding, and growth planning. The unit places particular emphasis on how creativity, innovation, and digital transformation are reshaping start-up business models and market dynamics. Through real-world case studies and practical activities, you will strengthen your ability to manage uncertainty, assess entrepreneurial risk, and design start-ups that are innovative, sustainable, and competitive.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Completion of 48 credit points in first year of study.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE and In-Class Feedback
Group assessment (assignment 2) was very challenging. I loved this unit. It was so interesting and I would have loved to do assessment 2 on my own.
Simplify Assessment 2 into an individual task to help students focus on developing their innovative business startup idea.
Feedback from SUTE
The course is very well structured and clear. The courses recording is delivered very clearly and well
Continuously refining and improving the unit.
Feedback from SUTE
The lecturer is attentive and also goes the extra mile to assist students
Thanks, continuously refining and improving the unit.
- Demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship, innovation, and new start-ups through critical review, synthesis of current knowledge and developments, and evaluation of their importance within society.
- Critically analyse and synthesise the knowledge, qualities, and skills required to become a successful entrepreneur in start-up ventures.
- Demonstrate creative and innovative thinking skills, along with critical thinking, to identify a new start-up opportunity and evaluate its feasibility.
- Synthesise knowledge and exercise critical thinking to apply appropriate frameworks that evaluate the preferred business model for the start-up opportunity.
- Apply technical skills to develop and communicate a business plan for launching a start-up venture in both oral and written formats.
Not applicable
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 40% | |||||
| 2 - Report - 30% | |||||
| 3 - Presentation - 30% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||