Overview
Sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation are processes that seek to exploit opportunities and develop effective, efficient, sustainable solutions to complex problems, and aims to improve business value, as well as addressing sustainability challenges. The unit will include contemporary social, environmental and economic sustainability problems. With a focus on action learning and case study analysis, you will develop the ability to explore entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities that address sustainability challenges in the ecosystem of contemporary enterprises. You will develop problem-solving skills using critical analysis in a practical context. Collaborative practices, such as design thinking, co-creation, and social innovation, will equip you to address sustainability challenges.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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 - 2027
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).
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
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Feedback from The unit received a rating of 100% positive student feedback on all Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation (SUTE) criteria.
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