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

Students not enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce or related combined Bachelor of Commerce degrees can complete either a Innovation and Entrepreneurship major or minor as a Table S (shared pool) option for their degree.

Commerce students can only complete a Innovation and Entrepreneurship major or minor as a Table A option for their degree.

Pathways through the major and minor

The requirements for a major/minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship are spread out over three years of the degree (possibly four years if students are completing a combined Bachelor of Advanced Studies degree).

(i) Innovation and Entrepreneurship major

To achieve a major in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, students must complete 48 credit points comprising:

• 12 credit points of 1000-level core units of study;
• 6 credit points of 2000-level core units of study;
• 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units of study;
• 6 credit points of 3000-level core units of study; and
• 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units of study.

A sample pathway for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major (over three years of a degree) is listed below.

Note: All units listed are worth 6 credit points unless otherwise indicated.

Please Note. This sample progression is meant as an example only. Depending on unit prerequisites, students may be able to complete these units in a different sequence to that displayed in the following table.

** Capstone unit for the major – completed in the final semester of study for that major. This unit of study must be completed at the University of Sydney Business School.

For details of the core and selective units of study required for the major or minor please refer to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship section of the unit of study table, Table S, in this handbook.

(ii) Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor

To achieve a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, students must complete 36 credit points comprising:

• 12 credit points of 1000-level core units of study;
• 6 credit points of 2000-level core units of study;
• 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units of study; and
• 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units of study.

A sample pathway for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor (over three years of a degree) is listed below.

Note: All units listed are worth 6 credit points unless otherwise indicated.

Please Note. This sample progression is meant as an example only. Depending on unit prerequisites, students may be able to complete these units in a different sequence to that displayed in the following table.

For details of the core and selective units of study required for the major or minor please refer to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship section of the unit of study table, Table S, in this handbook.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major students will be able to:

Further information

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