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MGMT20142 - Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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 social, environmental and economic sustainability problems. With a focus on action learning and case study analysis, students will develop the ability to identify, assess and exploit entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities to address sustainability challenges. The unit will develop problem-solving skills using critical analysis of real-life local issues, and practices of design thinking, co-creation, social innovation and green entrepreneurship will equip students with the necessary tools to address sustainability challenges by creating innovative solutions for economic and social benefit.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2021

Term 1 - 2022 Profile
Online
Term 1 - 2023 Profile
Online
Term 1 - 2024 Profile
Online

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Group Work 50%
2. Portfolio 15%
3. Practical Assessment 35%

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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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 100.00% response rate.

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.

Source: The unit received a rating of 100% positive student feedback on all Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation (SUTE) criteria.
Feedback
The student feedback about the unit content, unit delivery, unit assessments, and the lecturer's constructive feedback is very positive.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the current learning and teaching philosophy and learning and teaching implementation be maintained and strengthened where possible.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Develop a capacity to define and investigate sustainability challenges, and to identify potential entrepreneurship or innovation opportunities to address sustainability challenges
  2. Use design thinking and collaborative processes to develop innovations that address sustainability challenges
  3. Research, using academic and practical sources, to assess the need for sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation and the complexities of sustainability challenges
  4. Critically analyse and formulate strategies to exploit sustainable entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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7 - Leadership • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
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