309461 (v.1) Enterprise Skills for SET 501

Area:

Faculty of Science and Computing

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

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Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Develops the core concepts of creativity, innovation and risk evaluation as the cornerstones of enterprise as introduced in preceding units. Creativity is developed in terms of thinking skills, knowledge and motivation. Incremental and radical innovations are discussed. Risk within a systems framework is incorporated into an entrepreneurial model which also emphasises uncertainty. The techniques developed include creative thinking, critical thinking, dialectic argumentation, deconstruction and discovery through analogy. Ba (a Japanese management concept) is introduced as a technique for transforming tacit knowledge into explicit entrepreneurial knowledge for action. The skills are situated in the enterprise environment of legal frameworks, marketing, finances and operations. The unit involves case studies, simulations and role play. Innovation and creativity are focused on the SET area and the human/intuition side emphasised.

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Field of Education:

080301 Business Management

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External