Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship program is designed to develop and inspire individuals with an interest in starting or assisting innovative ventures that have the potential to make significant impacts on markets, economies and communities.
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers students the knowledge and skills to:
- Assess and implement new ideas
- Create and manage new ventures
- Develop entrepreneurial management practices
- Create the supportive environments that foster and enable innovation and entrepreneurship
- Develop an understanding of the range of profit and not-for-profit opportunities that are available to entrepreneurial people
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About the Program
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship delves into the fascinating world of entrepreneurship and the role innovation plays in creating new ventures – no matter whether it’s for a large corporation, your own business, a not-for-profit, or community organisation.
The program explores such issues as:
What is Entrepreneurship?
- Is it based in Economics, or Psychology, or Social Behaviour?
We use all of these disciplines to learn to act entrepreneurially, it doesn’t always come naturally to most of us!
What is Innovation?
- Is it just new technology?
Sometimes, but new ways of doing business are also innovative. - Do we need creativity to innovate?
We can learn to become more creative in our ideas, problem solving, and approach to life. - What is the difference between creativity and innovation?
We can assess whether new inventions or ideas are innovations. Transformation of ideas and innovations into action is required. Entrepreneurship is all about action.
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Program Aims
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship aims to develop and inspire individuals with interests in innovative ventures that influence markets, economies and communities. Economies around the world rely on entrepreneurship to improve economic and social outcomes. The program is aimed at those who wish to be more effective in their role as a social, economic and technological change agent.
Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship students will often be engaged or want to be engaged in:
- The start-up and growth of new ventures
- Innovation and entrepreneurship within the corporate environment
- The venture capital, banking or informal investment industry
- Government or other policy or regional development agencies or authorities
- Support services to new ventures and the SME sector
- The not-for-profit and community social sectors
Graduates are expected to be involved in positively influencing and altering the market dynamics of the world we live in.
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AACSB Accreditation
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, based in the United States.
Founded in 1916, AACSB is the global accrediting body for business schools that offer programs in business and accounting. AACSB Accreditation is known worldwide as the longest standing, most internationally recognised form of specialised accreditation that an institution and its business programs can earn.
AACSB accreditation is the hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than 5% of the world's business schools.
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Program Structure
In conjunction with a completed Advanced Diploma or 1.5 years of full-time undergraduate study, the Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is comprised of 10 courses (36 units). The following links will take you to Program Finder where you can view the Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship program outline, structure, admission requirements, tuition fees and course outlines:
- Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Adelaide AACSB Accredited
- Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Singapore AACSB Accredited
Duration
The program can be completed in 18 months on a full time equivalent basis, or studied part time with a minimum of one course per semester.
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Admission
A candidate for admission to the program of study for the Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship must have:
- Successfully qualified for an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Advanced Diploma, or
- Completed a minimum of 1.5 years, or equivalent, of full-time undergraduate study (of which no more than 12 months shall be at Level I), or
- Successfully completed a Diploma from a Singapore Polytechnic, or equivalent as accepted by the Faculty
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Teaching Excellence
The ECIC has a core team of experienced faculty who have owned and operated their own businesses and who are also across contemporary entrepreneurship theories, models, and practices. They are practical academics – pracademics!
The lecturers for this program have been selected for their in-depth knowledge and experience in innovation and entrepreneurship to provide students with a balance of academic and practitioner perspectives. Many of our teaching staff are engaged in research in their areas of expertise. Students can expect to receive cutting-edge education.
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Employment opportunities
Graduates may be interested in starting up their own businesses or assisting those who do. Graduates may find employment opportunities in innovative or entrepreneurial positions in a wide range of leadership and support roles within existing enterprises, both large and small, or managing new ventures within large organisations. They may also find rewarding careers in consulting, and government policy development.Some potential career outcomes are:
- Business Analyst/Consultant
- Business Owner/Manager
- Corporate Business Development Manager
- Entrepreneur
- Financial Consultant
- Investment/Business Banker
- Market Researcher
- Not-for-Profit Organisation Manager
- Policy Adviser
- Venture Capital Manager
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Flexible Study
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is offered in Adelaide and in Singapore at the Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre.
Course attendance is compacted into intensive sessions designed to fit around busy work and family schedules. Students typically attend a three-day opening intensive and a three-day closing intensive per course. Additionally students complete assessment items between opening and closing intensives.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contact
- Administrative Enquiries (Adelaide):
Mrs Karen Snook
Senior Administrative Officer
- Academic Enquiries:
Mr Gary Hancock
Academic Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UG)
