Undergraduate LTU-BUS301-2022
Business Entrepreneurship
Start design thinking and use lean-start up techniques as you put together a presentation about a business venture. Explore the relationship between social and corporate entrepreneurship. Work in teams to investigate issues that face businesses.
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Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 28 Nov 2022
QS RANKING 2022
21
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
13
Subject details
Upon the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Identify a business venture by analysing the environment and presenting alternative futures, to establish good social and financial outcomes;
- Critically analyse entrepreneurship validation tools by investigating opportunities to extend a business and adapt to achieve social and financial outcomes;
- Present a convincing and novel identification of business problems from a company perspective and to evaluate future entrepreneurial ideas;
- Engage with group members to offer diverse perspectives about a business and to reflect on the social, environmental and current issues facing a business;
- Formulate entrepreneurship validation tools including values, norms and behaviours of an innovative or entrepreneurial idea;
- Design and deliver a group presentation about an entrepreneurial business venture;
- Critically analyse a business venture by applying and monitoring the creative and innovative ideas that can be applied given the complex and dynamic global business environment;
- Participate in a team to analyse and present a case study about an entrepreneurial business;
- Develop and write entrepreneurship validation tools using both professional and academic references.
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- Entrepreneurial Individual Mindset
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- Opportunity & The Creative Pursuit of Innovative Ideas
- Assessment & Commercialism of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- Design Thinking & Lean Startup
- Business Model
- Business Plan
- Entrepreneurial Marketing
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- HR, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Intellectual Properties and Legal Considerations
Others
Student must have completed 60 credit points (4 subjects) in the degree.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - This subject is offered via Open Universities Australia, late enrolments are generally not permitted past the published close of application date for the study period. For students not enrolled in the prerequisite courses, you may be able to undertake these subjects with approval of your home course coordinator, please contact ASK La Trobe for assistance. Students who successfully complete two from the four open enrolment subjects (HBS101, DTN101, CHM101, PHE102) may apply under the Academic Eligibility category for admission to the restricted Bachelor of Food and Nutrition. You must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Food and Nutrition to be eligible to enrol in all other non-open access subjects offered in the degree.
This subject offers you the opportunity to use entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to start businesses or resolve business challenges. The subject attracts students from a range of fields, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to the research, analysis and problem-solving aspects of the challenge. You will be required to apply entrepreneurship validation tools such as design thinking, lean start-up and business model design aimed at creating sustainable value through the provision of a particular product or service to meet an identified market opportunity. The aim of these projects is to enhance the well-being of your community or address a social, health, economic or environmental problem. The subject is designed to provide you with the opportunity to enhance, demonstrate and document entrepreneurial work-ready skills appropriate to your chosen career path.
- Business Model and Plan (2500 words) (40%)
- Business Venture assignment (1500 words) (30%)
- Presentation (15 minutes, 4 students) (1500 words equivalent) (30%)
Current study term: 29 May 22 to 28 Aug 22
Textbook information is pending.
Next study term: 27 Nov 22 to 26 Feb 23
Textbook information is pending.