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Business Entrepreneurship
Undergraduate | LTU-BUS301 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
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.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Business Entrepreneurship
About this subject
Upon the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Analyse an entrepreneur and his/her business venture, critically analyse the opportunity recognition and idea development processes, entrepreneurial traits, evaluating the problems or challenges, and propose suggestions for this entrepreneur and the venture;
- Participate in a team to identify business opportunities, apply entrepreneurship validation tools to validate your business ideas, and from that to employ relevant strategies to develop a startup venture.
- Develop a new business idea, evaluate the venture’s feasibility, and design a detailed Business Model for your proposed venture.
- 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
This subject offers you the opportunity to use your disciplinary knowledge and skills to resolve business challenges, by researching, analysing and problem-solving aspects of the challenges. In teams, you will be required to apply entrepreneurship validation tools and relevant knowledge to identify and develop a business opportunity, and individually, you will validate and propose a new business idea, and design the corresponding business model. The topics covered and assessment tasks provide you with the necessary entrepreneurial skills and tools to prepare for your future career.
- Business Model and Plan (2500 words) (40%)
- Business Venture assignment (1500 words) (30%)
- Presentation (15 minutes, 4 students) (1500 words equivalent) (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- LAT-HUN-DEG-2020 - Bachelor of Food and Nutrition
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. La Trobe University students can undertake this subject as part of a cross institutional enrolment under certain circumstances, and must seek approval from the Bachelor of Food and Nutrition course coordinator for eligibility. Due to the nature of the subject content and online delivery, enrolments are generally not permitted past the published OUA enrolment date for the study period.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Undergraduate
LAT-HUN-DEG