Entrepreneurs and investors see the world for what it could be. In an ever-changing landscape, they take the risks to start up new businesses and social ventures.
Successful entrepreneurs are savvy, resilient and well-connected. At the University of Adelaide, we invest in your potential.
What will you do?
Our Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship gives you knowledge, access to networks and a growth mindset for success. You will:
- hone your ability to identify, assess and develop opportunities
- understand financial planning and management
- learn the business modelling behind innovations' commercialisation
- start your own venture in the University’s ThincLab Incubator
- get hands-on help from experienced mentors and professionals.
There are also unique opportunities for study in linked ThincLab incubators in Singapore and France. In these locations you can:
- apply international perspectives and strategies to your ventures
- tap into supported international learning
- access different cultures, networks and opportunities.
Career Readiness
Graduates are well equipped to start their own businesses or advise those who do. They may find employment opportunities in innovative or entrepreneurial positions in a wide range of leadership and support roles, including:
- within existing enterprises, large and small
- managing new ventures within large organisations.
Potential careers
Business Consultant, Commercialisation Manager, Business Development Manager, Business Management, CEO, Entrepreneur, General Manager, Government or Corporate Policy Adviser, Innovation Manager, Sole Trader.
Degree Structure:
The Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship program is a 72 unit (3-year full-time equivalent) program. Applicants who hold an AQF Diploma receive advanced standing to the value of 12 units.
A number of courses are conducted in intensive mode. This allows flexibility for those with work and family schedules. Students attend a three-day opening intensive and a three-day closing intensive per course. Between the intensive sessions, students conduct projects designed to build their research skills.
Students complete a project at the end of their degree providing an opportunity to work on personal interests of the student. For example, past students have completed projects as diverse as developing and launching a business plan through to writing an academic research paper.
Areas of Specialisation
As Entrepreneurship and Innovation is a broad subject area that can be applied across many different industries and occupations, students apply their own chosen field of interest to assignments and class discussions. They can also select electives in their area of interest.