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Teaching: "Entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily about start-ups. You can have an entrepreneurial venture which might be mature, it might be young, it might be emerging. The idea is that entrepreneurship is all about the economic activity of new processes, markets or products intending to create value. That value could be either economic or financial, but could also be social, cultural or natural value. The idea is you are using businesses and economic activity to generate change and value"

Dr Richard Seymour, Program Director of Innovation and Enterprise.

"It's not just about the functional skills; the finance, marketing, etc…, and it’s not just the skills, like team work, communication, and leadership. It’s more than that. It’s about your abilities and emancipatory knowledge, your curiousity, passion for excellence, cultural and social awareness…"

Dr Richard Seymour, Program Director of Innovation and Enterprise.

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Business schools have traditionally provided programmes centred on core functional skills such as accounting, marketing, finance or organisational studies. These days it is expected that more than core functional skills are developed. With firms increasingly challenged by global demands, regional competitors and local constraints, they are stretched to mature their existing businesses and at the same time grow their presence in new markets, develop new offerings, or refine their business models.

Firms recognise that creating new businesses, growing young businesses, and turning around mature businesses requires people and teams with rich analytical, entrepreneurial and leadership abilities. Business leaders are expected to be skilled in the science, art and crafts of management.

To meet these complex demands, the Innovation & Enterprise Programme at The University of Sydney Business School focuses on strategy, creativity and entrepreneurship as the key domains to develop appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities. As well as assembling a top team of academics and practitioners to lead the programme, we have considered what and how we teach: Units of study are structured around experiential and problem-based learning with close engagement with business and entrepreneurial ventures.

Over the past 6 years we have worked with scores of entrepreneurs and businesses with students writing business plans, information memoranda and consulting reports for a variety of undertakings in the profit and not-for-profit sectors.

So, whether you would like to focus on a particular business stage (for example, start-up, growth, turnarounds) or a particular context (for example, technology, creative industries or social enterprise), our programme can be structured to excite your interest and challenge you.

You can be involved in the Innovation and Enterprise Program through the following courses:

There are also individual units of study available through:

There are multiple units of study offered in the Innovation & Enterprise Program. To see the individual units, see the following.

Innovation and Enterprise units of study can be completed through the RARE (Remote and Rural Enterprise) Program. Selected RARE students can enrol in either BUSS 6509 Business Project , or IBUS 6015 Innovation and Enterprise Special Project as an intensive six week project or during semester.

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