INNOVENT 308 : Advanced Entrepreneurship

Business and Economics

2022 Semester Two (1225) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Extends entrepreneurial knowledge and applies advanced skills in the context of a student defined project focused on an innovative opportunity with international potential. Develops an integrated understanding of the complex interactions within a successful interdisciplinary team and the requirements for engaging with experts relevant to the opportunity.

Course Overview

Building upon foundations developed in pre-requisite courses, Advanced Entrepreneurship provides a context and reinforces knowledge and skills including customer empathy, needs assessment, prototyping, value propositions, market assessment, business models and pitching to identify, develop and present an innovative entrepreneurial opportunity that could be successfully executed internationally.   Students work individually and in groups to consider innovative solutions and identify markets and situations that could be successful.  The course embraces a range of innovative solutions, including social enterprise, technology, consumer goods and new models or approaches to societal and commercial challenges.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: INNOVENT 204 Restriction: INNOVENT 303

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 1: Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2: Critical Thinking
Capability 3: Solution Seeking
Capability 4: Communication and Engagement
Capability 5: Independence and Integrity
Capability 6: Social and Environmental Responsibilities
Graduate Profile: Bachelor of Commerce

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Identify and evaluate an opportunity of sufficient scale and magnitude to appeal to or be compelling to multiple markets, including those beyond New Zealand. (Capability 2, 3, 5.1 and 6)
  2. Apply discipline and pre-requisite course knowledge to develop an understanding of international market size and characteristics. (Capability 1, 2, 3 and 5.1)
  3. Work collaboratively to analyse, develop and create a viable business plan for an innovate, scalable entrepreneurial opportunity. (Capability 3, 4.2, 4.3 and 5.2)
  4. Work collaboratively to create, develop and present a scalable, international entrepreneurial opportunity and the associated business case. (Capability 3, 4.1 and 4.3)
  5. Create prototypes, models, wireframes, and specifications for a product or service offering to suppoort Customer Discovery process. (Capability 3, 4.3 and 5.1)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Opportunity Assessment & Selection 25% Individual Coursework
Presentation 20% Group Coursework
Reports 40% Group & Individual Coursework
Prototype Development 15% Group & Individual Coursework
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4 5
Opportunity Assessment & Selection
Presentation
Reports
Prototype Development

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect about 10 hours of lectures, 2 hours of guest speakers, 20 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 80 hours of work on assignments and presentations.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is strongly advised at scheduled activities, including lectures and tutorials/workshops to complete the components of the course.
Lectures will be available as recordings. Other learning activities, including workshops/tutorials will not be available as recordings.
The course may include live online events, including group discussions and tutorials.

The activities for this course are scheduled as a one hour lecture and two-hour workshop weekly.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Course content will be provided online through Canvas, the University’s learning management system, Talis, and a required text.  Content includes resources, readings, videos, and workbooks necessary to understand key concepts and complete required assignments.    Required text is the popular and approachable Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption, we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and course assessment continues to meet the principles of the University’s assessment policy. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator/director, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the university website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course students may be asked to submit coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. In exceptional circumstances changes to elements of this course may be necessary at short notice. Students enrolled in this course will be informed of any such changes and the reasons for them, as soon as possible, through Canvas.

Published on 04/11/2021 09:27 p.m.