Undergraduate Major

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship and Innovation will help you transform ideas into action, whether you want to start your own business or work for a business.

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MJ-EI
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Full Time or Part Time
Selection rank
70
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Overview

Use your creativity, innovation and problem solving skills to work for yourself or others to push through ideas that challenge the status quo.

Explore collaborative problem-solving methodologies, ideation tools and project management skills needed to build social capital and networks as you develop business solutions.

Combining this major with your business degree will allow you to develop soft skills that complement the technical and functional skills of
business.

3 reasons to study Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Murdoch

  1. Connect, collaborate and create with local businesses and industry members
  2. Create a business idea, develop it and have the chance to launch it in your final year.
  3. Utilise innovative teaching approaches – including Design Thinking, Lean Start-Up and the Delft Design Methodology - to build entrepreneurial/ professional capabilities.

What you’ll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. Here are some of the things you’ll learn:

  • Understanding innovation, how it develops and how it can be managed.
  • Problem-solving methodologies to find solutions for business and societal challenges.
  • Project management skills.
  • Effective human capital and social networks.
  • How to influence the process of building competitive advantage.
  • Entrepreneurial finance, including understanding investors, various forms of finance from traditional and non-traditional sources and expectations of investors.

Your future career

Graduating with a Bachelor of Business in Entrepreneurship and Innovation opens up many career opportunities. You could work for yourself or work within any industry or sector. Your future career options could include:

  • Entrepreneur/Business Owner
  • Work in a Start-Up
  • Intrapreneur (you could be a manager within a company who promotes corporate changes)
  • Business Consultant
  • Business Analyst or Manager
  • Social Enterprise Consultant

For more details about this course, please download our information pack. 

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Total credit points: 24

Unit code Unit name Credit points
Major24 credit points
Required Units24 credit points
BUS221Entrepreneurial Strategy6
BUS354Leading Emerging Futures3
BUS363Scaling Agile Projects3
BUS366Stand and Deliver: The Compelling Entrepreneur3
BUS380Entrepreneurial Finance3
BUS109The Innovator's Mindset3
BUS220Foundations of Entrepreneurship3
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Entry requirements

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English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai  and Singapore campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

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Whether you’re a high achiever or have experienced hardship, we offer a wide range of scholarships and awards to students from all walks of life. Explore our scholarships to find the ones you could be eligible for as a new Murdoch student as well as what's available throughout your degree.

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How much will it cost?

Instead of paying an overall course fee, you pay for the individual units you enrol in. The total course cost will vary depending on the units you choose.

Following your successful application, you’ll receive a Letter of Offer which will contain specific course and fee information.

If you are applying for an undergraduate course, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place. Postgraduate programs are full fee paying, unless indicated otherwise in your Letter of Offer.

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