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August 2007 Issue
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Graduate Entrepreneurial Program

Dare to be different
Are you considering your career options for 2008 and beyond?

Do you have a genuine desire to develop the highly regarded skills of Idea/Opportunity Assessment, Innovative Thinking, Business Enterprise and Entrepreneurship around an idea for your own business venture?

Are you:

  • A University or TAFE graduate
  • A final year, honours or postgraduate student
  • A PhD or Masters candidate at the mid-point or approaching the completion of your candidature?

If so, you are invited to prepare yourself for an Entrepreneurial Career through the University of Adelaide's Graduate Entrepreneurial Program and receive up to $30,000 support!

Participants in the suite of programs are offered the opportunity to develop a business idea as a core project within a Master of Entrepreneurship/Master of Science and Technology Commercialisation over a 2 year period. Participants receive 12 month tax free scholarship support, business/academic mentoring and office accommodation within a business incubator facility at Adelaide University Research Park at Thebarton.

Special Events:
1/2 - day Workshop 'How To Turn A Great Idea Into An Even Greater Application!'

Thursday 23 August at Thebarton Campus

Participants will be given a basic understanding of how to assess and develop ideas and opportunities, together with a basic understanding of the business creation process. Entrepreneurs from the Program will discuss their business creation experiences, and information will be provided about the application process.

Funded by the University of Adelaide's Office of Industry Liaison in association with the Education Centre for Innovation & Commercialisation.

Book a place now on (08) 8303 4468

For further information contact Megan Llewellyn
Phone: (08) 8303 4159
Email: megan.llewellyn@adelaide.edu.au
Web: www.adelaide.edu.au/OIL/business/grad_ent/

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