Program Director Contact Details: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Name: Dr Wendy Lindsay
Email: wendy.lindsay@adelaide.edu.au

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Teaching Staff
Name: Dr. Manjula Dissanayake
email: manjula.dissanayake@adelaide.edu.au

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Develop independent cognitive skills to critically analyse and synthesise contextual data to evaluate opportunities
2. Demonstrate effective communication skills in a variety of business and professional contexts to understand how to apply facets of entrepreneurship in your career
3. Apply concepts and tools associated with identifying, discovering and creating entrepreneurial opportunities
4. Apply knowledge of innovation (including business model innovation) to source the required resources for an entrepreneurial opportunity
5. Apply principles of teamwork in different contexts to establish partnerships to exploit opportunities
6. Develop a personal agenda to integrate entrepreneurship and innovation into your career

No textbook required

The most important websites for research and guidance are:
www.business.gov.au
www.ato.gov.au
www.abr.gov.au
www.cbs.sa.gov.au
http://www.statedevelopment.sa.gov.au/industry/smallbusiness
www.ipaustralia.gov.au
www.fairwork.gov.au
www.accc.gov.au

Library Resources
The University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library provides a range of learning resources including texts, journals, periodicals, magazines, and access to online databases and information services. It also offers a virtual library which is accessible via the University’s website. Access to the Library's electronic resources.

MyUni is the University of Adelaide's online learning environment. It is used to support traditional face-to-face lectures, tutorials and workshops at the University. MyUni provides access to various features including announcements, course materials, discussion boards and assessments for each online course of study.

This course is very focused on the regulatory framework for business startups in Australia. However the international background of many of the class members lends it self to expanding our collective knowledge about setting up a business in other parts of the world. The intensive mode of the classes enables workshopping of key concepts in small groups within the class time and comparison between systems of regulation. Each topic will commence with an overview by the facilitator, and the PowerPoint topic summaries will be available prior to the class.

Students are provided with prompts, cases and activity materials prior to the class time through the MyUni site. The Powerpoint slides will suggest interactive learning activities during the class sessions, and for those students not able to be in attendance.

Students will require internet searching capacity in the class to source and verify information required to complete the class workshop activities. 

Please bring laptops, or tablets, or even smart phones with chargers and power cords. You will need them!

It is expected that students will attend each of the 6 full days of the course. It is expected that students will review materials provided online each evening prior to the class to prepare for the session, and also take their turns, as directed, to undertake information search activities for the benefit of the rest of the class.

There are two assignments for students to undertake in their own time. On the last afternoon of the courses, an open book/internet access multiple choice quiz (assignment 3) will be administered for which students will require their own device and internet access.

As a guide, a 3 unit course comprises a total of 156 hours work (this includes face-to-face contact, any online components, and self directed study).

On each day, students will engage with workshop activity in the class which will follow active listening in the seminar which overviews the topics. Activities are designed to underpin the knowledge needed to successfully complete the assessment tasks; which will require responses to case studies and demonstrating their knowledge of how to operationalize a new venture.

Activities will require internet searches using students’ own devices. This is a draft schedule and session dates are a guide only. The timetable may be changed during the course delivery if necessary.

Learning Activities Summary

Intensive			Readings
Day 1	• Operating business models and the small business life cycle • Business registration	• Presentation + Q&A • Small group activity describing and analysing business models • Analysis and critique of information searching • Practice application for registration • Case study analysis	http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas/bmc www.abr.gov.au
Day 2	• Review of business structures • Licences, codes, permits and insurances	• Presentation + Q&A • Small group activity • Information searching	www.business.gov.au https://ablis.business.gov.au www.cbs.sa.gov.au www.safework.sa.gov.au
Day 3	• Finances • Financing • Banking • Back office systems, polices and procedures	• Presentation + Q&A • Small group activity applying finance concepts to business model • Analysis and critique of Information searching • Guest speaker	www.ato.gov.au http://www.statedevelopment.sa.gov.au/industry/smallbusiness http://www.business.gov.au/business-topics/tax-finance-insurance/business-finances/Pages/crowdfunding.aspx
Day 4	• Leasing and other contracts • Intellectual property	• Presentation + Q&A • Practical application of concepts in class • Information searching • Practice application for trademark • Guest speaker	https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/housing-property-and-land/housing/contacts/consumer-and-business-services-contacts www.ipaustralia.gov.au
Day 5	• Employing people • Paying people • Workplace health & safety	• Presentation + Q&A • Practical application of concepts in class • Set up a employee record • Interacting with animation about work health	www.fairwork.gov.au
Day 6	• Fair trading • Scams • Establishing KPIs and milestones	• Presentation + Q&A • Information searches • Analysis of recent cases of breaches of fair trading • Plenary session around establishing a business	www.accc.gov.au www.business.gov.au www.scamwatch.gov.au/

An overview of the course assessment appears in the following Table. Details appear in the following section:

#	Assessment	Length	Weighting	Learning Outcomes
1	Individual report	1500 words	30%	1, 2, 6
2	Group assignment	4000 words	40%	2, 3, 4, 5
3	Quiz	1 hour	20%	3, 4
4	Participation		10%	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
	Total		100%

Students should attend all classes in order to pass the course. There is considerable experiential learning in workshops during the intensive classes that build your knowledge and thus enable you to be successful in this course.

Course results are subject to moderation by the ECIC Board of Examiners

Assessment 1: Individual Report
Weighting: 30%
Task: Develop your innovation and entrepreneurship agenda

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Assessment 2: Group Assignment 

All text based assignments must be submitted via MyUni.
Please refer to step by step instructions: MyUni Learning Centre

There are a few points to note about the submission of assignments:

• Assignment Submission:  Assignments should not be emailed to the instructor; they must be lodged via the MyUni Course site (unless specified to do both). Note that assignments may be processed via TURNITIN, which is an online plagiarism prevention tool.
• Cover Sheet:  Please include in the assignment a completed University of Adelaide Assessment Cover Sheet providing details of yourself and your team members (if applicable), your assignment, the course, date submitted, etc. as well as the declaration signed by you that this is your (your team’s) work.  Note that the declaration on any electronically submitted assignment will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed declaration.
• Backup Copy of Assignments:  You are advised to keep a copy of your assignments in case the submitted copy goes missing.  Please ensure that all assignment pages are numbered. If your assignment contains confidential information, you should discuss any concerns with the Course Lecturer prior to submission.
• Extensions of Time:  An application for Assessment Extension should be made well before the due date of the assignment to the Course Lecturer.  Normally, extensions will only be granted for a maximum of two weeks from the original assignment submission date.  Extensions will only be granted in cases of genuine medical, compassionate or extenuating circumstances.
• Failure to submit: Failure to submit an assignment on time or by the agreed extension deadline may result in penalties and may incur a fail grade.  Note that a late penalty of 5% of the total available marks for that assessment item will be incurred each day an assignment is handed in late (Unless otherwise stated in 'Assessment Related Requirements' or 'Assessment Detail' above). Assignments handed in after 14 days from the due submission date will fail even if a 100% mark is granted for the work.

Resubmission & Remarking
Resubmission of an assignment for remarking after reworking it to obtain a better mark will not normally be accepted.  Approval for resubmission will only be granted on medical or compassionate grounds.

All text based assignments must be submitted via MyUni.
Please refer to step by step instructions: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/tutorials/files/AssignmentStudentSubmission.pdf

There are a few points to note about the submission of assignments:

• Assignment Submission:  Assignments should not be emailed to the instructor; they must be lodged via the MyUni Course site (unless specified to do both). Note that assignments may be processed via TURNITIN, which is an online plagiarism prevention tool.
• Cover Sheet:  Please submit, separate to your assignment, the completed University of Adelaide Assessment Cover Sheet providing details of yourself and your team members (if applicable), your assignment, the course, date submitted, etc. as well as the declaration signed by you that this is your (your team’s) work.  Note that the declaration on any electronically submitted assignment will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed declaration.
• Backup Copy of Assignments:  You are advised to keep a copy of your assignments in case the submitted copy goes missing.  Please ensure that all assignment pages are numbered. If your assignment contains confidential information, you should discuss any concerns with the Course Lecturer prior to submission.
• Extensions of Time:  Any request for an extension of time for the submission of an assignment should be made well before the due date of the assignment to the Course Lecturer.  Normally, extensions will only be granted for a maximum of two weeks from the original assignment submission date.  Extensions will only be granted in cases of genuine extenuating circumstances and proof, such as a doctor’s certificate, may be required.
• Failure to submit: Failure to submit an assignment on time or by the agreed extension deadline may result in penalties and may incur a fail grade.  Note that a late penalty of 5% of the total available marks for that assessment item will be incurred each day an assignment is handed in late (Unless otherwise stated in 'Assessment Related Requirements' or 'Assessment Detail' above).  Assignments handed in after 14 days from the due submission date will fail even if a 100% mark is granted for the work.

Resubmission & Remarking
Resubmission of an assignment for remarking after reworking it to obtain a better mark will not normally be accepted.  Approval for resubmission will only be granted on medical or compassionate grounds.