MGN428 Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets
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| Unit code: | MGN428 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | GSN410, GSZ410 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,416 |
| International unit fee | $4,944 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | MGN428 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Anti-requisite: | GSN410, GSZ410 |
| Coordinator: | Luca Casali | luca.casali@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces the processes of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, while guiding students along the pathway to discovering their entrepreneurial-selves as they gain hands-on experience with the process. The unit is designed for a broad audience, including managers, human resource managers, business people, professionals in IT, industrial design and engineering graduates, advisors to business start-ups, and those wanting to pursue opportunities for new and existing ventures. In this unit you will develop entrepreneurial thinking and mindset, being able to explore and exploit recognised opportunities. The unit will cover fundamental elements of new venture creation, such as opportunity discovery, feasibility assessment, and social impact through reflective practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand your own entrepreneurial skills and mindset through self-discovery and your experiences in the unit. [TS 4.1]Relates to: PG Business Capabilities: TS (4.1)
- Understand the theoretical foundations of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. [KS 1.1, HO 2.2, SE 5.2]
- Develop a business model, including a value proposition, target customers, partners, channels, operations, revenue streams and cost structures, which define a new venture that aims to deliver social impact. [KS 1.2, SE 5.2]
- Demonstrate verbal communication skills in describing the entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture. [PC 3.2, TS 4.1, 4.2]
Content
- Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial mindset, passion, and self-discovery
- Opportunity discovery, assessment, feasibility, and exploitation
- Diffusion of Innovation theory
- Early adopters
- Value propositions and social enterprise
- Product-market fit
- Risk assessment
- The elevator pitch
- Entrepreneurial passion
- Entrepreneurial resilience
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
The content and assessment in this unit are aligned to a selection of the following set of QUT Business Capabilities, also known as Assurance of Learning Goals (AoLs). Developing these capabilities will assist you to meet the desired graduate outcomes set at QUT and equip you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in your chosen career.
Knowledge & Technical Skills (KS)
1.1 Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
1.2 Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HO)
2.1 Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
2.2 Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Professional Communication (PC)
3.1 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in written forms and using media appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
3.2 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Teamwork & Self (TS)
4.1 Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
4.2 Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Social, Ethical & Global Understanding (SE)
5.1 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of ethical and legal principles and practices of business in critically analysing and effectively responding to complex business issues.
5.2 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Learning Approaches
This unit utilises class discussion of key concepts, inside class activities, as well as outside class activities. The teaching methods for this unit utilise the integration of theoretical, case study, applied and practical approaches. Students are encouraged in their fieldwork to research a business idea and develop a business model that can deliver social impact. The unit employs self-reflection techniques to guide students in their learning of their entrepreneurial skills, as they engage with start-up issues from the entrepreneur's perspective.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester which may include:
- Informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- Formal: in writing, such as checklists (e.g. criteria sheets), written commentary
- Direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- Indirect: to the whole class
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit aims to support your achievement of the learning objectives for both Discipline Knowledge and Other Graduate Capabilities. Assessment has been designed in order to allow you to:
- Receive feedback on your learning as you progress toward the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes (formative assessment); and
- Demonstrate your learning in order to achieve a final grade (summative assessment).
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online quiz
You will undertake an examination to test your knowledge of the critical components of the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial process, i.e. the ‘toolbox’, covered in the unit.
Formative or Summative: Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.1)
Assessment: Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
You are required to work in a team of 3-4 members in developing a new entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture concept during the semester, designed with a social impact, and then delivering a 3-4 minute elevator pitch to your peers and unit coordinator, of the new venture concept you have developed (Marks incorporate a short individual reflection on team work).
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.2), HO (2.2), PC (3.2), TS (4.2), SE (5.2).
Assessment: Self-Reflection Report
Throughout the unit you are required to reflect upon your entrepreneurial self and your entrepreneurial mindset and document these reflections in a report. Your report will comprise three components. First, you will reflect on a personality test around your entrepreneurial mindset and your social impact awareness taken at the beginning of the unit. Second, you will identify and interview an entrepreneur or intrapreneur and reflect upon this conversation. Third, you will reflect on a personality test to be taken at the end of the unit, and consideration of any changes in your entrepreneurial mindset throughout the unit. And fourth, reflect on the panel discussion and guest lectures throughout the semester. This final assessment will help you understand your journey in developing entrepreneurial skills and mindset.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): TS (4.1), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Hisrich R.D., Peters, M.P., and Shepherd, D.A., (2013) Entrepreneurship; 9th ed; McGraw Hill New York NY.
Additional references can also be found at the unit's Canvas site.
Ries, E. (2011) The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses; Crown Business USA
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with lectures or tutorials in this unit.
You should, however, familiarise yourself with evacuation procedures operating in the buildings in which you attend classes and take the time to view the Emergency video http://www.fmd.qut.edu.au/security/dvd/Evacuation_282k.wmv.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
HO (2.2): Independent Judgement and Decision-Making
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
KS (1.1): Discipline and Professional Practice Knowledge
Relates to: ULO2, Online quiz
KS (1.2): Technical, Technological and Research Skills
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
PC (3.2): Professional Communication (Oral)
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
SE (5.2): Global Social Responsibility
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.1): Self-Reflection and Accountability
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.2): Teamwork Knowledge and Skills
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.BS11 Master of Business
- Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Online quiz - Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report - Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Self-Reflection Report - Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Online
| Unit code: | MGN428 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Anti-requisite: | GSN410, GSZ410 |
Overview
This unit introduces the processes of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, while guiding students along the pathway to discovering their entrepreneurial-selves as they gain hands-on experience with the process. The unit is designed for a broad audience, including managers, human resource managers, business people, professionals in IT, industrial design and engineering graduates, advisors to business start-ups, and those wanting to pursue opportunities for new and existing ventures. In this unit you will develop entrepreneurial thinking and mindset, being able to explore and exploit recognised opportunities. The unit will cover fundamental elements of new venture creation, such as opportunity discovery, feasibility assessment, and social impact through reflective practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand your own entrepreneurial skills and mindset through self-discovery and your experiences in the unit. [TS 4.1]Relates to: PG Business Capabilities: TS (4.1)
- Understand the theoretical foundations of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. [KS 1.1, HO 2.2, SE 5.2]
- Develop a business model, including a value proposition, target customers, partners, channels, operations, revenue streams and cost structures, which define a new venture that aims to deliver social impact. [KS 1.2, SE 5.2]
- Demonstrate verbal communication skills in describing the entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture. [PC 3.2, TS 4.1, 4.2]
Content
- Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial mindset, passion, and self-discovery
- Opportunity discovery, assessment, feasibility, and exploitation
- Diffusion of Innovation theory
- Early adopters
- Value propositions and social enterprise
- Product-market fit
- Risk assessment
- The elevator pitch
- Entrepreneurial passion
- Entrepreneurial resilience
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
The content and assessment in this unit are aligned to a selection of the following set of QUT Business Capabilities, also known as Assurance of Learning Goals (AoLs). Developing these capabilities will assist you to meet the desired graduate outcomes set at QUT and equip you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in your chosen career.
Knowledge & Technical Skills (KS)
1.1 Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
1.2 Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HO)
2.1 Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
2.2 Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Professional Communication (PC)
3.1 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in written forms and using media appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
3.2 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Teamwork & Self (TS)
4.1 Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
4.2 Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Social, Ethical & Global Understanding (SE)
5.1 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of ethical and legal principles and practices of business in critically analysing and effectively responding to complex business issues.
5.2 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Learning Approaches
This unit utilises class discussion of key concepts, inside class activities, as well as outside class activities. The teaching methods for this unit utilise the integration of theoretical, case study, applied and practical approaches. Students are encouraged in their fieldwork to research a business idea and develop a business model that can deliver social impact. The unit employs self-reflection techniques to guide students in their learning of their entrepreneurial skills, as they engage with start-up issues from the entrepreneur's perspective.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester which may include:
- Informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- Formal: in writing, such as checklists (e.g. criteria sheets), written commentary
- Direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- Indirect: to the whole class
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit aims to support your achievement of the learning objectives for both Discipline Knowledge and Other Graduate Capabilities. Assessment has been designed in order to allow you to:
- Receive feedback on your learning as you progress toward the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes (formative assessment); and
- Demonstrate your learning in order to achieve a final grade (summative assessment).
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online quiz
You will undertake an examination to test your knowledge of the critical components of the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial process, i.e. the ‘toolbox’, covered in the unit.
Formative or Summative: Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.1)
Assessment: Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
You are required to work in a team of 3-4 members in developing a new entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture concept during the semester, designed with a social impact, and then delivering a 3-4 minute elevator pitch to your peers and unit coordinator, of the new venture concept you have developed (Marks incorporate a short individual reflection on team work).
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.2), HO (2.2), PC (3.2), TS (4.2), SE (5.2).
Assessment: Self-Reflection Report
Throughout the unit you are required to reflect upon your entrepreneurial self and your entrepreneurial mindset and document these reflections in a report. Your report will comprise three components. First, you will reflect on a personality test around your entrepreneurial mindset and your social impact awareness taken at the beginning of the unit. Second, you will identify and interview an entrepreneur or intrapreneur and reflect upon this conversation. Third, you will reflect on a personality test to be taken at the end of the unit, and consideration of any changes in your entrepreneurial mindset throughout the unit. And fourth, reflect on the panel discussion and guest lectures throughout the semester. This final assessment will help you understand your journey in developing entrepreneurial skills and mindset.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): TS (4.1), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Hisrich R.D., Peters, M.P., and Shepherd, D.A., (2013) Entrepreneurship; 9th ed; McGraw Hill New York NY.
Additional references can also be found at the unit's Canvas site.
Ries, E. (2011) The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses; Crown Business USA
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with lectures or tutorials in this unit.
You should, however, familiarise yourself with evacuation procedures operating in the buildings in which you attend classes and take the time to view the Emergency video http://www.fmd.qut.edu.au/security/dvd/Evacuation_282k.wmv.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
HO (2.2): Independent Judgement and Decision-Making
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
KS (1.1): Discipline and Professional Practice Knowledge
Relates to: ULO2, Online quiz
KS (1.2): Technical, Technological and Research Skills
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
PC (3.2): Professional Communication (Oral)
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
SE (5.2): Global Social Responsibility
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.1): Self-Reflection and Accountability
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.2): Teamwork Knowledge and Skills
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.BS11 Master of Business
- Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Online quiz - Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report - Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Self-Reflection Report - Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | MGN428 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Anti-requisite: | GSN410, GSZ410 |
| Coordinator: | Luca Casali | luca.casali@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces the processes of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, while guiding students along the pathway to discovering their entrepreneurial-selves as they gain hands-on experience with the process. The unit is designed for a broad audience, including managers, human resource managers, business people, professionals in IT, industrial design and engineering graduates, advisors to business start-ups, and those wanting to pursue opportunities for new and existing ventures. In this unit you will develop entrepreneurial thinking and mindset, being able to explore and exploit recognised opportunities. The unit will cover fundamental elements of new venture creation, such as opportunity discovery, feasibility assessment, and social impact through reflective practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand your own entrepreneurial skills and mindset through self-discovery and your experiences in the unit. [TS 4.1]Relates to: PG Business Capabilities: TS (4.1)
- Understand the theoretical foundations of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. [KS 1.1, HO 2.2, SE 5.2]
- Develop a business model, including a value proposition, target customers, partners, channels, operations, revenue streams and cost structures, which define a new venture that aims to deliver social impact. [KS 1.2, SE 5.2]
- Demonstrate verbal communication skills in describing the entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture. [PC 3.2, TS 4.1, 4.2]
Content
- Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial mindset, passion, and self-discovery
- Opportunity discovery, assessment, feasibility, and exploitation
- Diffusion of Innovation theory
- Early adopters
- Value propositions and social enterprise
- Product-market fit
- Risk assessment
- The elevator pitch
- Entrepreneurial passion
- Entrepreneurial resilience
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
The content and assessment in this unit are aligned to a selection of the following set of QUT Business Capabilities, also known as Assurance of Learning Goals (AoLs). Developing these capabilities will assist you to meet the desired graduate outcomes set at QUT and equip you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in your chosen career.
Knowledge & Technical Skills (KS)
1.1 Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
1.2 Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HO)
2.1 Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
2.2 Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Professional Communication (PC)
3.1 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in written forms and using media appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
3.2 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Teamwork & Self (TS)
4.1 Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
4.2 Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Social, Ethical & Global Understanding (SE)
5.1 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of ethical and legal principles and practices of business in critically analysing and effectively responding to complex business issues.
5.2 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Learning Approaches
This unit utilises class discussion of key concepts, inside class activities, as well as outside class activities. The teaching methods for this unit utilise the integration of theoretical, case study, applied and practical approaches. Students are encouraged in their fieldwork to research a business idea and develop a business model that can deliver social impact. The unit employs self-reflection techniques to guide students in their learning of their entrepreneurial skills, as they engage with start-up issues from the entrepreneur's perspective.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester which may include:
- Informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- Formal: in writing, such as checklists (e.g. criteria sheets), written commentary
- Direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- Indirect: to the whole class
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit aims to support your achievement of the learning objectives for both Discipline Knowledge and Other Graduate Capabilities. Assessment has been designed in order to allow you to:
- Receive feedback on your learning as you progress toward the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes (formative assessment); and
- Demonstrate your learning in order to achieve a final grade (summative assessment).
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online quiz
You will undertake an examination to test your knowledge of the critical components of the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial process, i.e. the ‘toolbox’, covered in the unit.
Formative or Summative: Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.1)
Assessment: Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
You are required to work in a team of 3-4 members in developing a new entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture concept during the semester, designed with a social impact, and then delivering a 3-4 minute elevator pitch to your peers and unit coordinator, of the new venture concept you have developed (Marks incorporate a short individual reflection on team work).
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.2), HO (2.2), PC (3.2), TS (4.2), SE (5.2).
Assessment: Self-Reflection Report
Throughout the unit you are required to reflect upon your entrepreneurial self and your entrepreneurial mindset and document these reflections in a report. Your report will comprise three components. First, you will reflect on a personality test around your entrepreneurial mindset and your social impact awareness taken at the beginning of the unit. Second, you will identify and interview an entrepreneur or intrapreneur and reflect upon this conversation. Third, you will reflect on a personality test to be taken at the end of the unit, and consideration of any changes in your entrepreneurial mindset throughout the unit. And fourth, reflect on the panel discussion and guest lectures throughout the semester. This final assessment will help you understand your journey in developing entrepreneurial skills and mindset.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): TS (4.1), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Hisrich R.D., Peters, M.P., and Shepherd, D.A., (2013) Entrepreneurship; 9th ed; McGraw Hill New York NY.
Additional references can also be found at the unit's Canvas site.
Ries, E. (2011) The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses; Crown Business USA
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with lectures or tutorials in this unit.
You should, however, familiarise yourself with evacuation procedures operating in the buildings in which you attend classes and take the time to view the Emergency video http://www.fmd.qut.edu.au/security/dvd/Evacuation_282k.wmv.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
HO (2.2): Independent Judgement and Decision-Making
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
KS (1.1): Discipline and Professional Practice Knowledge
Relates to: ULO2, Online quiz
KS (1.2): Technical, Technological and Research Skills
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
PC (3.2): Professional Communication (Oral)
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
SE (5.2): Global Social Responsibility
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.1): Self-Reflection and Accountability
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.2): Teamwork Knowledge and Skills
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.BS11 Master of Business
- Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Online quiz - Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report - Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Self-Reflection Report - Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Online
| Unit code: | MGN428 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Anti-requisite: | GSN410, GSZ410 |
Overview
This unit introduces the processes of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, while guiding students along the pathway to discovering their entrepreneurial-selves as they gain hands-on experience with the process. The unit is designed for a broad audience, including managers, human resource managers, business people, professionals in IT, industrial design and engineering graduates, advisors to business start-ups, and those wanting to pursue opportunities for new and existing ventures. In this unit you will develop entrepreneurial thinking and mindset, being able to explore and exploit recognised opportunities. The unit will cover fundamental elements of new venture creation, such as opportunity discovery, feasibility assessment, and social impact through reflective practice.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand your own entrepreneurial skills and mindset through self-discovery and your experiences in the unit. [TS 4.1]Relates to: PG Business Capabilities: TS (4.1)
- Understand the theoretical foundations of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. [KS 1.1, HO 2.2, SE 5.2]
- Develop a business model, including a value proposition, target customers, partners, channels, operations, revenue streams and cost structures, which define a new venture that aims to deliver social impact. [KS 1.2, SE 5.2]
- Demonstrate verbal communication skills in describing the entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture. [PC 3.2, TS 4.1, 4.2]
Content
- Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial mindset, passion, and self-discovery
- Opportunity discovery, assessment, feasibility, and exploitation
- Diffusion of Innovation theory
- Early adopters
- Value propositions and social enterprise
- Product-market fit
- Risk assessment
- The elevator pitch
- Entrepreneurial passion
- Entrepreneurial resilience
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
The content and assessment in this unit are aligned to a selection of the following set of QUT Business Capabilities, also known as Assurance of Learning Goals (AoLs). Developing these capabilities will assist you to meet the desired graduate outcomes set at QUT and equip you with the knowledge and skills to succeed in your chosen career.
Knowledge & Technical Skills (KS)
1.1 Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
1.2 Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HO)
2.1 Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
2.2 Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Professional Communication (PC)
3.1 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in written forms and using media appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
3.2 Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Teamwork & Self (TS)
4.1 Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
4.2 Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Social, Ethical & Global Understanding (SE)
5.1 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of ethical and legal principles and practices of business in critically analysing and effectively responding to complex business issues.
5.2 Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Learning Approaches
This unit utilises class discussion of key concepts, inside class activities, as well as outside class activities. The teaching methods for this unit utilise the integration of theoretical, case study, applied and practical approaches. Students are encouraged in their fieldwork to research a business idea and develop a business model that can deliver social impact. The unit employs self-reflection techniques to guide students in their learning of their entrepreneurial skills, as they engage with start-up issues from the entrepreneur's perspective.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Students will receive feedback in various forms throughout the semester which may include:
- Informal: worked examples, such as verbal feedback in class, personal consultation
- Formal: in writing, such as checklists (e.g. criteria sheets), written commentary
- Direct: to individual students, either in written form or in consultation
- Indirect: to the whole class
Assessment
Overview
The assessment in this unit aims to support your achievement of the learning objectives for both Discipline Knowledge and Other Graduate Capabilities. Assessment has been designed in order to allow you to:
- Receive feedback on your learning as you progress toward the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes (formative assessment); and
- Demonstrate your learning in order to achieve a final grade (summative assessment).
Students may be required to attend campus or an assessment centre for the purposes of assessment, regardless of the attendance mode for the unit
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Online quiz
You will undertake an examination to test your knowledge of the critical components of the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial process, i.e. the ‘toolbox’, covered in the unit.
Formative or Summative: Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.1)
Assessment: Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
You are required to work in a team of 3-4 members in developing a new entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture concept during the semester, designed with a social impact, and then delivering a 3-4 minute elevator pitch to your peers and unit coordinator, of the new venture concept you have developed (Marks incorporate a short individual reflection on team work).
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.2), HO (2.2), PC (3.2), TS (4.2), SE (5.2).
Assessment: Self-Reflection Report
Throughout the unit you are required to reflect upon your entrepreneurial self and your entrepreneurial mindset and document these reflections in a report. Your report will comprise three components. First, you will reflect on a personality test around your entrepreneurial mindset and your social impact awareness taken at the beginning of the unit. Second, you will identify and interview an entrepreneur or intrapreneur and reflect upon this conversation. Third, you will reflect on a personality test to be taken at the end of the unit, and consideration of any changes in your entrepreneurial mindset throughout the unit. And fourth, reflect on the panel discussion and guest lectures throughout the semester. This final assessment will help you understand your journey in developing entrepreneurial skills and mindset.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative.
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): TS (4.1), SE (5.2)
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Recommended text(s)
Hisrich R.D., Peters, M.P., and Shepherd, D.A., (2013) Entrepreneurship; 9th ed; McGraw Hill New York NY.
Additional references can also be found at the unit's Canvas site.
Ries, E. (2011) The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses; Crown Business USA
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with lectures or tutorials in this unit.
You should, however, familiarise yourself with evacuation procedures operating in the buildings in which you attend classes and take the time to view the Emergency video http://www.fmd.qut.edu.au/security/dvd/Evacuation_282k.wmv.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
HO (2.2): Independent Judgement and Decision-Making
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
KS (1.1): Discipline and Professional Practice Knowledge
Relates to: ULO2, Online quiz
KS (1.2): Technical, Technological and Research Skills
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
PC (3.2): Professional Communication (Oral)
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
SE (5.2): Global Social Responsibility
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.1): Self-Reflection and Accountability
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Self-Reflection Report
TS (4.2): Teamwork Knowledge and Skills
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.BS11 Master of Business
- Demonstrate and apply integrated and advanced discipline and professional practice knowledge, including knowledge of relevant research principles and methods.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Online quiz - Demonstrate and apply knowledge of socially responsible behaviour in analysing and addressing business issues and critically reflect on the responsibilities and impacts of organisations in national and international business contexts.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation, Self-Reflection Report - Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Relates to: ULO3, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise creativity and intellectual independence and make informed decisions and judgements in planning, designing, and executing strategic and research-based responses to address real world issues and problems.
Relates to: ULO2, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation - Exercise self-reflection and accountability in applying knowledge and skills for own learning and effective practice.
Relates to: ULO4, Self-Reflection Report - Apply teamwork knowledge and skills for effective collaboration across a range of complex activities and contexts.
Relates to: ULO4, Group Pitch and Peer Evaluation