MGN585 Entrepreneurial Leadership
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| Unit code: | MGN585 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 24 credit points of completed study |
| Equivalent(s): | MGN432 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,596 |
| International unit fee | $6,180 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | MGN585 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 24 credit points of completed study |
| Equivalent: | MGN432 |
| Coordinator: | Jack Adams | j29.adams@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Entrepreneurial leadership is an essential capability for you as a manager in today’s rapidly changing business environment. Entrepreneurship requires you to identify and evaluate new opportunities that can lead to new ventures as well as the growth and renewal of existing organisations. Equally important is intrapreneurship — your ability to drive innovation, create value, and champion change from within established organisations. This unit equips you with state-of-the-art techniques developed by leading universities, innovators, and entrepreneurs, enabling you to pursue high-impact initiatives as both an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur. With a strong emphasis on social value and sustainable development, you will develop the skills to lead entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial projects that generate innovation, impact, and long-term success.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate and integrate discipline knowledge, entrepreneurial tools, and analytical frameworks to identify either an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial business opportunity. [KS 1.1, KS 1.2, HO 2.1]
- Design and justify a feasible, viable, and scalable entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture/project that address a sustainable development challenge. [KS 1.2, HO 2.2, SE 5.2]
- Develop a business plan pitch that incorporates related issues and concepts in real world contexts and presented it in a persuasive manner. [HO 2.2, PC 3.2]
Content
The topics covered in this unit include:
- Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship – understanding opportunity creation both in new ventures and within established organisations.
- Lean Start-up Principles and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – experimenting, testing, and iterating ideas rapidly.
- Customer and Market Analysis, Value Proposition Design and Societal Impact – aligning customer value with social and sustainable outcomes.
- Opportunity Identification and Feasibility Evaluation – recognising scalable opportunities and assessing viability.
- Ambidextrous Thinking and Innovation – balancing exploration of new opportunities with exploitation of existing capabilities.
- Business Models and Strategic Planning – designing innovative and sustainable business models
- Pitching and Communication for Impact – presenting ventures and intrapreneurial projects persuasively to stakeholders, funders, or internal decision-makers.
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
The teaching and learning strategies applied in this unit are intended to maximise your involvement and engagement with the concepts that are being presented and to provide opportunities for you to develop thinking and practical skills in a supportive environment. Learning activities are structured to provide a dynamic learning environment to promote critical and analytical applications of theory and frameworks to real world cases. A wide range of approaches are utilised to create interactive learning experiences across learning activities.
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).
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis
The aim of this assessment is for you to identify and justify a viable opportunity for business growth for a case organisation. This opportunity may involve an entrepreneurial idea for a new venture or an intrapreneurial idea within an existing business. To do this, you will analyse the case organisation to identify potential opportunities and present your findings to demonstrate the case for business growth.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorized in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.1, 1.2), HO (2.1), SE (5.2)
Assessment: Business Plan Pitch
You will present a robust and persuasive entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial business plan that identifies a range of contextual, strategic, financial, technological and ethical issues that should be considered for the implementation of your plan. Your pitch should provide a clear articulation of the value (socially, technically and financially) that your solution provides the case organisation. It should also note milestones, risks, stakeholder needs and resources that are required for your plan.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorized in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assessment item requires your attendance at your scheduled tutorial/session.
The late submission period does not apply, and no assignment extensions are available.
Formative or Summative: Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.2), HO (2.2), PC (3.2), SE (5.2)
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
There is no prescribed text for this unit. All required resources will be available via Canvas.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with learning and teaching activities in this unit.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
HO (2.1): Critical Analysis
Relates to: ULO1, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis
HO (2.2): Independent Judgement and Decision-Making
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Business Plan Pitch
KS (1.1): Discipline and Professional Practice Knowledge
Relates to: ULO1, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis
KS (1.2): Technical, Technological and Research Skills
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch
PC (3.2): Professional Communication (Oral)
Relates to: ULO3, Business Plan Pitch
SE (5.2): Global Social Responsibility
Relates to: ULO2, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch
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, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis - 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, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch - Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch - Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis - 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, ULO3, Business Plan Pitch - Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Relates to: ULO3, Business Plan Pitch
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Online
| Unit code: | MGN585 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 24 credit points of completed study |
| Equivalent: | MGN432 |
Overview
Entrepreneurial leadership is an essential capability for you as a manager in today’s rapidly changing business environment. Entrepreneurship requires you to identify and evaluate new opportunities that can lead to new ventures as well as the growth and renewal of existing organisations. Equally important is intrapreneurship — your ability to drive innovation, create value, and champion change from within established organisations. This unit equips you with state-of-the-art techniques developed by leading universities, innovators, and entrepreneurs, enabling you to pursue high-impact initiatives as both an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur. With a strong emphasis on social value and sustainable development, you will develop the skills to lead entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial projects that generate innovation, impact, and long-term success.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate and integrate discipline knowledge, entrepreneurial tools, and analytical frameworks to identify either an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial business opportunity. [KS 1.1, KS 1.2, HO 2.1]
- Design and justify a feasible, viable, and scalable entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture/project that address a sustainable development challenge. [KS 1.2, HO 2.2, SE 5.2]
- Develop a business plan pitch that incorporates related issues and concepts in real world contexts and presented it in a persuasive manner. [HO 2.2, PC 3.2]
Content
The topics covered in this unit include:
- Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship – understanding opportunity creation both in new ventures and within established organisations.
- Lean Start-up Principles and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) – experimenting, testing, and iterating ideas rapidly.
- Customer and Market Analysis, Value Proposition Design and Societal Impact – aligning customer value with social and sustainable outcomes.
- Opportunity Identification and Feasibility Evaluation – recognising scalable opportunities and assessing viability.
- Ambidextrous Thinking and Innovation – balancing exploration of new opportunities with exploitation of existing capabilities.
- Business Models and Strategic Planning – designing innovative and sustainable business models
- Pitching and Communication for Impact – presenting ventures and intrapreneurial projects persuasively to stakeholders, funders, or internal decision-makers.
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
The teaching and learning strategies applied in this unit are intended to maximise your involvement and engagement with the concepts that are being presented and to provide opportunities for you to develop thinking and practical skills in a supportive environment. Learning activities are structured to provide a dynamic learning environment to promote critical and analytical applications of theory and frameworks to real world cases. A wide range of approaches are utilised to create interactive learning experiences across learning activities.
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).
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis
The aim of this assessment is for you to identify and justify a viable opportunity for business growth for a case organisation. This opportunity may involve an entrepreneurial idea for a new venture or an intrapreneurial idea within an existing business. To do this, you will analyse the case organisation to identify potential opportunities and present your findings to demonstrate the case for business growth.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorized in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Formative or Summative: Formative and Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.1, 1.2), HO (2.1), SE (5.2)
Assessment: Business Plan Pitch
You will present a robust and persuasive entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial business plan that identifies a range of contextual, strategic, financial, technological and ethical issues that should be considered for the implementation of your plan. Your pitch should provide a clear articulation of the value (socially, technically and financially) that your solution provides the case organisation. It should also note milestones, risks, stakeholder needs and resources that are required for your plan.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorized in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assessment item requires your attendance at your scheduled tutorial/session.
The late submission period does not apply, and no assignment extensions are available.
Formative or Summative: Summative
Business Capabilities (AoL goals): KS (1.2), HO (2.2), PC (3.2), SE (5.2)
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
There is no prescribed text for this unit. All required resources will be available via Canvas.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the ordinary risks associated with learning and teaching activities in this unit.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
QUT Business Capabilities (Postgraduate)
HO (2.1): Critical Analysis
Relates to: ULO1, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis
HO (2.2): Independent Judgement and Decision-Making
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Business Plan Pitch
KS (1.1): Discipline and Professional Practice Knowledge
Relates to: ULO1, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis
KS (1.2): Technical, Technological and Research Skills
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch
PC (3.2): Professional Communication (Oral)
Relates to: ULO3, Business Plan Pitch
SE (5.2): Global Social Responsibility
Relates to: ULO2, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch
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, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis - 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, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch - Apply technical, technological and technical research skills to organise and interpret discipline knowledge, including theory and practice, to investigate business issues.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis, Business Plan Pitch - Critically investigate real world business issues and problems drawing on analysis, evaluation and synthesis of discipline knowledge, including theory and practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Analysis - 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, ULO3, Business Plan Pitch - Use information literacy skills and communicate effectively and professionally in oral forms appropriate for diverse purposes, contexts and audiences.
Relates to: ULO3, Business Plan Pitch