Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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