200-level

INOV200
Opportunities: Here, There and Everywhere
Description
Students are introduced to the entrepreneurial worldview that opportunities for innovation can be found across geographic, socioeconomic, industry, and cultural boundaries. Students must demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset through which they constantly seek to recognize innovation opportunities, across multiple contexts. Students are required to identify innovation opportunities that are local, national, and international in scope.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 60 points
INOV201
Will it Fly?: Feasibility Assessment of New Innovation
Description
This course examines the significant differences between novelty and innovativeness. Students are expected to demonstrate a fluency with multiple types of analyses in order to ultimately provide a compelling answer to the important question of whether a creative idea is feasible (based on an assessment of physical, financial, market, regulatory, cultural, and other conditions).
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 60 points. RP: INOV200
INOV290
Enterprise in Practice (Project)
Description
This course leverages your innovation and creative thinking through a real-world project to make a difference for an organisation. Over the course of the semester, you will work in a team to come up with a concept solution to a challenge posed by a business, social enterprise or other organisation. If you have your own idea for a venture you may have the opportunity to work on that venture as your project. You will gain real-world experience working with key stakeholders and mentors and will learn to apply a number of business tools and techniques as you come up with your concept solutions. This is an opportunity for you to have a real impact for an organisation.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
120 points at 100-level or above
Restrictions
BSNS290

Not Offered Courses in 2024

200-level

INOV202
Emerging Technologies
Description
A key focus of this course is on how technology can be an enabler of radical changes to competition. In this course students are exposed to leading current technologies in multiple sector settings. Moreover, students are required to demonstrate an understanding of how emerging technologies may potentially contribute to a reordering of winners and losers in a particular competitive space.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2019 , 2020 , 2021
For further information see INOV202 course details
Points
15 points

300-level

INOV300
Societal Impact Through Innovation
Description
This course is the first of a two-course capstone experience in which students are required to demonstrate potential societal impacts of emerging innovations. Students work on teams with local/national organisations to assess the connection between focus innovations and anticipated societal impact. In this portion of the capstone experience students are required to develop a comprehensive review, identifying expected points of potential impact of focal innovations on society.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see INOV300 course details
Points
15 points
INOV301
Implementing for Societal Impact: Tools for Innovators
Description
This course is the second of a two-course capstone experience in which students are required to demonstrate potential societal impacts of emerging innovations. Students must critically analyse the anticipated impact on various stakeholder groups of changes in a given sector's value chain. In this portion of the capstone experience students are required to generate data-driven insights into potential societal changes to be initiated via focal innovations. Emphasis is on developing compelling evidence-based arguments in evaluating the possible societal impact of innovations.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see INOV301 course details
Points
15 points
INOV390
Innovation Practicum
Description
Students in this applied, project-based course gain significant practical experience working with local and national organizations to develop and implement innovative solutions to pressing economic/social challenges. Students must combine insights gathered through experiential learning with the conceptual foundations built via prior coursework. Upon completion of this course students are expected to present an assessment of the proposed solution(s) and provide a detailed update regarding implementation of the innovations.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see INOV390 course details
Points
30 points