Adding Innovation and Enterprise topics to your Flinders degree will empower you with the skills to solve problems, identify opportunities, develop new ideas, and adapt to change in an evolving world. Topics will teach you creative thinking, innovation training, collaboration, entrepreneurship, how to leverage your network for innovation, how to create positive social impact, how to turn your ideas into a reality and more.
When you study at Flinders, you'll experience a future-focused curriculum, informed by our strong connections with governments and industry and learn in state-of-the-art facilities, guided by the best and brightest minds.
No matter what you choose to study, gaining innovation and enterprise skills and competencies can add value to your studies.
Your program of study details what core, option or elective topics you can study in your degree.
Check out our exciting suite of Innovation and Enterprise topics you could study each year.
Add your chosen topics as electives or option topics in your current degree.
Study Outer Space Governance: Business, Policy, Law and Crime.
Globally, the space sector is experiencing rapid growth.
Students who undertake our Outer Space Governance: Business, Policy, Law and Crime topic will build a solid foundation in space law and policy, and learn how to tackle problems in space through innovative, project-based learning.
Being creative is about solving problems or approaching opportunities in novel and valuable ways. This topic is designed to help all students better harness their full creative potential-whether you think: "I am not creative" or "I already have more ideas than I can handle", this class will help you come up with more creative ideas that offer more value and have greater impact on the world.
Although creativity has been studied by nearly every professional domain, this course focuses on creativity as a driver of organisational innovation-from non-profits to small businesses and large corporations to students' own entrepreneurial startups, creativity and innovation is critical to providing value and ensuring long-term survival.
Throughout this topic students will develop important life skills while learning to creatively solve problems through a number of real-world innovation challenges. No matter what career or profession you are going into, being more creative and appreciating how and why modern organisations function the way that they do will help you to be more valuable, more employable, more innovative, and more entrepreneurial.
Topic code: INNO1001 | View on Handbook
Unbridled advances in technology and connectedness have transformed the relationship between companies, customers, and competitors. With this transformation, the lines between business relationships, social connections, and competitive advantage are converging and becoming increasingly intertwined. At the same time, there is a growing urgency to collaborate across boundaries to co-create solutions to the world's increasingly complex, "wicked" problems. As a result, companies across all industries and size classes-from established industry giants to high-growth companies in new technology areas-require the skills and knowledge to strategically harness the power of "the crowd" for collaborative and open innovation.
This highly experiential and challenge-led topic is designed to help students: understand how open innovation is used to create competitive advantage, improve society, and disrupt markets; develop the analytical ability to assess ambiguous, unstructured problems and provide solutions; apply practical tools for open innovation, crowdsourcing, collaboration and co-creation and crowdfunding and create new value by developing and implementing co-innovation initiatives.
Topic code: INNO1003 | View on Handbook
It appears that a business oriented around a mission or purpose can create competitive advantage, as it encourages customers to want to purchase from them, employees to want to work for them and partners to want to collaborate with them. Two cultures are at play in the field of social innovation: an age-old culture of charity, and a more contemporary culture of entrepreneurial problem solving.
Students explore how social entrepreneurs apply an entrepreneurial mindset of innovation, risk taking and large scale transformation to social problem solving with the potential to build social business models that generate rapid and sustained social impact. Project driven, students will extend on their economic analysis of social innovation in practice, by applying practical (social media) interactive tools for story-telling, spreading the word and community building to the development and user-testing of their own social innovation.
Topic code: INNO2001 | View on Handbook
The most effective innovators and entrepreneurs are those who can adapt their ideas to fit reality. This topic focuses on learning and applying a variety of hands-on tools for testing out the desirability, feasibility and viability of any idea. Through readings, videos and a series of in-the-field exercises, students will test, refine, test again, and refine again a particular innovation.
Along the way, students will learn a variety of skills and tools to understand and test users' needs and perceptions, customers and funders' willingness to pay and competitive dynamics and learn how to use these insights to validate a new innovation project or venture.
Topic code: INNO2004 | View on Handbook
Whether interested in launching new ventures or transforming existing businesses, 'From Innovation to Impact' develops students' capacity to go beyond "thinking big" to "making an impact". This topic examines two key factors in moving innovations towards market and user adoption: 1) an agile, "go-to-market" strategy 2) a scalable, repeatable business model. Students will consider how market and industry landscapes and value chains impact routes to markets and go-to-market strategies.
Using the business model canvas methodology, students will learn to evaluate which business model best fits a particular opportunity and/or enterprise. Working on an existing opportunity, either the student's own or that of an organisation, students will explore the cutting-edge concepts, skills, know-how, attitudes and innovative alternatives relevant for designing a successful business model and go-to-market strategy for a new venture or early-stage innovation project.
Topic code: INNO3001A | View on Handbook
Explore the history and current landscape of the space governance environment, including space law and policy. The space sector is growing in South Australia, Australia, and around the world. Space intersects across multiple industries and touches every aspect of our everyday life.
After building a solid foundation in space law and policy, this topic will teach students how to tackle wicked problems in space innovatively through project-based learning. The first half of the semester is focussed on classroom-based learning while the second part of the semester is project-based learning with industry partners in the space sector.
Topic code: INNO3007 | View on Handbook
It appears that a business oriented around a mission or purpose can create competitive advantage, as it encourages customers to want to purchase from them, employees to want to work for them and partners to want to collaborate with them. Two cultures are at play in the field of social innovation: an age-old culture of charity, and a more contemporary culture of entrepreneurial problem solving.
Students explore how social entrepreneurs apply an entrepreneurial mindset of innovation, risk taking and large scale transformation to social problem solving with the potential to build social business models that generate rapid and sustained social impact. Project driven, students will extend on their economic analysis of social innovation in practice, by applying practical (social media) interactive tools for story-telling, spreading the word and community building to the development and user-testing of their own social innovation.
Topic code: INNO3002 | View on Handbook
You'll be equipped with applied, relevant teaching practice informed by strong connections with government and industry.
Our internationally recognised research profile and Australian Industrial Transformation Institute informs how we teach.
The Australian Industrial Transformation Institute are leading the charge on industry and workplace innovation as we enter Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution. We are researching the human and business impacts of technological change and building knowledge to inform strategy, policy and program development.
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