Working on bringing innovative ideas or discoveries into reality, either on your own or internal to an organisation, can be a daunting task. The processes of Innovation, Startup and Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship require different skill sets and specialist knowledge and can be very difficult to successfully balance, particularly as an individual. This course is designed to furnish participants with an understanding of these three processes and how they differ yet support each other. Through an innovative mix of learning, teaching and assessment methods students will work in small teams, and with mentors, to identify an opportunity, innovate a solution, design a product or service and develop an entrepreneurial approach to delivering it to. Successful completion of the course should result in participants being ideal Startup founders, cofounders or team members.<o:p></o:p>
| Course Code | GSOE9220 |
| Course Title | Launching a startup |
| Convenor | Alexander Mednis |
| Admin | Alexander Mednis |
| Classes |
Lectures
: 1-4pm Tuesdays
Timetable for all classes |
| Consultations | By email |
| Units of Credit | 6 |
| Course Website | http://cse.unsw.edu.au/~gs9220/20T3/ |
| Handbook Entry | http://www.handbook.unsw.edu.au/postgraduate/courses/current/GSOE9220.html |
Working on bringing innovative ideas or discoveries into reality, either on your own or internal to an organisation, can be a daunting task. The processes of Innovation, Startup and Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship require different skill sets and specialist knowledge and can be very difficult to successfully balance, particularly as an individual. This course is designed to furnish participants with an understanding of these three processes and how they differ yet support each other. Through an innovative mix of learning, teaching and assessment methods students will work in small teams, and with mentors, to identify an opportunity, innovate a solution, design a product or service and develop an entrepreneurial approach to delivering it to. Successful completion of the course should result in participants being ideal Startup founders, cofounders or team members.<o:p></o:p>
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After completing this course, students should be able to:
This course contributes to the development of the following graduate capabilities:
| Graduate Capability | Acquired in |
| Scholars capable of independent and collaborative enquiry, rigorous in their analysis, critique and reflection, and able to innovate by applying their knowledge and skills to the solution of novel as well as routine problems | All tasks |
| Entrepreneurial leaders capable of initiating and embracing innovation and change, as well as engaging and enabling others to contribute to change | All tasks |
| Professionals capable of ethical, self- directed practice and independent lifelong learning | Tasks 2 & 3 |
| Global citizens who are culturally adept and capable of respecting diversity and acting in a socially just and responsible way | Task 2 |
Whilst some aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship can be learned via traditional methods such as lectures, readings, case studies, literature review and pure and applied theoretical approaches, research on innovation and entrepreneurship education has shown a learning-by-doing (experiential) approach is more effective. This course integrates the best aspects of both approaches through a strong experiential-learning focus scaffolded by a flipped-classroom model incorporating current academic literature and industry studies. The course is enriched with engaged learning opportunities from weekly interaction with industry and practicing entrepreneurs to tailored team mentoring sessions. It is also supported with weekly online topics based on the Lean LaunchPad, which is used by leaders in this space such as Stanford, Berkley and the University of Pennsylvania.
During their project, students will form small teams, identify potential business opportunities and utilise enquiry based learning to innovate, create and assess the viability of their business model. Upon completion of their project, students will pitch their business model to a panel and reflect on their learning process.
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In particular, students have the responsibility to observe standards of equity and respect in dealing with every member of the University community. This applies to all activities on UNSW premises and all external activities related to study and research. This includes behaviour in person as well as behaviour on social media, for example Facebook groups set up for the purpose of discussing UNSW courses or course work. Behaviour that is considered in breach of the Student Code Policy as discriminatory, sexually inappropriate, bullying, harassing, invading another's privacy or causing any person to fear for their personal safety is serious misconduct and can lead to severe penalties, including suspension or exclusion from UNSW.
If you have any concerns, you may raise them with your lecturer, or approach the School Ethics Officer , Grievance Officer , or one of the student representatives.
Plagiarism is defined as using the words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own. UNSW and CSE treat plagiarism as academic misconduct, which means that it carries penalties as severe as being excluded from further study at UNSW. There are several on-line sources to help you understand what plagiarism is and how it is dealt with at UNSW:
Make sure that you read and understand these. Ignorance is not accepted as an excuse for plagiarism. In particular, you are also responsible that your assignment files are not accessible by anyone but you by setting the correct permissions in your CSE directory and code repository, if using. Note also that plagiarism includes paying or asking another person to do a piece of work for you and then submitting it as your own work.
UNSW has an ongoing commitment to fostering a culture of learning informed by academic integrity. All UNSW staff and students have a responsibility to adhere to this principle of academic integrity. Plagiarism undermines academic integrity and is not tolerated at UNSW. Plagiarism at UNSW is defined as using the words or ideas of others and passing them off as your own.
If you haven't done so yet, please take the time to read the full text of
The pages below describe the policies and procedures in more detail:
You should also read the following page which describes your rights and responsibilities in the CSE context:
| Item | Topics | Due | Marks | Contributes to |
| Task 1 | Professional practice | Weeks2&3, 9 | 20% | All graduate outcomes |
| Task 2 | Team presentations | Week 3,5,8 | 45% | All graduate outcomes |
| Task 3 | Team pitch | Week 10 | 35% | All graduate outcomes |
See PDF course schedule for lecture content.
Recommend readings will be posted each week.
This course is evaluated each session using the myExperience system.
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