Bachelor of Business Administration - Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This course is designed to help you become a highly adaptive business professional with the expertise for careers in diverse sectors. Importantly, the course emphasises the GRIT mindset (Global, Responsible, Innovation, Technology), provides transformational learning experiences, and incorporates sustainability content that aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. You’ll gain broad career opportunities and wide-ranging skills in marketing, finance, project management, human resources and strategic management. With a mix of practical business skills and high-level strategy and leadership skills, you’ll graduate knowing how to improve an existing business or succeed in your own ventures.You’ll begin by studying a suite of core units. You’ll explore value-creation in business, learn how to use financial information to make responsible decisions, and develop business intelligence and data analysis skills.You’ll also complete core units in management, gaining the foundations of key business areas such as finance, marketing,and project management. You’ll learn the key activities, tools and strategies of each area, and gain insights into technological advancements and influencing trends. In your first year, our expert staff will help you structure your degree to suit your career goals. You’ll choose two business specialisations that align with your interests. You’ll then choose either a third specialisation from selected areas in business, arts, design or science; or four elective units. In your final year you'll undertake a capstone experience to gain valuable industry experience. This unit 'caps off' your study, enabling you to put your skills and knowledge into practice and smoothing your transition from study to the workplace. With a diverse skillset that employers value and the ability to pivot to industry needs, you can confidently pursue a career as a highly adaptable, in-demand business professional.Entrepreneurs can be found in a diverse range of industries. What they have in common is ambition, an ability to think outside the box and the love of a personal challenge.If you want to pave your own way and solve problems with new ideas, services and products, you could be an entrepreneur in the making. This specialisation is designed for enterprising people who want to become entrepreneurs as founders of fast-growing businesses or work as internal corporate entrepreneurs for innovative organisations. It will complement most undergraduate degrees at Curtin. You’ll gain skills in problem solving, planning, organising and managing innovation and develop your skills, knowledge and expertise in starting, running and growing an entrepreneurial venture. This specialisation provides breadth in innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, design thinking and prototyping for innovative individuals or those wishing to work as internal corporate entrepreneurs.