Entrepreneurship for Sustainability (MULT30024)

Entrepreneurship for Sustainability is a project-based subject. Working in teams, learners will propose an entrepreneurial venture to improve Australia’s performance against at least one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through this subject, learners will be introduced to the SDG framework and its uses, as well as various tools to elicit and validate an entrepreneurial concept.

This subject is for anyone interested in learning, through experience, about entrepreneurial approaches to addressing real challenges to create impact and value – not just learners with entrepreneurial ambitions.

The subject contains a high degree of industry and community interaction, including guest speakers who have experience addressing SDGs through entrepreneurial means.

Learners will be supported to:
• integrate their own disciplinary knowledge relating to the problem they choose to tackle
• learn from industry speakers to enrich their grasp of the problem
• conduct background, user, and expert research to develop a deeper, shared understanding of the problem
• identify and assess creative means to address the problem, and
• design a proposed solution for impact, considering the social, environmental, and economic inputs, influences and dynamics at play.

Learners are not required to come into the subject already having an idea. At the beginning of the semester, learners will be provided with a series of prompts – specific ideas for problem areas they may choose to tackle.