Undergraduate Courses
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Business Innovation

**Note: This major is currently under review and is not available to commencing students in 2015.

Innovation is what causes businesses to grow. The rapid development and integration of technologies, markets and organisations is a key feature of business innovation. Studying business innovation will enable you to thrive in this ever-changing environment. You will learn concepts from management, marketing and economics in a non-technical and accessible manner, giving you the tools to create and adopt innovations successfully. The four compulsory core subjects include: Economic Essentials for Business Innovation; Economics of Small and Medium Enterprises; Managing Knowledge in Organisations; and Innovation and Electronic Commerce.

Subjects required for major study

Code

Subject

Session

Credit Points

ECON219

Economic Essentials for Business Innovation

Not on offer in 2015

6

ECON320

Economics of Small and Medium Enterprises

Autumn

6

MGMT209

Managing Knowledge in Organisations

Not on offer in 2015

6

MGMT300

Managing Innovation

Not on offer in 2015

6

Plus 12 credit points from the list of subjects below. At least 6 credit points must be from 300 level Economics subjects and the other 6 from 200 or 300 level Economics subjects.

ECON216

International Trade Theory & Policy

Spring

6

ECON231

The Creative Economy

Autumn

6

ECON251

Industry and Trade in East Asia

Spring

6

ECON306

The Chinese Economy

Spring

6

ECON309

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Autumn

6

ECON319

Electronic Commerce and the Economics of Information

Not on offer in 2015

6

Plus 12 credit points from the list of subjects below. At least 6 credit points must be from 300 level and the other 6 from 200 or 300 level Management/Marketing subjects.

MGMT200

Management and Electronic Business

Autumn

6

MGMT215

Small Business Management

Not on offer in 2015

6

MGMT218

Competitive Analysis

Not on offer in 2015

6

MGMT311

Management of Change

Spring

6

MGMT332

Entrepreneurship

Not on offer in 2015

6

MARK301

Internet Applications for Marketing

Autumn

6

MARK356

Creating and Marketing New Products

Not on offer in 2015

6

Other information

Further information is available at:
Email: business-enquiries@uow.edu.au

Last reviewed: 22 October, 2014