For all enquiries, please contact:
Name: Zrinka Tokic, eChallenge Program Manager
Email: echallenge@adelaide.edu.au

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For all academic enquiries regarding course in Adelaide, please contact:
Name: Manjula Dissanayake
Email: manjula.dissanayake@adelaide.edu.au

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1	Analyse and restructure a potential entrepreneurial opportunity using a systematic process;
2	Formulate an innovative, attainable resource methodology to exploit the opportunity;
3	Construct a cohesive entrepreneurial team to develop strategies to exploit the entrepreneurial opportunity;
4	Communicate the venture solution to a diverse range of stakeholders, including investors, in a variety of oral, written and media formats;
5	Integrate experience and learning into replication of the viability assessment process of entrepreneurial opportunities for future endeavours.

Text book:
No text required

Podcasts, recordings and materials are available on Canvas.

Library Resources
The University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library provides a range of learning resources including texts, journals, periodicals, magazines, and access to online databases and information services. It also offers a virtual library which is accessible via the University’s website. Access to the Library's electronic resources.

MyUni is the University of Adelaide's online learning environment. It is used to support traditional face-to-face lectures, tutorials and workshops at the University. MyUni provides access to various features including announcements, course materials, discussion boards and assessments for each online course of study.

This course is offered in blended learning mode with the face-to-face component offered in workshops.

Please see schedule for full details: adelaide.edu.au/echallenge/information/schedule/

Students are expected to attend workshops as scheduled. Furthermore, students should prepare for workshops. Students will be directed to work on different assessment pieces and submit for grading.

As a general guide, a 3 unit course requires:

Total workload hours: 12 Hrs per week x 13 weeks = 156 Hrs
Total contact hours: 3 Hrs per week x 12 weeks = 36 Hrs
Total self-guided study: 156 Hrs – 36 Hrs = 120 Hrs

This is a draft schedule and sessions are a guide only. The timetable may be changed during the course delivery if necessary.

Workshops are designed as a framework called the RITE framework, which encourages students to use benchmarking and industry best practice in developing a new venture. Students will need to work on their new ventures outside of the workshops to progress through the course.

Week	Content
	RELATE
1	Ideas and opportunities – understanding how to relate ideas from a customer perspective
2	Entrepreneurial mindset and team formation
3	Validating the customer needs/jobs/problems
	INNOVATE
4	Creating value and business modelling
5	Speed dating with mentors
6	Prototyping – leveraging enabling technologies, tools and methodologies
	TEST
7	Market evaluation
8	Venture Showcase
9	Value re-positioning
	EXPAND
10	Marketing and Pitching
11	Financing your venture
12	Pitch coaching

The program involves a series of formal lectures, workshops, one-to-one mentoring sessions and team meetings over the duration of the program. Participants are required, as a member of a team, to develop and write a business plan and make a presentation to a panel of judges at the semi-final stage.

An overview of the course assessment appears in the following Table. Details appear in the following section:

#	Assessment Type	Task Type	Length	Weighting	Learning Outcomes
1	Needs assessment report	Individual*	2,500 words	30%	1-3
2	New venture proposal	Individual*	5 minutes video	30%	1-3
3	Semi-finals pitches	Group	10-minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A	30%	4,5
4	Participation and Reflections	Individual*	On-going quizzes	10%	1,3,4
	Total			100%

* NOTE: As a postgraduate course, marking rubrics will be significantly different to that of the undergraduate course. Students will have to demonstrate a deeper/broader knowledge and evidenced robust research in building their argument. In addition, students must demonstrate an ability to synthesise multiple conceptual perspectives and sources of evidence to produce at a postgraduate level.

Students should attend all classes in order to pass the course. There is considerable experiential learning during classes that build your knowledge and thus enable you to be successful in this course.

Course results may be subject to moderation by the Assessment Review Committee.

Assessment requiring moderation will be carried out by the Academic Director or their nominee.

Needs assessment report: Students will write an essay focusing on a problem they have identified. The essay should delve into numerous concepts of entrepreneurial opportunity and external enablers to build and evidence an argument as to what constitutes a valuable and valid opportunity. You will determine where obvious gaps lie and identify undisclosed needs that may hinder the exploitation of the perceived opportunity. As you develop your paper you will use relevant aspects of the theory of entrepreneurial opportunity as supporting evidence to add substance and validity to the various factors and dynamics you address. Evaluate your findings, set priorities and formulate a plan of action. You will analyse and incorporate relevant academic reference sources to demonstrate a robust level of research knowledge and understanding.

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New venture proposal: Initial work for this assessment is undertaken as an individual assessment. The assessment topic is based on a particular problem where students analyse how best to develop a plan to exploit entrepreneurial opportunity. You will use related theories discussed in class, plus further readings/research undertaken during self-guided learning. Students should also utilise their expertise and any prior entrepreneurial, startup, workplace and/or volunteering experience to further evaluate the potential and identify risks for the planned new venture. Learning outcomes for this assessment will require students to demonstrate they understand the nonlinearity of planning for viable opportunity exploitation.

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Semi-final pitches: Student groups present the second iteration of their new venture positioning to a panel of investors. Each student will have the opportunity to exhibit the critical components of their venture; to articulate their value proposition for the problem identified and their prioritised solution. Students will use compelling metrics to gain credibility and develop a persuasive pitch. They will demonstrate critical thinking and their depth of knowledge to answer on-the-spot panel questions. Students will also demonstrate their ability to reflect and evaluate learning experiences during the course, including the venture showcase, to evolve and improve their new venture value proposition and positioning.

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Participation & Reflections: Active participation during the course will be assessed via quizzes. Retrospection of the course is undertaken to reflect and make sense of what has been learned through the duration of the course. Students will address key aspects of the course content, the entrepreneurial process undertaken, and both formal and informal feedback received. Students will integrate, internalise and personalise the key learnings, to gauge changes in their approach to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as perceiving the immediate application and potential future value of the new knowledge gained in both work and personal lives. The objective is to assess all the learning objectives of the course.

All text based assignments must be submitted via MyUni:

• Assignment Submission: Assignments should not be emailed to the instructor; they must be lodged via the MyUni Course site (unless specified to do both).
• Cover Sheet: Please include in the assignment a completed University of Adelaide Assessment Cover Sheet (found in MyUni, under Modules) providing details of yourself and your team members (if applicable), your assignment, the course, date submitted, etc. as well as the declaration signed by you that this is your (your team’s) work. Note that the declaration on any electronically submitted assignment will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed declaration.
• Backup Copy of Assignments: You are advised to keep a copy of your assignments in case the submitted copy goes missing. Please ensure that all assignment pages are numbered. If your assignment contains confidential information, you should discuss any concerns with the Course Lecturer prior to submission.
• Assessment extensions request: An application for Assessment Extension should be made before the due date of the assignment to the Course Lecturer. Normally, extensions will only be granted for a maximum of two weeks from the original assignment submission date. Extensions will only be granted in cases of genuine medical, compassionate or extenuating circumstances. See sections 3 and 7a) i. in particular on assessment extensions in the Modified Arrangements for Coursework Assessment (MACA) Policy.
• Failure to submit: Failure to submit an assignment on time or by the agreed extension deadline may result in penalties and may incur a fail grade. Note that a late penalty of 5% of the total available marks for that assessment item will be incurred each day an assignment is handed in late (Unless otherwise stated in 'Assessment Related Requirements' or 'Assessment Detail' above). Assignments handed in after 14 days from the due submission date will fail even if a 100% mark is granted for the work.
• Resubmission: of an assignment after reworking it to obtain a better mark will not normally be accepted. Approval for resubmission will only be granted on medical or compassionate grounds.
• Appealing a mark or grade: If you are dissatisfied with your mark or grade, you may request a review or re-mark. There must be academic or procedural reasons for your request, so you can’t simply request a re-mark because you are disappointed with your result. For more information on the process see Assessment Grievance: Appealing a mark or grade