Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:10
This course is focused on understanding how science, society, enterprise and innovation are interrelated.
A series of on-campus workshops and off-campus visits will introduce you to ideas and processes that take place outside academia as well as inside.
Using the information and understanding you gain, you will generate ideas on how innovation and enterprise works and present them to staff and peers.
You will demonstrate competence in core components of enterprise by producing a professional business plan.
You will reflect on the diversity of organisations and their approach to enterprise.
*Please note that the sessions for this course are scheduled on a Wednesday, including 4 fortnightly full day (09:00 – 17:00) field trips*
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Humans are innovative in ways that we have yet to detect in other species. Each of us can innovate. But having the opportunity to create and innovate in a scientific environment can sometimes feel limited.
On this course, students have a series of workshops and site visits, hosted and delivered by experts in a range of disciplines, who work outside and within the university. Each session will focus on science, innovation, creativity and enterprise.
As the course progresses, students will develop their own ideas, which they will have the opportunity to describe and explain to staff and peers.
Students will work individually on ideas, but will be put into pods with other students, to gain peer support and critique.
The idea or set of ideas will form the basis for a business plan.
Formative feedback will occur throughout the course by way of informal discussions between staff and students, and between students themselves. Although there may be a healthy level of competition between students and groups, the ethos will be very much that staff and students are part of a team pulling in the same direction – being innovative.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 39 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
| Feedback |
Word Count: Up to 1,000 words Written and informal oral feedback |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Reflection | Understand | To reflect on learning related to enterprise and innovation in science and how that has been actioned in a range of case studies in the form of a reflective journal |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 40 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
| Feedback |
Word Count: 1,200 words Written and informal oral feedback. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Create | To create a business plan that is generated through a synthesis of novel thoughts, previous knowledge and practical skills developed throughout the course. |
| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 38 | Feedback Weeks | 39 | |
| Feedback |
Length: 12 minutes Written and informal oral feedback. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | To analyse a case study in science enterprise with peers and to present key elements of innovation in the case study |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | 50,51 | Feedback Weeks | 53 | |
| Feedback |
Resit failed elements, passed element grades carried forward |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Create | To create a business plan that is generated through a synthesis of novel thoughts, previous knowledge and practical skills developed throughout the course. |
| Reflection | Understand | To reflect on learning related to enterprise and innovation in science and how that has been actioned in a range of case studies in the form of a reflective journal |
| Conceptual | Analyse | To analyse a case study in science enterprise with peers and to present key elements of innovation in the case study |
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