School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Innovative and Practical Projects
  • Unit Code

    ENT2612
  • Year

    2026
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jalleh SHARAFIZAD

Description

This unit aims to provide students with the skills and tools needed to manage projects in an entrepreneurial environment. At its essence, entrepreneurship focuses on transforming business ideas into reality. Through a structured approach to planning, executing, and concluding projects, entrepreneurs can keep initiatives on track and align them with the overall strategy of the venture. By defining each project's scope and goals, assembling an effective project team, creating a detailed project plan, monitoring progress, managing risks, and successfully closing projects, entrepreneurs can achieve successful outcomes. This unit is designed to equip students with the expertise needed to manage complex, high-value business projects. Students will gain the knowledge, skills, and conceptual understanding in areas such as resource management, risk management, business analysis, and strategy.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically appraise the entrepreneur's role as project leader.
  2. Apply entrepreneurial knowledge and theory to a practical project.
  3. Evaluate the role of interdisciplinary teams and key stakeholders in supporting projects and operations within an entrepreneurial setting.
  4. Create a comprehensive project plan in an entrepreneurial setting.
  5. Communicate effectively and professionally while functioning as a project leader.

Unit Content

  1. Managing projects in an entrepreneurial environment.
  2. Understand the determinants of a viable entrepreneurial project including selection and initiation.
  3. Managing and dealing with limited resources.
  4. Understanding how the procurement process works within projects.
  5. Managing clients, team members and stakeholders.
  6. Planning project closure and conducting project evaluation.
  7. Quality, risk and issue management.
  8. Project planning and administration.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Assessment - Project report50%
AssignmentIndividual Assessment - Unit workbook50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Assessment - Project report50%
AssignmentIndividual Assessment - Unit workbook50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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