MON2750 · Monash Innovation Guarantee

Overview

The Monash Innovation Guarantee is an intensive unit designed to equip you with the holistic skills and mindsets required to lead innovation solutions. You will work on a purpose-driven solution to a real-world challenge facing a commercial or social enterprise, a government or UN agency, or a start-up. Based in a range of on and off campus collaboration spaces, you will be guided through a three-week innovation process involving analysis, design, testing, validation, and pitching. The Monash Innovation Guarantee provides a solutions-focused experience to transform your capacity to drive change. It provides a basis for understanding how to intervene in contemporary global issues facing industry, and the implications for society.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. analyse an industry challenge, considering relevant stakeholders and systems
2. apply innovation methods and mindsets to design purpose-driven solutions
3. communicate effectively to industry partners from different sectors
4. collaborate to integrate and leverage interdisciplinary knowledge to approach real-world issues
5. reflect upon your role in the project, in the context of your emerging professional identity.

Workload

144 hours, made up of intensive workshops and personal learning.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.