Last modified: 07 Aug 2025 14:46
This course is focused on understanding how science, society, enterprise and innovation are interrelated. The emphasis is on creativity (coming up with ideas) and understanding how science and enterprise align.
A series of on-campus workshops and off-campus visits will introduce you to ideas and processes outside academia as well as inside. The course will give you insights on innovation, invention and enterprise, which will be extremely useful whichever career path you take.
Using the information and understanding gained, you will generate ideas and possibly inventions.
You will demonstrate competence in core components of enterprise by producing a professional business canvass.
You will reflect on the diversity of organisations and their approach to enterprise by creating a reflective journal.
*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, you will develop your own ideas, which you will have the opportunity to describe and explain to staff and peers.
Your ideas will form the basis for a business canvass.
Formative feedback will occur throughout the course by way of informal discussions between staff and students, and between students. Although there may be a healthy level of competition between students, the ethos will be very much that staff and students are part of a team pulling in the same direction – innovating.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| 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 | 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 | 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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| 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 |
| 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. |
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