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This course focuses 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 and present them to staff and peers.
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.
You will have opportunities to enter competitions to present your ideas and products to panels and audiences should you wish to – taking part is voluntary and is not marked. You will also have opportunities to develop your products and ideas in our Enterprise Hub within the university – again, this is voluntary and not marked.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First 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 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. Typical visits include commercial forests, companies producing treatments for diseases, enterprise hubs where startup companies run by students are working and production plants producing food and drinks.
As the course progresses, students will develop their own ideas and have the opportunity to describe them to staff and peers in a supportive environment.
Students will work individually on ideas, but may work with other students, to gain peer support and critique.
The idea or set of 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 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 – innovating together.
Students will be asked to reflect on their visits and workshops.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 19 | Feedback Weeks | 22 | |
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Word Count: 1,200 words Written and informal oral feedback. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 19 | Feedback Weeks | 22 | |
| Feedback |
Word Count: Up to 1,000 words Written and informal oral feedback |
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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 |
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| Assessment Weeks | 50,51 | Feedback Weeks | 53 | |
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Resit failed elements, passed element grades carried forward |
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| Reflection | Create | Through an iterative process, reflect on enterprise and innovation in science and the development of ideas and how that has been actioned in a range of case studies in the form of a reflective journal |
| Procedural | Create | To create a business canvass by reflecting on workshops, visits and conversations to create novel thoughts and ideas and produce a product. |
| 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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