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School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-10-18T06:14:14Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

 UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

 Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

BCII Connect

Biomedical Engineering Society

Business Society

Enactus

Engineering Society

HIVE Society

Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

*Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.
*Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.
*Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.
*Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2019 FEIT UIF Video: 

https://youtu.be/6UV-hg5AsqQ

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

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| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
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| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jess_MacArthur Jess MacArthur]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
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| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ephraim_Patrick Ephraim Patrick]
| [[Jasmina Dang|Jasmina Dang ]]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
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| [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Melanie_Lewis Melanie Lewis]
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| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
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[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-10-18T06:13:52Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

 UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

 Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

BCII Connect

Biomedical Engineering Society

Business Society

Enactus

Engineering Society

HIVE Society

Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

*Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.
*Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.
*Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.
*Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2019 FEIT UIF Video: 

[https://youtu.be/6UV-hg5AsqQ]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

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|-
| '''Spring 2019 HDR'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Anna_J%C3%B3zefina_Rutkowska Anna Józefina Rutkowska]
| [[SienaReynolds|Siena Reynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jess_MacArthur Jess MacArthur]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ephraim_Patrick Ephraim Patrick]
| [[Jasmina Dang|Jasmina Dang ]]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Melanie_Lewis Melanie Lewis]
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
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Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T14:03:42Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

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= 2019 Fall Under Graduate FEIT UIF =

== Strategy 1- Integrative Calendar 'My Uni' ==
<div dir="ltr">Whilst researching the different I&E programs, courses, funding opportunities and events offered at university we were surprised that so many students in our interviews had highlighted that there are not many avenues to pursue innovation in their experience at UTS other than in class. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">We have developed an Integrative Calendar based platform for students to Subscribe to different filter of I&E Events, programs, competitions and other opportunities to develop their I&E skills and develop their own ideas. The filter that students select and subscribe to will automatically sync with the application calendar and the students class schedule. This platform will funnel all events ranging from various university groups such as UTS Startups, University Societies, University Faculties and UTS Careers who all run events and programs relevant to students. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">To ensure this strategy is executable, these entities must all be contacted to provide information for their events and programs. Furthermore, an automatic channel should be developed for these entities to funnel in their programs automatically rather than manually. </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">This ‘My Uni’ App will also benefit by being included in the ‘UTS’ Application that has been launched by the university containing direct access to student enrollment pages, class timetables, grade centres and Exam information. This will ensure that a greater amount of students will have access to the application and will view it as a legitimate tool supported by the university. As such, the UIF team will need to contact the University department which has developed this platform and gain access and permission to integrate with it.  </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr">This application, which will increase student participation in I&E, will stimulate growth in such events and programs due to the student demand and interest. This will further develop the I&E canvas at university as well as enrich the environment, I&E culture and student perception of I&E.</div><div> </div>

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
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== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
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== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
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<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
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== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T14:01:27Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=PKCKcI0qSYk}}

= 2019 Fall Under Graduate FEIT UIF =

== Strategy 1- Integrative Calendar 'My Uni' ==
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 22pt;">Whilst researching the different I&E programs, courses, funding opportunities and events offered at university we were surprised that so many students in our interviews had highlighted that there are not many avenues to pursue innovation in their experience at UTS other than in class. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 22pt;">We have developed an Integrative Calendar based platform for students to Subscribe to different filter of I&E Events, programs, competitions and other opportunities to develop their I&E skills and develop their own ideas. The filter that students select and subscribe to will automatically sync with the application calendar and the students class schedule. This platform will funnel all events ranging from various university groups such as UTS Startups, University Societies, University Faculties and UTS Careers who all run events and programs relevant to students. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 22pt;">To ensure this strategy is executable, these entities must all be contacted to provide information for their events and programs. Furthermore, an automatic channel should be developed for these entities to funnel in their programs automatically rather than manually. This ‘My Uni’ App will also be included in the ‘UTS’ Application that has been launched by the university containing direct access to student enrollment pages, class timetables, grade centres and Exam information. This will ensure that a greater amount of students will have access to the application and will view it as a legitimate tool supported by the university. </div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 22pt;">This application, which will increase student participation in I&E, will stimulate growth in such events and programs due to the student demand and interest. This will further develop the I&E canvas at university as well as enrich the environment, I&E culture and student perception of I&E.</div><div> </div>

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
<div> </div>
== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T14:00:28Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

{{#widget:YouTube|id=PKCKcI0qSYk}}

= 2019 Fall Under Graduate FEIT UIF =

== Strategy 1- Integrative Calendar 'My Uni' ==
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 15pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 22pt;">Whilst researching the different I&E programs, courses, funding opportunities and events offered at university we were surprised that so many students in our interviews had highlighted that there are not many avenues to pursue innovation in their experience at UTS other than in class.We have developed an Integrative Calendar based platform for students to Subscribe to different filter of I&E Events, programs, competitions and other opportunities to develop their I&E skills and develop their own ideas. The filter that students select and subscribe to will automatically sync with the application calendar and the students class schedule. This platform will funnel all events ranging from various university groups such as UTS Startups, University Societies, University Faculties and UTS Careers who all run events and programs relevant to students. To ensure this strategy is executable, these entities must all be contacted to provide information for their events and programs. Furthermore, an automatic channel should be developed for these entities to funnel in their programs automatically rather than manually. This ‘My Uni’ App will also be included in the ‘UTS’ Application that has been launched by the university containing direct access to student enrollment pages, class timetables, grade centres and Exam information. This will ensure that a greater amount of students will have access to the application and will view it as a legitimate tool supported by the university.This application, which will increase student participation in I&E, will stimulate growth in such events and programs due to the student demand and interest. This will further develop the I&E canvas at university as well as enrich the environment, I&E culture and student perception of I&E.</div><div> </div>

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
<div> </div>
== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T13:58:51Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

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= 2019 Fall Under Graduate FEIT UIF =

== Strategy 1- Integrative Calendar 'My Uni' ==
<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whilst researching the different I&E programs, courses, funding opportunities and events offered at university we were surprised that so many students in our interviews had highlighted that there are not many avenues to pursue innovation in their experience at UTS other than in class. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We have developed an Integrative Calendar based platform for students to Subscribe to different filter of I&E Events, programs, competitions and other opportunities to develop their I&E skills and develop their own ideas. The filter that students select and subscribe to will automatically sync with the application calendar and the students class schedule. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This platform will funnel all events ranging from various university groups such as UTS Startups, University Societies, University Facult<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ies and UTS Careers who all run events and programs relevant to students. To ensure this strategy is executable, these entities must all be contacted to provide information for their events and programs. Furthermore, an automatic channel should be developed for these entities to funnel in their programs automatically rather than manually. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This ‘My Uni’ App will also be included in the ‘UTS’ Application that has been launched by the university containing direct access to student enrollment pages, class timetables, grade centres and Exam information. This will ensure that a greater amount of students will have access to the application and will view it as a legitimate tool supported by the university. <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This application, which will increase student participation in I&E, will stimulate growth in such events and programs due to the student demand and interest. This will further develop the I&E canvas at university as well as enrich the environment, I&E culture and student perception of I&E.<div> </div>

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
<div> </div>
== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T12:45:27Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

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= 2019 Fall Under Graduate FEIT UIF =

== Strategy 1- Integrative Calendar 'My Uni' ==

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
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== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
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<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
<div> </div>
== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T12:44:48Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

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= 2019 Fall Under Graduate UIF =

== Strategy 1- Integrative Calendar 'My Uni' ==

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
<div> </div>
== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T12:40:44Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

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= 2019 Fall Under Graduate UIF =

== Strategy 1 ==

== Strategy 2 ==

== Strategy 3 ==

== Strategy 4 ==

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
<div> </div>
== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
</ul>
<div> </div>
== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

2019-10-03T12:40:02Z

SienaReynolds:

== Overview ==

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= 2019 Fall Under Graduate UIF =

= 2018 Fall UIF's  =

== '''Strategy 1 - Campus Quest ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was noticed during research was that there was such a vast array of opportunities available to students within the sphere of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. What we also found was that there was limited knowledge amongst students about these opportunities and as a result less than desirable engagement. Identifying this as an issue and an opportunity to make an impact, the idea for Campus Quest was borne. Campus Quest is a virtual world that is aimed at encouraging engagement between students and the wider I&E university ecosystem. Students (referred to as players) enter the virtual world through a smartphone or tablet. From there they are able to create a customizable Avatar and are asked to attribute them with skills that reflect their own skills in the real world. Students, societies, faculties and teams can use the virtual world to connect and collaborate on projects and tasks. Players also have access to real time information on opportunities, classes, workshops and more with a focus in multi disciplinary collaboration in innovation and entrepreneurship.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas will oversee the development of this project. This idea will require a large amount of University involvement, funding and support. Also involved will be a large amount of software development, with the potential to engage software and IT students within the University to assist on development of the virtual world. The idea will be to quickly develop a minimum viable product (e.g. Beta version) to be able to test as quickly as possible. There should be a strong focus on gathering as much feedback as possible in order to develop further iterations. Ideally the beta version should be completed within a 6 month period with major development iterations to continue for the next couple of years.
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== '''Strategy 2 - Hall Of Fame'''  ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All across campus students are incessantly creating and contributing to very successful projects, yet are still left unseen or unappreciated for their efforts. We believe that we can meaningfully redefine ‘empty spots’ around campus that are not being used in the most efficient way, by instead displaying projects and materials from other students as a tool for motivation, engagement and a guide as to how students can go above and beyond and indulge in the creative experience beyond their degree. Mary Anne Radmacher once said ‘<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.’ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 

Jacob, will primarily be incharge of this project, with assistance from the other UIF’s. In order for this strategic plan to be successfully implemented on campus, he would potentially need the support of the university as well as students who are willing to contribute and display their achievements.
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== '''Strategy 3 - Rethink How We Learn  ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through conducting interviews and facilitating conversations with peers on campus we have come across typical gaps around the whole idea of ‘Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. There is this large stigma around what ‘design thinking’, ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ really means. With many individuals left questioning ‘why innovation?’ and ‘what does it achieve?’ the questions only accumulate from there. This has therefore allowed us to actively strive for solutions to mitigate the misconstrued perception students have of I&E. The aim is to adopt innovation within our curriculum. We have an array of extracurricular programs centered around design thinking, but why stop there why not push for innovation within the classrooms, to truly showcase to students the importance of I&E in shaping our every so rapidly altering future.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kritika will be overseeing the movement on this project with the assistance of other UIF’s alongside faculty and possibly innovation incubators on campus namely UTS StartUps. The goal would be to ideally begin these movements at a pilot stage, and test the reaction from both staff and students as well as observe the effectiveness of such changes upon both the individuals morale and academic chart. Initially we wanted this project to be spread across UTS, across various faculties (including non-traditional faculties that are still underrepresented for innovation namely Nursing) this was to promote interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. However, as we begun prototyping and realistically assessing the feasibility of such a large movement, we established that it would be best to begun this plan on one faculty assess the reactions and then roll out to other potential faculties.

== '''Strategy 4 - UTS StartUps in Classrooms ''' ==

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To bring UTS StartUps to the classroom, we will need to be in contact with members of UTS StartUps and Subject Coordinators to ensure that the collaboration has a smooth transition. Work will be required to make sure that UTS StartUps will be incorporated into variety of subjects, eventually across several disciplines, while not being repetitive. Students will see how innovation and entrepreneurship begins and that it doesn’t just end when the subject does.

Georgia will be in charge, striving for these objectives and incorporating the following tactics:
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<li>Create a better link between faculty, faculty subject coordinators, and UTS StartUps</li>
<li>Find areas where I&E can be incorporated/are already incorporated and slot UTS StartUps into these areas</li>
<li>Monitor Student engagement with UTS StartUps</li>
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== ==

= 2017 Spring UIF's  =

== '''Strategy #1 Creation of an innovation space''' ==

Recently, UTS has begun encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship around campus, made evident by starting two team in the University Innovation Fellows program. Created by the previous and new candidate UIF’s at UTS, this strategy aims to provide a place to facilitate innovation collaboration and teamwork for students. Currently this strategy is already off the ground and we have already pitched our ideas to the heads of the Engineering and IT faculty and they are more than enthusiastic with our idea.

=== Milestone 1: Initial Stakeholder meeting - Completed ===

What got our project started was when the heads of the Engineering and IT Faculty emailed us expressing interest in re-purposing a previously unused space in the Engineering and IT building.

=== Milestone 2: Idea Pitch - Completed ===

Two weeks from our initial stakeholder meeting, we re-scheduled a meeting with the faculty leaders to pitch our ideas. We generated three ideas for our innovation space which had varying levels of creativity and many different features. We gained valuable insigth from the faculty leaders, as they provided many thoughts and opinions on what they thought would work and what was too far out there to be practicle.

=== Milestone 3: Investor Pitch - Completed ===

To provide funding for the room, the faculty leaders had a potential investor lined up who was interested to know what kind of opportunities this space could provide for students. We had a short meeting with the investor where we gave him a summarised version of our three pitches and explained why this un used space should be re purposed. Over all the investor had a positive opinion of our ideas and even had his ideas and suggestions to improve our ideas.

=== Milestone 4:  Project Follow Up – Planned Feb 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to discuss potential strategies to take our ideas to the final stages and eventually turn the innovation space from an idea into a reality.

=== Milestone 5: Working with architects or designers – Planned March 2018 ===

In this milestone we aim to create a design for the final product by working architects and designers. We aim to have a professional looking design that will be enticing to students as well as serve their practical needs for innovation and collaboration.

=== Milestone 6: Construction - Planned April 2018 ===

For the construction of our space we aim for it to take as little time as possible, to minimise disturbance for the students, with the construction taking place outside of peak university times.

=== Milestone 7: Grand opening - Planned July 2018 ===

In this milestone we intend to open our innovation space to the students. It is very rare to see new and interesting spaces open from existing spaces inside UTS, so we aim to have an awesome opening ceremony.

== Strategy #2 Formal Recognition of student involvement in extra-curricular activities ==

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that a lot of students were extremely unengaged with extra-curricular acitivites, were intidimated to be involved, were not aware of opportunities or were wanting to be involved but didn't have the belief they were capable enough. Many students would go to class and go back home or to work. As well as this, a lot of students also felt that they were unable to differentiate themselves when applyng for a job and felt that the only way to do so was through extra-currcular activiites, however, communicating their involvements was extremely difficult when integrating it in their CV. 

By combining these 2 issues, we were able to ideate a solution to incentivise students to become even more engaged with university life outside of classes. This resulted in the idea to implement and recognise students’ involvement formally in their academic transcript to show employer's a student's involvement during their course of their degree.

As a result of this, students would feel the need to beomce involved in university to help distinguish themselves from others when seeking a job and feel rewarded for doing so.

'''The Plan:'''

=== Milstone 1: ===

We would begin speaking to employer's about what they seek when hiring people. We would conduct an empathy interview about students and the hiring process, and how extra-currcular activities could be implement when going through the job application process.

=== Milestone 2: ===

We would speak to the Faculty of Engineering and IT about the demands of industry when it comes to job application, and provide them a list of reccomendations that industry expect from universities in regards to student exmployment. 

=== Milestone 3: ===

We would then get students to voice their concerns to Faculty about the needs of formal recognition in the Academic Transcript and then being to work closely with Faculty to being integrating this system. 

=== Milestone 4: ===

After this, a checklist would be created to ensure that extra-curricular activities are monitored and thoroughly examined to give students opportunities to have these involvements formalised in their transcript. 

=== Milestone 5: ===

Implement a IT system to ensure the smooth running of the documentation and recording of student involvement at UTS.

=== Milestone 6: ===

Announce the creation of the new section of the Academic Transcript.

== Strategy #3 - Social Events to Break Down Faculty Separations ==

When interviewing students from various degree backgrounds, it was often evident that rarely interacted with students who were apart of a different faculty to themselves. In many occasions, they barely interacted with people outside of their own course. We have often seen that students who know more people in a cross disciplined environment often get involved with a much grander range of activities and therefore enjoy their university experience more.

=== Tactic #1 - Run innovation workshops for cross faculty students to encourage innovation and meeting of friends ===

A continual aim of the UIFs at UTS has been to foster innovation and promote student engagement at our uni. We are modifying it slightly so that it is no so much as a strategy and instead making it more of a goal we will achieve by doing other activities. In this case we are getting there by bringing together students from a range of backgrounds and using their different skills so that they work on the theme that we have for that particular workshop.

=== Tactic #2 - Run social events that are not discipline specific ===

We have found during our empathy work that students are most likely not to go to an event because they do not know any other people who will be going. A good way to overcome this first hurdle is with social activites as these are often vary popular and can be used to familiarise people with the cohort they could be working with for a rnage of other events.

This then means that we will be able to have a much larger audience to promote our events to, along with the change that people will be interacting with students not apart of their usual friend group.

=== Tactic #3 - Host uni wide hackathons to get people involved ===

This tactic follows on from tactic #2 as students who have become familar with us as a staple of uni life. This tactic will begin to integrate the uni courses with the social side of the university. The innovation methods that we have discussed with the group can be integrated with real life problems cementing the knowledge they learn at uni as an actual useful thing to have. It will also expose students to the grander scheme of what their knowledge can be used for.

=== Milestone #1 - Host a networking event at which there is no more than 35% of students from a particular faculty ===

Due to the make up of the university a reasonable goal of faculty mix would be around 35%, this would allow for the slightly larger faculties in the universities, while still making sure that we have an almost equal mix of backgrounds across the university.

=== Milsestone #2 - Expland the UIF program at UTS outside of the Engineering Faculty ===

Currently all UIF program at UTS is hosted from the engineering faculty. This has been fantastic at the start, but it would be a true step forward to expand this to other faculties around the university as to gain different perspectivies and new ideas.

=== Milestone #3 - Make orientation a uni wide event with activites for all students. ===

One of the most influential times at university is in the first week of the first year of a student's university life. Here many friends are made and perspectives are grown. At the moment most, if not all introduction sessions are run on a faculty level with many being dealt with in cohort and major groups. By growing this so that the activities include a range of different backgrouds the university would be in a much better position to host cross disciplines events and grow strengths as the encouragement to take classes out of a specific faculty would come from the students.

=== Milestone #4 - commence uni subjects that are not tied to one particular faculty ===

The final milestone after the range of improvements would be for the uni to introduce subjects that were not directly related to any specific faculty and instead were based around the aim of solving real life problems. Here students would come from a range of backgrounds and would be able solve issues in a challenge based learning environment. This would fit in well with the graduate attributes that UTS promotes and also would prepare students for real life work.

Ultimately the aim is to connect current communities on campus and allowing new students to find ways to get involved. This strategy hopes to influence the success of other strategies being implemented at the University.

== Strategy #4 - Creating a Cohesive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Environment ==

UTS is a large university with approximately 45,000 students currently enrolled. As a result, the UTS campus is vast and spread out over a large geographical area. As each building is home to a specific faculty, this creates a sense of pride and belonging within each faculty however it can also contribute to a feeling of disassociation with the rest of the university. This is especially true in the case of the innovation building which most students are completely unaware of.

After interviewing several students from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, we could not find a single student who was aware of the existence of this innovation building where so many of UTS' I&E programs take place. Through our own experiences at UTS, we have observed a rift between the students who frequently engage in I&E activities and those who do not. After speaking with students, most told us that they would have gotten involved in these activities had they known about them. From these discussions coupled with our own experiences, we believe the main cause of this is poor advertising and the physical isolation of I&E programs and initiatives within the innovation building.

Instead of perpetuating an environment in which students are forced to seek out I&E programs and events themselves, we believe the solution to this problem is to bring small I&E experiences into the everyday life of the UTS student. We are still investigating how best to do this with ongoing ideation, prototyping, and feedback.

=== Milestone #1 - Widespread I&E Advertising Across Campus ===

In order to increase studnet awareness of the current I&E offerings around UTS. We want to expand the advertising efforts of these programs so that they aren't aimed solely at those who are already involved in I&E. Currently, the majority of I&E advertising can be found around our innovation building and is much more scarce around the rest of the campus.

=== Milestone #2 - Integration of I&E Activities into University Wide Events ===

By integrating I&E activities into events like Open Day, we can create a culture of innovation amongst the future students of UTS. If we keep on track, by the time they get here there will be incresed opportunity and awareness to satisfy the needs of this culture.

=== Milestone #3 - Student I&E Ambassadors from Each Faculty ===

We aim to form teams of I&E ambassadors from across the university campus. These ambassadors would help us to disseminate information regarding I&E events and offerings while also educating students in I&E tools and techniques. As these teams grow and develop, we hope to create new I&E offerings with their help.

=== Milestone #4 - Innovation Islands Across Campus ===

Once a culture has been developed across the university, our goal is to create physical innovation islands in thoroughfares across the university. These islands would have information on I&E offerings, examples of past student creations, and student I&E ambassadors to teach new skills and answer questions.

=== Milestone #5 - Innovation Spaces Across Campus ===

As an extension to the innovation islands, we hope to create dedicated innovation spaces in each building at UTS. These spaces would originally be used for extra curricular activities and events relating to I&E however we hope that over time they could be used for subjects in which a component of I&E can be taught.

= Related Links =

UTS Campus Overview

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney]

UTS Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au https://www.uts.edu.au]

UTS Hatchery Home Page:

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/opportunities/hatchery/overview]

UTS FaceBook Page:

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ https://www.facebook.com/UTSFEIT/]

Autumn (Fall) 2018 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Varanian]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]

Spring 2018 UIF:

[[Alastair Bate|Alastair Bate]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:JamesRyan James Ryan]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]

Spring 2017 UIF:

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:47:45Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

 UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

 Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

BCII Connect

Biomedical Engineering Society

Business Society

Enactus

Engineering Society

HIVE Society

Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

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[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:47:24Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

 UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

 Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

*[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases
*[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

BCII Connect

Biomedical Engineering Society

Business Society

Enactus

Engineering Society

HIVE Society

Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:46:08Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

 UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

 Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

*[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases
*[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses
*[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

*BCII Connect
*Biomedical Engineering Society
*Business Society
*Enactus
*Engineering Society
*HIVE Society
*Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:45:13Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

*BCII Connect
*Biomedical Engineering Society
*Business Society
*Enactus
*Engineering Society
*HIVE Society
*Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

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[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:44:44Z

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[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

*BCII Connect
*Biomedical Engineering Society
*Business Society
*Enactus
*Engineering Society
*HIVE Society
*Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:44:31Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

*Contract research for strategic research expertise
*Collaborative research partnerships
*Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

*BCII Connect
*Biomedical Engineering Society
*Business Society
*Enactus
*Engineering Society
*HIVE Society
*Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T23:44:07Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==

[https://www.uts.edu.au The University of Technology Sydney] (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydney's tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings. UTS jumped almost 200 places in the Times Higher Education rankings over the last seven years (2012-2019) and remains the number one young university (under 50) in Australia. UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through its 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

=== UTS Values ===

UTS is led by five distinct values that shape the vision and strategy of the university:

'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology.

'''Engage''' and collaborate with students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.

'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, challenge and make a difference.

'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour.

'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future.

=== Vision 2027 ===

Launched in 2017, [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-2027-strategy UTS’ Vision 2027] seeks to catalyze a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship with the university The goals encourage collaboration and creativity in social justice and accessibility; responsible leadership; and excellence in indigenous higher education and research. Students are encouraged to be flexible and resilient through critical thinking, access to impactful learning and transdisciplinary thinking. Students, staff, professionals and partners are connected in through innovation to deliver excellent research with impact through eight university-wide goals.

Lifetime learning Personal learning experience Digital partners New ways of working Precinct, community, partnerships Connected research International profile Social change

In collaboration with the launch of Vision 2027, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise - Professor Glenn Wightwick was appointed to support innovation and connection throughout the university with a focus on entrepreneurship and external engagement. Professor Wightwick oversees the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/working-uts Corporate Relations Centre], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship Innovation and Entrepreneurship] portfolio and [http://2ser.com/ 2SER] radio/podcast platform.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===

As a key component of Vision 2027 student innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) is seen as critical to the success of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage with I&E principles. UTS recognizes eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepreneurship as follows:

These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the university.

[[File:Startnet graphic.png]]

=== Academic Pathways - learning.futures ===

Academically, students at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels can engage with a host of subjects, majors, content and degree pathways. Innovative programs such as the [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/postgraduate-degrees MBAe] – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; [https://www.uts.edu.au/node/275526 Honours in Entrepreneurship]; and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/bachelor-degrees Bachelor of Creative Intelligence] all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E.

Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning - [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/uts-model-learning/what-students-learn the learning.futures] strategy which promotes practice-oriented education for a global workforce through research-inspired and integrated learning.

Students can also access online and open source courses including [https://open.uts.edu.au/entrepreneurship.html ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/designingoutproblems.html ‘Designing Out Problems’]. One third of UTS students will receive formal innovation and entrepreneurship training in their coursework alongside specific entrepreneurship support. UTS fosters I&E across the nine university faculties and through a variety of unique centres/institutes as highlighted below.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3763 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33086 UTS Business School]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3757 Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3760 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3764 Faculty of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/3765 Faculty of Law]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/2982 Faculty of Science]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/212981 Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/33651 Graduate School of Health]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/266541 Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/35451 Institute for Public Policy and Governance]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/5023 Institute for Sustainable Future]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/node/248346 Connected Intelligence Centre]

=== Cultural Pathways - Fostering entrepreneurship ===

Beyond the academic pathways, UTS fosters a culture of creativity through the UTS Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit. This unit seeks to bridge research and entrepreneurship through a strong focus on research commercialization. The unit sits physically next to the business school and offers startup spaces to support hatchling entrepreneurs. The I&E unit supports with [https://www.uts.edu.au/startup-internships internships]; short courses and [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/uts-entrepreneurship toolkits] (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/entrepreneurialentrepreneurial student societies] and industry connection opportunities ([https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/programs-and-opportunities/hackathons hackathons], workshops, camps and mentorship).

The core of the unit is [https://www.uts.edu.au/uts-startups UTS Startups], an incubator focused on mentoring and supporting students and recent alumni with startups. UTS Startups is open to students from all faculties and degree types, but most students come from Engineering and IT as well as Business. This is supported by recent research which found that 44% of UTS undergraduate students (2018) believe that they are likely or very likely to join a start-up and 34% state that they are likely or very likely to start a business.The following chart highlights the growing culture of embedding entrepreneurship culture within universities in Australia in an effort to support budding entrepreneurship in their innovative ideas. There are over 160 incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and therefore UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

As a component of the 2027 Vision, UTS is committed to supporting staff with research and learning with a goal of seamless, personalized and relevant education. While staff are also encouraged to engage with industry partners and through innovative research there are fewer resources for startups and entrepreneurship for faculty. Where students (undergraduate and postgraduate) own their own Intellectual Property (IP) from research projects, IP generated by faculty members belongs to the university.

UTS Startups allows faculty to participate if one member of the team is a student. This limits opportunities for external innovation. However, there is a significant focus on encouraging innovation in the classroom environment and through industry partnerships. Opportunities to enhance learner experience (LX) and support academics in the transition to digital learning platforms such as the [https://futures.uts.edu.au/events/ LX.lab], [https://lx.uts.edu.au/futures/ futures blog] and online support platforms. These resources are designed to help academics build knowledge and confidence within the learning.futures mandate. Successful industry partnerships are well recognized across the university and celebrated through technology transfer, and licensing opportunities.

== Actively Supporting the Technology Transfer ==

UTS supports technology transfer in two distinct pathways: students and projects/faculty. Students are encouraged to commercialize research through UTS Startups for work produced independently. Project work by faculty members and researchers is promoted for technology transfer to industry through Intellectual Property (IP) licensing or collaborative agreements in health, data science, sustainability, social futures, and future work and industry. Not all transfers have been technology based and many are the support of policy or advocacy work to the public sector and civil society.

UTS belongs to the [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/overview#ip-principles Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN)]and is guided by ATN principles of IP which seek transparent, flexible and user-friendly systems that encourage a range of IP models. These principles actively encourage research that can be commercialized by industry, government and community groups through publicly available policies and templates. The ATN promotes leadership by industry partners throughout the process of technology transfer. For IP with significant commercial value and a clear route to market UTS directly seeks to form a startup with relevant stakeholders or to find potential licensees. However for other IP, UTS promotes ‘Easy Access IP’ which supports the licensing of research with a single page agreement.

Successful commercialization and information transfer ideas from UTS include:

[http://www.mrcf.com.au/company/view/auspherix Auspherix]- an innovative pharmaceutical company to explore drugs to treat antibiotic resistant infections

[https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/ip-and-commercialisation/uts-ip-portfolio/health-12 Helmedix] - a helminth-based approach to treat autoimmune diseases

[https://sabreautonomous.com.au/ Sabre Autonomous Solutions] - an autonomous grit-blasting robot to clean and prepare steel, stone and concrete in building projects

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-free-access-legal-database-uts-austlii.pdf AustLII] - a comprehensive online, open access and free database of Australian legal information

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-manuka-honey-treatment-for-chronic-wounds-uts-i3.pdf Honey Treatment] - an approach to chronic wound treatment through Manuka Honey

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-evaluating-the-impact-of-the-emsm-uts-chere.pdf Medicare Safety Net] - the design of policy to decrease out-of-pocket expenses

[https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/rio-wash-in-international-development-uts-isf.pdf Advocacy] - collaboration with the Australian government to allocate $300 million for water, sanitation and hygiene in international development

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==

=== UTS CareerHub and Internships - Showcasing Innovation ===

UTS CareerHub helps to link graduating students to industry through ongoing recruitment and an annual [https://studentshowcase.uts.edu.au/ student showcase] across facilities and degrees. The showcase seeks to highlight creative and innovative skill sets of students at UTS for future industry engagements and often coming from the Design and Transdisciplinary Innovation disciplines at UTS. Workforce development is a key priority of industry and UTS seeks to develop well-rounded, creative and critical thinkers that are ready for industry.

=== Industry Research - Connecting Innovation ===

Embedded in UTS’ 2027 vision, the university is seeking to research “exemplified by excellence, impact, engagement with global partners, and innovative collaborations that transcend disciplinary and professional boundaries.” The research aims to have economic, cultural, and social impact through mult- and trans-disciplinary approaches leveraging and sustaining partnerships with business, government and civil society. Connected research can occur in three ways:

Contract research for strategic research expertise

Collaborative research partnerships

Consulting services through accessUTS

Collaborative projects such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/our-research/institute-sustainable-futures/news/innovative-future-sydney the Innovative Future of Sydney Trains Customer Service] are celebrated through the annual UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence through Collaboration or Partnership Award. UTS has partnerships with small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies, local, state, federal and international government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charities.

=== Industry Shaping - University Societies ===

UTS’s union ‘ACTIVATE’ facilities over 130 [https://activateuts.com.au/clubs Student Societies] from all faculties of the university. Many societies focus on connecting students to Industry by running events, hackathons, panels, networking evenings and site tours.

These student-led events, facilitated and sponsored by the university provide an alternate method to build Industry contacts to further pursue their career. The following societies are highly involved with Industry:

*BCII Connect
*Biomedical Engineering Society
*Business Society
*Enactus
*Engineering Society
*HIVE Society
*Women in Business

=== Industry Shaping - Design Studios ===

The university aims to encourage a number of students to be exposed to a number of projects that are generally implemented in an industry setting. In particular, the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) incorporate mandatory subjects in their course that encourages students to participate in team projects. This is where they have the opportunity to utilise the theoretical skills they have learned in their technical subjects and apply it to real-world projects.

The following subjects provide some examples of FEIT offers to its students that enables students to work collaboratively in a team:

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41093.html Software Engineering Studio 1A]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48600.html Mechanical Design 1]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48240.html Design and Innovation Fundamentals]

[http://www.handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/48230.html Engineering Communications]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/details/26100.html Integrating Business Perspective]

[http://handbook.uts.edu.au/subjects/41162.html Fundamentals of of Biomedical Engineering Studio A]

=== Industry Shaping - Hackathons and Case Study Sprints ===

UTS is very proactive in organising design sprints for students. These design based innovation events are mentored by industry professionals, sponsored by corporate companies and offer cash and investment prizes for students to develop their ‘end product or system’ designed during the hackathon.

These hackathons not only stimulate innovation in the students, it develops and grows innovation in the Industries that the hackathon is partnered with.

The following is a list of selected Industry based Hackathons run at UTS in the last 2 months that cross university disciplines.

[https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-law/events/breakinglaw-hackathon KWM #breakinglaw Hackathon]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/startup-kickstarter-wins-govhack Gov Hack]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/news/budding-founders-take-uts-womens-startup Startup Weekend]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/current-students/current-students-information-uts-business-school/prizes-awards-and-competitions-7 IBISWorld 3P Innovation Competition]

=== Industry Shaping - Influencing Innovation ===

A final source of UTS’ culture of innovation for industry collaboration comes from the 2SER radio and podcasts. The university's radio hosts podcasts focusing on futures thinking across sectors, social justice, history and culture.

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-business-futures Think: Business Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-digital-futures Think: Digital Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/think-sustainability Think: Sustainability podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/equal-futures-stories-of-women-in-stemm-at-uts Equal Futures podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/after-metoo-stories-of-social-change After #MeToo podcast]

[https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/glamcity GLAMcity podcast]

== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

UTS’s strategic location supports the engagement with local and regional economic efforts within the precinct (Pyrmont and Ultimo), city of Sydney, region of NSW and beyond. While the university does not have a specific economic development office, the precinct-focus in UTS’ Vision 2027 speaks to the desire for local economic development. The university engages with the Greater Sydney Commission, precinct task forces, community groups, and the City of Sydney to connect with ongoing development work both for economic and philanthropic purposes. Beyond UTS’ engagement in entrepreneurship, technology transfer and industry collaboration in the economic development arena, such development has physical, and virtual aspects.

=== Virtual Spaces ===

Leveraging the learning.futures approach of education, UTS has a strong movement towards virtual learning and collaboration spaces. This opens opportunities for local and regional collaboration through [https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/industry-partnerships/podcasts podcasts] and [https://open.uts.edu.au/index.html open source courses].

=== Physical Spaces ===

Physical spaces in UTS function as catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship and are supported by over 1 billion dollars of recent infrastructure investment. Vision2027 envisions the UTS campus and facilities as spaces for public and community engagement as highlighted in the following four strategic outcomes:

Build Australia’s first [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/indigenous-residential-college Indigenous Residential College] to support Indigenous student participation and success in higher education.

Expand innovation spaces such as [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena], [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab] to be more accessible to industry partners, civil society and government.

Develop co-working spaces in the tech precinct and UTS facilities in Botany and Western Sydney.

Design local engagements across Sydney that support lifelong learning.

== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

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Fellow:Siena Reynolds

2019-09-26T13:51:58Z

SienaReynolds:

Siena is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently in her third year studying Biomedical Engineering at the [http://universityinnovation.org/University%20of%20Technology%20Sydney University of Technology Sydney].  She aspires to apply her knowledge of Human physiology and technology innovatively to improve the human experience. 

Siena is the President of the UTS Engineering Society, being elected for a one year term from 2018-2019. As President her goal is to create a supportive community for Engineering students that enhances members professional skills, industry network, practicle engineering skills, social circle and mental wellbeing. 

Siena has also studied abroad at TECNUN, the Engineering Faculty of the University of Navarre in San Sebastian Spain for a Summer Robotics course. 

As she gains more experience in engineering within Australia and abroad, Siena hopes to inspire more females to undertake Engineering and STEM studies. She has been an Inspirational speaker at high schools across Sydney and at UTS Open Days as a volunteer for the Women in Engineering and IT department since her first semester at UTS in 2017.

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School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:27:14Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Cultral Pathways Fostering Entrepreneurship  ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses

There are over 160 Incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and less acessible to UTS students. As such UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community. [[File:UTS LX.JPG|thumb]]
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:26:21Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Cultral Pathways Fostering Entrepreneurship  ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses

There are over 160 Incubators, accelerators and pre-accelerators in Australia, however these remain expensive and less acessible to UTS students. As such UTS seeks to promote a culture of entrepreneurship by embedding such thinking in coursework and existing degree programs alongside the startup community. 
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.[[File:UTS LX.JPG|thumb]]

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

File:UTS LX.JPG

2019-09-26T13:25:43Z

SienaReynolds:

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:22:46Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Cultral Pathways Fostering Entrepreneurship  ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:19:03Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:18:36Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== ===

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:17:39Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Cultral Pathways of Fostering Entrepreneurship ===

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:15:58Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== UTS StartNet Map ===
These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:14:58Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].These pathways are supported by a wider culture of innovation that encourages students to convert creativity in entrepreneurial endeavors. The following UTS StartNet Map explores how entrepreneurial programs and culture are found across several faculties in the univeristy with a specific emphasis on the business school. [[File:Uts net.png]]

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Joshua_Keegan Joshua Keegan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

File:Uts net.png

2019-09-26T13:11:10Z

SienaReynolds:

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:09:46Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degrees and Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:09:18Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects 
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:08:57Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects within faculties.
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T13:06:56Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.As a key component of Vision 2027, student innovation and entrepeneurship is seen as critical to the sucess of students and the university with over 90 distinct subjects that engage I&E principles. UTS recognises eight academic pathways where students can interact with innovation and entrepeneurship as follow. 
*Entrepreneurial Subjects within faculties.
*Sub-Majors
*Online Entrepeneurship Content
*Bachelor Degrees
*Postgraduate Degrees
*Diplomas and Certificates
*Business Practice Unit Short Courses
*International Opportunities
The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].

=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:56:39Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage '''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:56:08Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage''''''Empower''' staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver''' obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain''' local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:55:32Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== UTS Values ==

UTS is lead by five distinct vlaues that shape the vision and strategy of the university: Discover, Engage, Empower, Deliver and Sustain. 

*'''Discover''' and share new knowledge and new ways to lead through teaching, research, intellectual debate and use of technology. 
*'''Engage'''and collaborate with across students, alumni, partners, professions and communities locally and internationally.
*'''Empower'''staff and students to grow, contribute, challenge and make a difference.
*'''Deliver'''obligations to staff, students, partners and communities while maintaining high standards and ethical behaviour. 
*'''Sustain'''local and global environment, organisational health and the ability to create a positive and viable future. 


== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:50:06Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.=UTS Values= 

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:48:43Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in Sydneys tech precinct in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:47:12Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.UTS is known as a world leader in transdiciplinary approaches and sustainable futures thinking, with over 45,000 students and almost 4,000 staff. An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.

== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:41:41Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:41:18Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| [[Jasminadang|Jasminadang]]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:40:54Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
|
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| [[Jasminadang|Jasminadang]]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
| Satya Pranavi Gangapuri
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:39:39Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 Business'''
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| Link you name to your wiki page
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| 
| Joshua Keegan
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| 
| Jasmina Dang
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| 
| Satya Pranavi Gangapuri
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Technology Sydney

2019-09-26T12:38:15Z

SienaReynolds:

[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="width: 500px;"
|-
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| [[SienaReynolds|SienaReynolds]] 
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| Joshua Keegan
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| Jasmina Dang
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| Satya Pranavi Gangapuri
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
<div> </div>
 

[[Category:Universities]]

User:SienaReynolds

2019-09-26T12:30:01Z

SienaReynolds:

= Siena Reynolds =

Siena is a University Innovation Fellow and is currently in her third year studying Biomedical Engineering at the [[University of Technology Sydney|University of Technology Sydney]].  She aspires to apply her knowledge of Human physiology and technology innovatively to improve the human experience. 

Siena is the President of the UTS Engineering Society, being elected for a one year term from 2018-2019. As President her goal is to create a supportive community for Engineering students that enhances members professional skills, industry network, practicle engineering skills, social circle and mental wellbeing. 

Siena has also studied abroad at TECNUN, the Engineering Faculty of the University of Navarre in San Sebastian Spain for a Summer Robotics course. 

As she gains more experience in engineering within Australia and abroad, Siena hopes to inspire more females to undertake Engineering and STEM studies. She has been an Inspirational speaker at high schools across Sydney and at UTS Open Days as a volunteer for the Women in Engineering and IT department since her first semester at UTS in 2017.

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[[File:UTS Cover.jpg|center|University of Technology Sydney - Faculty of Engineering and IT]]

== Overview ==
The [https://www.uts.edu.au/ University of Technology Sydney (UTS)] was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. A modern focus and a drive for innovation has enabled UTS to quickly climb global rankings, currently ranked number one in ''Times Higher Education'' top 100 universities under 50. With an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.An industry focus with modern courses and state-of-the-art equipment has enabled its degrees and students continue to become more renounced and respected worldwide. UTS has shown a passion to continue this movement through it's 1 Billion dollar investment to fundamentally change the way that teaching, learning and research is delivered.
== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

=== Degree Programs ===
UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explores the foundations of innovation and entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of faculties gain access to the various  forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects. The University takes conscious measures to ensure students have access to the highly demanding I&E mindsets that the wider society urges for. These faculties include:
*Engineering and Information Technology
*Business
*Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
*Design, Architecture and Building
*Arts and Social Sciences
*Institute for Sustinable Futures
*Science
*Law
More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].
=== Entrepreneurship Culture ===
UTS is located in Ultimo which is one of the most heavily populated Start-Up areas in Australia. Leveraging this, It has become one of the most innovative and entrepreneurial campuses in Australia. There are various programs implemented by UTS to encourage student entrepreneurship including:
*UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup
*Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, venture day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups
*Student Run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect
*Hackathons & Competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses
Each of these programs are trans-disciplinary, with no limitations or restrictions to certain faculties, degree types or year levels. The culmination of each of these has enabled UTS to become an active player in the Australian Start-Up Community. Helping to grow and support the culture, values and organisations within the Australian start-up ecosystem.Over the past three years, UTS has also introduced Bachelor and Postgraduate degrees that directly target the core fundamentals of high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship; leading-edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world. A direct industry demand has contributed to the successful implementation of such a vast and diversified portfolio that allows students to combine their core degree (e.g. Business, Engineering) with an innovational based degree.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
UTS is denoted as the number 1 Young University in Australia. This title comes from the conscientious commitment the university employs in adopting innovation and improving the quality of education and educational experience for both its students and its wider faculty and staff. UTS strives for innovation and entrepreneurship and this is seen through the movement in the faculty itself.UTS has its own Entrepreneurship and Innovation faculty, that constantly seeks for ways to encourage entrepreneurial mindsets.
'''Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDi)'''
Over the years, UTS has gradually implemented a range of course work within subjects focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship to help students gain an in-depth understanding of these concepts. UTS has also implemented faculty targets to ensure that this momentum continues across all levels of the internal organisation. The univeristy has a dedicated department working on fostering trans-diciplinary innovation. The faculty runs courses such as:
*Bachelor of Creative Intellegence & Innovation (BCII)
*Bachelor of Technology & Innovation (BTI)
*Masters of Data Science & Innovation
*Masters of Business Adminstration in Entrepreneurship, and many others
These courses are designed to equip students with the diverse skills necessary to thrive in a future full of unknowns. In these courses, students are placed into high pressure situations with limited time frames and diverse teams where they are forced to experiment and learn from their mistakes. This leaves academics to take on the role of mentor as students are encouraged to not only develop creative solutions, but also to interpret the brief itself in interesting and differnet ways.
== Opportunities at UTS ==
UTS has provided a huge range of different opportunities to help students grow and develop their passion for both Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These include,Hackathon Weekends such as:
*Project Pitch (Weekend Long Competition to create, test and launch Start-Ups, with over $10,000 in prize money)
*3P Competition (Competition run by the Business Faculty focusing on People, Planet & Profit with over $20,000 in prize money)
Entrepreneurial Based Student Societies Including,
*Australian Collaborative Entrepreneurial Society (ACES) Focused on creating Entrepreneurship activities for students.
*BCII Connect, a student society dedicated to creating a community for and around students of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation.

== Facilitating University - Industry Collaboration ==
UTS has a strong relationship with its industry sponsors. The freshly introduced Bachelor of Technology and Innovation degree launched in 2017 was a result of high industry demand. UTS is constantly coupling up with their partners to host innovation and enter centered.UTS has its own on-campus start-up incubator, a founding partnership with Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, through which individuals have the opportunity to get in touch and communicate with other like minded individuals as well as kickstart their startup ambitions. UTS also effectively collaborates with industry partnership to contribute to the wider growth of its students. This year UTS has introduced an internship program with its partners EnergyLab, Fishburners and Microsoft to offer 20 students internships in the startup sector, to essentially give these proactive individuals an insight into the startup environment and help them form those entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets in a more practical setting whilst also incentivise them by contributing their achievements as credit points towards their university degree.  Alongside the university also offers Scholarships sponsored by its partnerships namely (Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia (MTIA) specifically tailored around entrepreneurship and innovation (John Heine Memorial Foundation Scholarship in Entrepreneurial Engineering)This university also has a reputation for being an extremely practical university, focusing on and encouraging industry placements, internships and practical experience throughout courses. This focus has enabled university students to better understand the job market and get real life experience throughout their degree.
== Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts ==

'''Start-Up Successes at UTS'''
UTS’s constant support and entrepreneurial education has assisted may students develop million-dollar start-up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include:
*Cube rider, which is the first private Australian company to put satellites in space
*Wine stash, which is predicted to exceed profits of 3 million dollars during its fourth year.
*Cloud Construction, who won the 2016 Virginia Tech Challenge Pitch in the U.S. Read more about this [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/business/business-support/business-in-your-sector/key-industries/tech-startups here]
UTS has a redesigned innovation and entrepreneurship program, called UTS Startups (formally UTS Hatchery), where students can get their idea of the ground. Having partnered with Fishburners, an Australian tech startup community, students are able to bring their ideas in the real world, and bridge the gap between studying entrepreneurship and getting a startup off the ground. Read more about [http://newsroom.uts.edu.au/news/2018/07/fishburners-partnership-puts-uts-students-startup-ecosystem their partnership].On top of this, as part of UTS's [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/city-campus-master-plan/overview campus vision], several new technology labs and prototyping spaces have opened, including the [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/protospace UTS ProtoSpace], [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/data-arena/overview Data Arena] and [https://www.uts.edu.au/about/faculty-engineering-and-information-technology/tech-lab Tech Lab]. These resources will be used to not only support student startups, research projects and postgraduate study, but also give staff and students the opportunity to work with some of the latest, cutting edge technology on offer and engage in sponsored partnerships with external companies in developing the solutions of tomorrow.
== Landscape Canvas ==

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAvlyavZx8Nf0OyoldDgf1CDrqLQpN0vv-_QVt1GJss/edit?usp=sharing 2018-2019 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x_Qbm82llQjJffIheY0fgKWbJm-DvfAz1tkYfs1Q1Nw/edit#gid=0 2017-2018 Landscape Canvas]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2VFCUqoX-CR5sDqWEpmYpjifsJs8IwsRBcf_jDb3XE/edit#gid=1930134819 2016-2017 Landscape Canvas]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Technology_Sydney_Student_Priorities UTS Student Priorities]

[https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/uts-startups UTS Startups Home Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UTSEngage/ UTS Facebook Page]

[https://www.facebook.com/UIFUTS/ UTS UIF Facebook Page]

See the 2018 Autumn (Fall) UTS UIF video:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KUDvclG4M]

== '''UIF @ UTS''' ==

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|-
| '''Spring 2019 FEIT'''
| '''Autumn (Fall) 2018'''
| '''Spring 2018'''
| '''Spring 2017'''
|-
| [[SienaReynolds|S]]iena Reynolds
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nicholas_Berriman Nicholas Berriman]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Laurence_Presland Laurence Presland]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Matthew_Childs Matthew Childs]
|-
| Joshua Keegan
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Georgia_McCarthy Georgia McCarthy]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alastair_Bate Alastair Bate]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Peter_Cole Peter Cole]
|-
| Jasmina Dang
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacob_Vartanian Jacob Vartanian]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/James_Ryan James Ryan]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Irene_Hsieh Irene Hsieh]
|-
| Satya Pranavi Gangapuri
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kritika_Khanna Kritika Khanna]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Gavan_Huang Gavan Huang]
| [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Corey_Stewart Corey Stewart]
|}
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