Priorities:University of Technology Sydney Student Priorities

Overview

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Strategy #1 - Introduce a Featured Startup Company

One of the major issues uncovered during our land scape canvas was student engagement with innovation/ Entrepreneurship. We need to help show the general university population that innovation and Entrepreneurship is for everyone and it can help them in all different ways throughout their life.

To help encourage more involvement by students and therefore improve innovation at UTS, we need better advertisement strategies. We believe the students will respond well to featured start ups most likely monthly. The profile will be of current or past UTS students running start up companies

At the bottom of the advertisement there should be a QR code or website address, where students can find more information about all of the innovation programs offered by UTS. The website which lists them, should list them in stages, starting with small design thinking workshops already run at UTS to the hatchery plus. This way students will be more encouraged to take small steps and do a design thinking workshop. 

Strategy #2 - Entrepreneurship/Innovation Help Centre

UTS is already encouraging innovation and Entrepreneurship around campus. This is/will lead to the development of many student run start up companies. Student’s fees already go into the HELP centre, where students are able to get assistance for resumes and other job seeking actives.

Maybe a small portion of that money can go into a Startup help centre, where anyone wanting to do a start up company can get some general advice e.g. setting up an ABN….

Strategy #3 - Improving communication of current innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities to students.

During interviews with first year students at UTS we discovered that communication of existing innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities was lacking and potentially resulting in students not attending events or not gaining a proper understanding of the existing opportunities.

As a result we would like to identify methods for improving the communication between innovation resources and students and help connect interested students with events and activities that can help them on their entrepreneurial journeys. Our current prototyping has found that QR codes while initially seaming like a fun and interesting way for students to interact is actually seen as a hindrance and may not be fully utilised as would be expected.

We would like to trial more advertising and communication techniques such as an "innovation board" in a communal area of the university, "abstract links" that get students completing a challenge or game to gain access to a link to information or mass advertising drops using interesting mediums such as bouncy balls with links or slickers found all throughout the university.

By increasing the awareness of students about the existing programs and opportunities both on campus and the surrounding community we hope to increase the innovation and entrepreneurship culture UTS.

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