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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 MBAe – Masters of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship; Honours in Entrepreneurship; and Bachelor of Creative Intelligence all encourage students to explore transdisciplinary approaches to I&E. Students engage in UTS’ unique model of learning 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 ‘Introduction to Entrepreneurship’ and ‘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.
=== 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 internships; short courses and toolkits (including ‘Design Thinking for Researchers’ and open access courses); entrepreneurial student societies and industry connection opportunities (hackathons, workshops, camps and mentorship). The core of the unit is 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.
== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> ==