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== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== <span style="font-size:small;">Degrees and Programs </span> ===
<p style="text-align: justify;">UTS offers a range of subjects both for undergraduate and postgraduate students that explore the foundations of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. These subjects are designed in a way that students from a vast range of study areas can access to the various forms of ‘design thinking’ based subjects.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Entrepreneurial Subjects</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Sub-Majors</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Online Entrepeneurship Content</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Bachelor Degrees</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Postgraduate Degrees</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Diplomas and Certificates</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Business Practice Unit Short Courses</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">International Opportunities</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The faculties that facilitate these pathways include:</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Engineering and Information Technology</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Business</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Design, Architecture and Building</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Arts and Social Sciences</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Institute for Sustainable Futures</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Science</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Law</p><p style="text-align: justify;">More information can be found [https://www.uts.edu.au/partners-and-community/initiatives/entrepreneurship/courses-subjects-degrees/entrepreneurial here].</p>
=== <span style="font-size:small;">UTS StartNet Map </span> ===
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">[[File:Uts net.png]]</p>
=== <span style="font-size:small;">Cultural Pathways Fostering Entrepreneurship </span> ===
<p style="text-align: justify;">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:</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">UTS Startups, which is an incubator aimed at mentoring and providing support for any student or recent alumni interested in developing a startup</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Awards like UTS Startup peoples choice, Venture Day and many others are aimed at providing extra funding to standout startups</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Student-run Innovation and Entrepreneurial Societies on Campus e.g. Enactus & BCII Connect</p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;">Hackathons & competitions including Project Pitch, Code2Learn, The Hult Prize and IBISWorld 3P Competition, designed to launch competitive businesses</p>
<br/>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|frame|center]]<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">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. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">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.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
