Management
Issue No. 44 - December/January 2008
ECIC gives entrepreneur post-grads cutting edge
ECIC gives entrepreneur post-grads cutting edge Mining, Defence and Climate Change project management expertise is on offer as part of a newly upgraded academic package relevant to SA’s future needs.
Professor Noel Lindsay, Director of the University of Adelaide’s Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre says cutting-edge post-graduate studies in general project management have been expanded to include these three specialist majors highly relevant to SA’s economic development.
“Other upgraded programs in entrepreneurship and innovation, the commercialisation of science and technology and social entrepreneurship will also be rolled out in 2009,” Prof Lindsay says.
“Obviously the big ticket items are in mining, defence and climate change but we also need to encourage our entrepreneurs.
“Also important is our ability to commercialise our inventiveness and research brilliance. The commercial development of great ideas is what really drives prosperity.
“Our entrepreneurs – and the intrapreneurs who drive progress inside our companies and public sector organisations – are the ‘doers’ in our community who make progress and prosperity a reality.”
Prof Lindsay says all new post-graduate programs could be taken to the level of a Masters qualification, through stages beginning with a Graduate Certificate and progressing through Graduate Diploma.
“We also offer a four-year Applied masters option and, in some instances, it’s possible to study individual courses.”
He said the study programs had been carefully engineered to be ‘career friendly’ and typically offered ‘intensives’ over weekends, with qualifications achieved by continuous assessment rather than examinations.
“We especially understand the pressures on career
professionals and we cater for that as far as is humanly possible,” Prof Lindsay says.
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