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Curriculum 2025

Business Innovation

 

 

Subject Name Business Innovation
Year Level 12
Subject Length Full year
Subject Type Optional
Prerequisite Subjects Successful completion of year 11 Business Innovation is recommended
Staff Contact Donna Foster
donna.foster588@schools.sa.edu.au

Content

Students use design thinking and planning processes to find and solve business problems. By working collaboratively with their peers to explore ideas and solutions, they will test, iterate and apply critical and creative thinking to make decisions to complex, 'real-life' problems, with the thinking of designers and innovators.

The course is structured around three key contexts: designing business, sustaining business, and transforming business. The teacher will select two key contexts to formulate the course. The focus is on innovation, project management, financial literacy, and global, local, and digital perspectives.

Assessment

Business skills  40%

  • 4 assessments - 3200 words or 20 minutes if oral/multimodal

Business model  30% 

  • 1500 words or 9 minutes oral/multimodal

Business plan and pitch  30%

  • Students develop a business plan - 1700 words or 10 minutes oral/multimodal
  • Students develop a pitch - maximum of 2 minutes and presented in a multimodal format

Additional Information

Students may visit businesses on excursions or outside school time for interviews.

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