Graduate Certificate in Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship

University of Canterbury

Subject area

Natural and Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified

Qualification

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Entry requirements

A New Zealand university degree, or equivalent qualification.

About the course

What can I expect out of this qualification?

Graduates will have experienced thinking like an entrepreneur and will have the skill set to start their own business, an understanding to convert and adapt scientific ideas for marketable products or processes, knowledge of entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur, and the entrepreneurship process; and will be able to synthesise and evaluate the requirements for setting up a new venture. They will have completed a research project at an external organisation related to innovation and entrepreneurship; have learnt how to convert scientific concepts into products; have learnt how to develop and innovate that product and bring it to the market.