The Graduate Certificate's project and experience based learning develops awareness and competency in commercialisation and entrepreneurship.

To be awarded the Graduate Certificate, students will sucessfully complete a total of four courses (24 units of credit).

Candidates for the Certificate will be required to complete two core courses, and two electives as follows.

Hours per week: 3 hour workshop, plus 4 hours preparation

The course explores the principles of human communication processes as they relate to negotiation and persuasion, in deals, agreements and teamwork. Ethics in business and stakeholder obligations are discussed in relation to establishing and fulfilling contract agreements for the commercialisation of technology-based opportunities. Students will also develop effective strategies for dealing with the media to assist business growth.

Communication in Professional Management program structure and course outline available for download here (250KB PDF).

Hours per week: 3 hour workshop per week, plus four hours class preparation.

Students develop expertise as it relates to their primary field of study and future career paths and objectives in the areas of intellectual property management, market research, research funding, and commercialisation and/or practical implementation of research outcomes.

Professional Skills for Researchers program structure and course outline available for download here (176KB PDF).

Complete one of the following:

Hours per week: Online

Project management involves the overall planning, control and coordination of a project and is the process by which the responsibility for all phases is combined within one multi-disciplinary function. This course introduces students to the project management skills required during the lifetime of a project and explores the key concepts of project management from initiation to termination, including project risk management.

Hours per week: 1 week intensive plus semester long assignment

This course is designed to provide research students with the big picture of project management. It will require students to develop hands-on skills and will aim to provide broad exposure to relevant research, business and engineering concepts, management specifics and potential risks. The skills developed will provide a basis of planning and controlling projects and for organising and leading people and groups to meet the needs of extended enterprises within the bounds of limited time and resources.

Complete one of the following:

Hours per week: 2 hour workshop per week, plus four hours class preparation

This course is designed to provide an introduction to the skills and techniques required to successfully commercialise an invention or new technology. Students will develop fundamental skills in accounting, and the preparation and interpretation of financial statements. They will be introduced to the stock market, investment principles and the role of private and equity finance, and economic variables in the business cycle of technology based ventures. Students will gain experiential skills in investing, market valuations, strategic planning, budgeting, benchmarking and market research, and start-up strategies.

Hours per week: On-line

This course incorporates both strategic and tactical dimensions of new production and service development. It demonstrates a variety of concepts and modes of thinking about innovation and product development and provides a workable knowledge of a best practice approach to product creation from concept selection through to post-launch monitoring. It also covers the organisation and management practices that are most likely to result in successful new product development.