Student Programs

Complement your study with entrepreneurial experience

Our students are tomorrow's innovators and change makers and we're here to show you how.

Click here to register for our Design Thinking program beginning Tuesday 14th May, 2024.

We are also taking EOI for our Start and Pitch programs that will run in July and August 2024. Register here and we'll be in touch with you soon!

Our student programs are designed to complement any disciplinary knowledge by fostering and developing their confidence in pursuing a self-determined pathway.

We understand that not all students will want to pursue the entrepreneurial pathway, however, the tools of innovation, the art of creative thinking, the ability to empathise with others and to see opportunity where others see problem and risk, are critical skills for any career path they choose to pursue.

Through their journey with us, students will develop a new learning mindset and will gain the transferable skills required to give them the competitive advantage to succeed in a fast-changing workplace.

Education 4.0 identified the 3 skills students will need for the jobs of the future:

• Problem-solving: the world needs competent problem-solvers. Through creative thinking, resilience and critical thinking, students will learn how to embrace challenge, brainstorm ideas, test, and scale solutions.
• Collaboration: students need to learn how to work collaboratively and communicate effectively in any form with all personality types, backgrounds, and worldviews.
• Adaptability: embrace uncertainty and learn how to make decisions under pressure.

Incubator student program process

1. Discover: Create an idea.
   Be inspired and ideate while developing a design thinking mindset.
2. Develop: Lean out the idea.
   Learn the lean mindset. Start developing your idea and convert it into a business model.
3. Define: Communicate your idea.
   Learn the art of pitching.
4. Deliver: Launch your idea.
   Get funding for your idea.

Upon successful completion students will receive a digital badge to display your skills and qualifications.

Our programs address 8 out of the top 10 skills identified by the World Economic Forum in their Future of Jobs Survey (2018):

Our programs are free for current Macquarie University students.