Innovation Fundamentals
Mar 31, 2025 - Jun 27, 2025
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Full course description
Learn the meaning and uses of ‘innovation’, and how to apply the mindset and principles of innovation to achieve business goals.
This Spark credential will give you knowledge of innovation processes and the importance of innovation in society. You’ll learn how to use the opportunities provided by the current technological revolution and be an innovator of the future.
It is one of three Spark credentials that can be completed together and used as credit towards a Curtin bachelor degree in innovation.
Earn credit towards your Curtin bachelor degree
When you complete this Spark credential together with Spark credentials in Innovation Strategies; and Preparing for the Future of Work, you’ll earn 25 credit points towards the Introduction to Innovation Principles unit, normally studied in the first year of your degree.
This Spark credential is designed specifically for high school students who aspire to a future career in technological innovation and/or business entrepreneurship.
By completing your Spark credential you will learn to:
- identify processes, products and other outcomes of innovation, and evaluate the likely success of potential new products and services
- describe the factors of an innovative mindset and be able to apply this knowledge in innovation practice
- apply skills in creative design.
Assessment(s)
To successfully complete this credential, you are required to pass a final assessment.
Senior Lecturer/School of Management and Marketing
Anton Klarin (PhD, UNSW) is an academic in Innovation and International Business and Bachelor of Innovation Course Lead at Curtin University. He conducts interdisciplinary innovation-related research, so far receiving several awards including Early Career Researcher of the Year, Top Cited and Highly Commended articles, and Most Current and Important Research. He was awarded several grants delivering demand-driven reports related to strategically important technologies for Australia.
Dr Anton Klarin
Dean, Learning & Teaching/Faculty of Business and Law
As Dean Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Subra is an experienced higher education leader specialising in business, entrepreneurship and innovation education. Skilled in curriculum and program development (including study tours), course direction and academic research. Enjoys sport and being an engaged dad!
Senior Lecturer/School of Management and Marketing
As a senior lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Curtin University, Louis has over thirty years' experience in the small and medium enterprise sector including owning and running some of his own. His expertise and passion include design-led innovation, business modelling, lean startup and entrepreneurship education. Louis oversees student-based projects that aim to commercialise an innovative product or service and encourage students to consider an entrepreneurial career as an alternative way to enter the jobs market. Louis supervises PhD students completing research studies in social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and business startup programs.
Senior Lecturer/School of Management and Marketing
Dr Ben Thomas has been a teaching and research academic based in Curtin’s Faculty of Business and Law since 2019. He teaches business strategy and start-up business planning within the Curtin MBA, undergraduate and postgraduate programs and is also the Lead Academic on Curtin’s start-up accelerator programs, Ignition and Accelerate. His research interests include wine industry innovation and wine tourism as well as building innovation and entrepreneurial capability within founders of early-stage ventures. Further, Ben has founder experience as a co-founder of Vine Collective, WA’s first solely online wine marketplace platform, and co-founder of the wine production company, Berserkr Wines.
Once you successfully complete and pass the final assessment, you'll earn a digital badge that is instantly shareable to your social networks (including LinkedIn) which showcases your new skills and knowledge mastery.
This digital badge provides foundation knowledge in a discipline and doesn't require previous knowledge.
Curtin Credentials focus on five themes, which have been carefully curated based on what's most relevant and valuable to professionals today, and in the future. This credential fits within the following theme:
Unleash your inner entrepreneur and blend your creativity and problem-solving skills to create valuable new products and services.
For more information on this, or any other questions about Curtin Spark, email us at FBLEngagement@curtin.edu.au or call the FBL Engagement team on (08) 9266 1116.
*Curtin may cancel or reschedule a credential at any time and for any reason as it sees fit. The Start Date and the other details of this credentials are provided as a general guide only and may change from time to time.
✝This credential involves 30 hours of online resources, readings, activities and assessments. However to pass, you may need to commit further time.
^Learning is done completely online.
§Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase.
Start: 31 March 2025
End: 27 June 2025*
Duration: 30 hours
Length: 12 weeks✝
Delivery Mode: Online^
Price: $1335 GST incl.§