Bachelor of Applied Innovation

Add the Bachelor of Applied Innovation to one of our popular bachelor degrees as a double. You’ll grow creative confidence, learn how to collaborate in team, and hone your leadership potential, in this first degree of its kind in Victoria.

What is a Bachelor of Applied Innovation?

It's the degree that helps you understand and explore disruption and bring ideas to life. You'll work with different disciplines, methods and ways of looking at the world to find solutions to the world's biggest challenges.

Want to learn how to experiment, challenge assumptions, build prototypes and evolve ideas? Do you want to apply innovation to shape your industry's future, now?

You’ll take part in industry projects, design challenges, innovation sprints, and hackathons. And graduate with the skills to:

• implement new ideas and help organisations be future-ready, now,
• combine data-informed insights with imagination, intellectual curiosity and initiative,
• use technology to develop the kind of innovation the world needs,
• make decisions based on analytical and strategic thinking, human understanding, and respect for future generations.
   

Learn from industry

Thrive in Swinburne’s culture of creativity and innovation built through decades of tight-knit relationships with industry. 

Enjoy access to a broad array of industry partners in creating a comprehensive innovation project portfolio. Previous partners include CSIRO, Panasonic, St Vincent’s and ANZ. 

An example of our strong industry partnerships is seen in our collaboration with Radiocarbon, a Melbourne-based corporate innovation consultancy, who has previously led the Innovation Studio from weeks 3 to 12, bringing a real world industry perspective into the learning experience.

During these nine weeks, students explore Radiocarbon’s innovation methods, tools and practical approach. These highly applied sessions provide valuable insight into how innovation is delivered in industry, helping students graduate ready to become the innovators their industries need.