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Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation - Queensland University of Technology |
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| QTAC code: | | 418311 |
| | Domestic fees: | | Commonwealth Supported Place; Full fee tuition 2008: $218 per credit point
(per credit point, subject to annual review) |
| | Domestic entry: | | February |
| | Past OP cut-off: | | 12 |
| | Past rank cut-off: | | 76 |
| | Assumed knowledge: | | English (4, SA), Maths B (4, SA) and Chemistry (4, SA) |
| | Preparatory studies: | | MATHS: QUT unit Preparatory Mathematics as a visiting student or QUT Continuing Professional Education course Mathematics Bridging. CHEMISTRY: QUT unit Introductory Chemistry as a visiting student or QUT Continuing Professional Chemistry Bridging. ENGLISH: Successful completion of a year of full-time vocational or tertiary study. |
| | OP Guarantee: | | Yes |
| | CRICOS code: | | 037681J |
| | International fees: | | 2008: $9,600 per semester
(per semester, subject to annual review) |
| | International entry: | | February and July |
| | Course duration (full-time): | | 4 years |
| | Course duration (part-time): | | 8 years |
| | Total credit points: | | 384 |
| | Standard credit points/full-time semester: | | 48 |
| | Campus: | | Gardens Point |
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Why choose this course?
The Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation, the only course of its kind in the nation, is designed to produce Australia's first generation of business-focused biotechnologists.
Career Opportunities
The Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation is training the next generation of bioentrepreneurs to translate research outcomes into business opportunities. Graduates can be business-savvy scientists, or operate in the world of commercialisation and technology transfer or start up their own biotechnology-based enterprise bringing their own products to market. The emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurship means that graduates are comfortable working in a start up company environment or on new projects in established enterprises. Traditional roles in research-focussed organisations are also available.
Graduates are taking up key positions in the biotechnology industry sector as scientists, business development officers building new businesses from emerging technologies and as commercialisation officers evaluating and financing the commercialisation of new biotechnology products.
Biotechnology is a global industry with many countries promoting the sector as a major pillar of future economic development. Career opportunities exist internationally and graduates are encouraged to think beyond Australia.
Recommended Study
Biological Science is recommended.
Course Design
The Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation, a degree with Honours, was the first degree of its type in Australia and aims to provide highly trained and motivated graduates skilled in the science and business and biotechnology. Graduates undertake the same basic and advanced biotechnology science as students in other science-based courses, gaining requisite theoretical and practical skills. In this course, however, basic and advanced business units are undertaken highlighting entrepreneurial skills and biotechnology commercialisation. Integration and synthesis of the disparate disciplines is an essential component of the course.
Unique to the course is the Student BioEnterprise Scheme, a proactive project-based learning exercise promoting the integration of theory and practice in business and science. Students form companies and operate in the company environment over the entire duration of their course. Companies invent biotechnology-oriented products or processes and formulate strategies to bring them from laboratory to the marketplace under the guidance of industry and academic mentors. Students have many opportunities to network with industry through the Student BioEnterprise Scheme and numerous Ausbiotech functions, events and conferences. Companies can also undertake industry-based or consultancy projects with an industry partner in the final year of the course.
Professional Recognition
On graduation, students are immediately eligible for graduate membership of AusBiotech Ltd and the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Why Choose this Course?
If you'd like to work in the dynamic world of translating science discoveries into money-making enterprises, meeting people, evaluating projects, picking winners and running with them, then this course is for you!
While research innovation is critical to the future of Australian industry, and that of many other nations, it is the commercialisation of innovations that will realise any potential and serve to build and strengthen local biotechnology industry. Australia already produces many competent and highly regarded scientists but has a poor history and capitalising on research outcomes. The Federal and various State Governments are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in research innovation and commercialisation and the emphasis has moved to bringing emerging technologies into the marketplace. There is an increasing demand for skilled professionals who can drive research commercialisation in the science and technology sector in Australia and in the global marketplace. The Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation has created a new rapid pathway into the high-flying world of commercialisation and technology transfer.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Biotechnology Innovation have realised outstanding job outcomes and continue to be quickly employed by industry, often successfully competing against graduates with PhDs and MBAs.
Course Structure
| Code | Title | | Year 1 - Semester 1 | | BSB110 | Accounting | | MAB101 | Statistical Data Analysis 1 | | SCB111 | Chemistry 1 | | SCB112 | Cellular Basis of Life | | Year 1, Semester 2 | | BSB115 | Management, People and Organisations | | LSB258 | Principles of Human Physiology | | SCB121 | Chemistry 2 | | SCB122 | Cell and Molecular Biology | | Year 2, Semester 1 | | BSB113 | Economics | | BSB126 | Marketing | | LQB381 | Biochemistry: Structure and Function | | LQB383 | Molecular and Cellular Regulation | | Year 2, Semester 2 | | LQB481 | Biochemical Pathways and Metabolism | | LQB483 | Molecular Biology Techniques | | LQB484 | Introduction to Genomics and Bioinformatics | | MGB212 | Sustainability in a Changing Environment | | Year 3, Semester 1 | | LQB386 | Microbial Structure and Function | | LQB583 | Genetic Research Technologies | | LQB584 | Medical Cell Biology | | MGB312 | Negotiation Skills | | Year 3, Semester 2 | | AMB251 | Innovation and Market Development | | LQB682 | Protein Biochemistry and Bioengineering | | LQB684 | Medical Biotechnology | | MGB218 | Managing Business Growth | | Year 4, Semester 1 | | BSB310 | Business and Biotechnology | | LSB309 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | | LSB709-1 | Biotechnology Research Project | | EITHER | | | LQB582 | Biomedical Research Technologies | | OR | | | LQB585 | Plant Genetic Manipulation | | Year 4, Semester 2 | | BSB311 | Research, Development and Commercialisation Strategies | | LSB709-2 | Biotechnology Research Project | | LSB709-3 | Biotechnology Research Project | | EITHER | | | LQB681 | Biochemical Research Skills | | OR | | | LQB685 | Plant Microbe Interactions | | OR | | | LQB686 | Microbial Technology and Immunology |
Potential careers
Biotechnologist
Biotechnology Business/Investment Analyst
Business Development Officer
Cell Biologist
Commercialisation Officer
Medical Biotechnologist
Molecular Biologist
Plant Biotechnologist
Technology Transfer Officer
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