ENT30010-Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Assignment Overview

For this assignment, you will be required to complete two self-paced modules covering topics from Weeks 7–8.

This assignment will give you the opportunity to engage in productive enquiry across a range of topics to broaden your understanding of the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in addressing society's contemporary issues and in your field of study.

Assignment Detail

In this assignment, you will explore the concept of the crowd and ecosystems as it is applied in industry and to your field of study.

Each module will require you to engage in reading and respond to questions. We recommend that you complete the modules in the corresponding week that it runs and in the order that they are listed.

Please refer to the Assignment criteria section for how the modules will be assessed.

Task

Explore the following eight websites that make use of the crowd by reading through the site content and watching videos where appropriate. Once you have a good understanding of what each website is doing and how it utilises the crowd, create a Word document with responses to the questions that follow

Questions

1.Chose one of the eight websites and cite it.

2.Which websites use the crowd to source and what are they sourcing?

3.Which websites use the crowd to fund and how are they seeking funding?

4.If I put something for sale on eBay, am I crowdfunding or crowdsourcing? Explain your reasoning for your answer.

How many words is your response?