Unlocking the
Entrepreneurial Mind-Set

Industry and Community Partner

Various

Incubator/Start-up

University

RMIT University (RMIT Activator

Innovative Features

  • Engaging multiple disciplines
  • Entrepreneurial elements – with a focus on mindset development
  • Scalable and sustainable
  • Coach or mentor elements

Enablers

Key enablers of the RMIT Activator include:

  • The Melbourne CBD location separates RMIT Activator from RMIT’s main campus but maintains links directly to the Vice Chancellor which facilitates fast decision making.
  • Partnerships formed with the Colleges at RMIT, which provides different WIL programs to students.
  • Wide diversity of our program participants as well as our staff and industry collaborators
  • Access to the expertise, skills and talents of the academic staff at RMIT and collaboration between RMIT academic and professional staff.
  • Its ability to drawn together staff, students and alumni all pursuing entrepreneurship and start-up’s in the same space to create a community embracing the entrepreneurial mind-set.

For more information

Please visit the RMIT Activator website at https://rmitactivator.edu.au
The RMIT Activator is an entrepreneurial space at RMIT designed to foster the entrepreneurial mindset and connect students, staff and alumni to a network of transformative experiences designed to facilitate the development of enterprise skills, encourage innovation alongside industry and innovation experts, and launch new businesses.

RMIT Activator has three streams:

  1. Learn – provides student, staff and alumni with online and face-to-face entrepreneurial skill development opportunities.
  2. Innovate – encompasses a range of Bootcamps, Hackathons and programs designed to support start-ups to move from idea to formation. During the 12-week Sandbox program participants undertake market research, create and test prototypes and validate the value proposition of their start-up.
  3. Launch – offers students, staff and alumni a unique accelerator program, LaunchHUB – designed to support the launch of new enterprises through masterclasses, dedicated business and resilience coaches, advisors and industry experts all from their co-working space located in Melbourne CBD. Teams of at least two members with an early stage start-up, with a working MVP and a scalable business model can apply for the program.

RMIT Activator also acts as a brokerage between RMIT students and start-ups participating in the programs by connecting students with start-up’s offering credit-bearing WIL opportunities.

Impact / outcomes

RMIT Activator is quite new, starting in 2016, but it has already a community of almost 5,000 members (student, alumni and staff). It has supported 60 enterprises at this time, 41 of which have received funding ($955,000 in total), providing 12 WIL internship opportunities during 2018.

Student Assessment

RMIT Activator is currently finalising its student assessment requirements.

Quality Indicators – Evaluation

RMIT Activator is currently finalising its evaluation procedures.

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