Noosa and Rockhampton will host the first intakes to a new degree geared to produce leaders of knowledge-based industries.

The new Central Queensland University offering allows students to dip into offerings from a number of different faculties and to gain credit for entrepreneurial work in industry.

CQU’s Professor Richard Smith said the University had led the way with learning management degrees and was now staying ahead of the pack by recognising the changing employment landscape.

“The BCE gives students the chance to specialise in cross-disciplinary studies associated with the generation, application and exploitation of creative, ingenious and imaginative knowledge,” he said.

“Graduates will be at the forefront of cultural and creative developments. They will develop flexibility in future-oriented entrepreneurial, technological and generic skills.” Professor Smith said the degree would give students a strategy and an opportunity to create a future in the creative industries for themselves.