This specialisation in our Master's programme in Business Administration educates existing and future entrepreneurs to execute their role in business and society in full awareness of their social, environmental and economic responsibility. The programme is currently being remodelled in order to strengthen the focus on independent entrepreneurship and innovation. The students are enabled to fulfil management and specialist tasks in a national and international environment in a responsible, socially and professionally competent manner. In addition, they acquire specific skills for starting a business. Students learn to understand and reflect on the role of business and, more generally, of entrepreneurial innovation in enforcing ethical guidelines. For this programme, a particular action learning format has been developed together with the Bayer Cares Foundation (BCF), which regularly awards social-impact start-ups with the Grants4Impact or ASINA award. In the context of a common boot-camp, groups of our students team up with BCF laureates, subsequently working with them for two semesters. Based on academic concepts like Business model development and "Market Creating Innovation", students analyse their partnerâ€™s organisation and propose a contribution they want to make to them. Moreover, they develop a social impact analysis and â€“ supported by a local consultant company â€“ design a social media campaign for "their" social-impact start-up partner. A new, transdisciplinary module on "Innovation and Creativity" provides students with technical skills in innovation and creativity as well as with soft skills such as teamwork, communication, and professional presentation to company executives. Additionally, students enhance their analytical skills with rigorous discussions of published and real-life case studies in class. They learn how to analyse, discuss and to critically question industry practices in innovation and creativity. In the module of "Service Management", guest speakers from different (mostly SME) companies are invited in order to discuss corporateÂ SDG-related problems with the students. The module of "Innovation Economics" is mainly based on journal articles. Students develop the ability to understand and assess the role of governments and financial markets for innovation and entrepreneurship as well as the ability to apply the gained knowledge to assess the social and economic consequences of the diffusion of new technologies, such as the impact of broadband Internet on social capital and the labour market.

Business Administration, Specialisation in Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation

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Business Administration, Specialisation in Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt