Why choose this course?
The MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship course is aimed at students seeking to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills and capabilities. It is suitable for students coming from a range of subject disciplines such as business, tourism, performing arts, creative arts, computer sciences, technology, and engineering.
Whether you hope to become an entrepreneur, turning an opportunity that you have spotted into a sustainable business or social enterprise, or whether you see yourself in post graduate professional employment in a management, freelance or consultancy role, then this course could be for you.
In what is an ever changing and increasingly complex and competitive global environment, graduates need the skills, capabilities, and attributes to enable them to be successful. More than ever, employers expect graduates to be innovative, problem solvers that are adaptable, resilient, flexible, and willing to develop an enterprising mind set.
Studying this course will equip you with the necessary skills, capabilities, and knowledge to become a highly enterprising graduate, developing your enterprising mindset, enabling you to operate more effectively in any enterprising, entrepreneurial, or innovative setting.
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You will have the opportunity to practice and refine your skills and capabilities in order to develop
- Your critical understanding of the contemporary issues, theories and conceptual frameworks of entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity and their role in the establishment and development of new enterprises and or high growth businesses.
- Your critical knowledge of a range of strategic models and theories that can be utilised to guide effective and responsible action in dynamic environments. Applying these in both strategic and operational aspects of digital marketing, change management and operations management in an entrepreneurial business or organisation.
- Your ability to critically analyse and evaluate a change and or innovation context or project using a range of tools, models, and theories. Developing enterprising or innovative solutions or recommendations.
- Your understanding and knowledge of the principles and concepts underlying the strategic and operational performance of an organisation. Developing and justifying strategies for sustaining and managing process or product innovation.
- Your ability to make recommendations for entrepreneurial or enterprising practice, based on theoretical insights through the process of applied learning.
- Your ability to engage with independent learning, analysis, synthesis, and critical thinking through academic and or applied research completing an independent project or dissertation/ professional project at masters’ level.