Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship,MSc

MSc Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship focuses on building the essential skills that facilitate the commercialisation of product ideas and the acquisition of financial backing. You will learn how to grow effective teams and develop business plans that can detail product commercial differentiation within a market, product costs, operational and marketing costs, and risks.

This degree will equip you with an understanding of what can be patented and how to protect your ideas. You will undertake modules in product innovation, capital investments, strategic marketing, project management and supply chain systems. Following completion of the taught modules, you will complete an Investor Report and deliver an assessed investor pitch to ensure that you have developed the necessary skills to enable you to secure keys funds in order to grow a business.

This programme has been designed to be accessible by students who have graduated from almost any discipline. It does not require detailed technical knowledge in any one field, only on what can be patented.

Entry Requirements Normally, an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, candidates with HND + significant and appropriate experience may be allowed to enter the programme. Each applicant will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.

English Language Requirements IELTS 6.0 with minimum 5.5 in each component, or equivalent

Other Requirements Applicants are encouraged to submit an up-to-date CV as part of their application.

We are determined that students will graduate from this course with the key skills and confidence to commercialise ideas and succeed in business.

Career options for graduates may include:

• business design and innovation consultant
• enterprise consultant
• founder and CEO
• managing director
• marketing director
• program manager
• risk manager
• startup operations manager
• strategy consultant.