Entrepreneurship And Organisational Innovation - Msc

This programme provides students with the knowledge, skills and analytical tools to develop an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset to identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities for new business start-up, and for innovating in existing organisations, creating added-value and leading transformational change. The programme focuses on developing impactful entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders and is centred on the premise that entrepreneurship education is about building ‘character’ (the entrepreneur/intrapreneur/innovator) and ‘capability’ (seizing business opportunities and disrupting innovations) to develop capacity to be innovative, creative and entrepreneurial leaders in a variety of enterprise contexts and sizes. The business world is in a constant state of change and uncertainty driven by the need for businesses to deliver on economic, social, environmental and sustainable goals. Therefore, the concepts of entrepreneurship and organisational innovation are dominating the existing global business community and are central when establishing a start-up or scaling existing enterprises in the current competitive uncertain world. This master’s programme equips students with specialist knowledge and the practical ability to start and globally scale an enterprise and linked to this student will learn frameworks and practical tips to implement innovation strategies. Content will explore the foundations of entrepreneurship and how, when integrated with innovation they create disruptive business models for a competitive advantage in a highly competitive business environment. Emphasis is placed on applied and experiential learning, where students gain first-hand experience of learning from and working with entrepreneurs and innovators. The programme develops entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mind-sets, and in-demand skillsets including complex problem solving, teamwork, critical thinking, innovation, creativity, people management, emotional intelligence, decision-making, resilience, negotiating and pitching. These skills will enable students to discover and analyse where the entrepreneurial and innovation opportunities lie and how these can be operationalised for social, economic, technological and environmental impacts. Entrepreneurial and innovative behaviour and expertise is promoted across all business functions, developing the necessary capabilities to scale and develop new ventures seeking innovation and growth. Programme Aims: Provides an in-depth understanding of entrepreneurship and organisational innovation and investigates how when both are integrated create sustainable entrepreneurial solutions through effective business modelling. Obtain an understanding on how to analyse organizational conditions and contexts to create and facilitate the conditions necessary for organisational innovation and entrepreneurship to take place. Develop knowledge to practice and manage analytical tools to engage in the process of entrepreneurship, idea generation, and organisational creativity and innovation for impact. Acquire and practice skills and techniques to develop an entrepreneurial and innovative mind-set to become an agile and creative entrepreneurial leader in transforming business concepts and opportunities into viable business propositions for commercial, social and environmental impact. Gain a suite of entrepreneurial competencies required to understand, engage and communicate with a range of stakeholders to deliver creative and innovative solutions. Advance management and leadership skills to undertake resource planning across financial, human, technological and organisational contexts to commercialise, scale and internationalise business opportunities.