12 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Degree Programs in Austria

With the Digital Business Innovation and Transformation master degree, you will be qualified to manage digital transformation across multiple industries.

Master the Skills Top Employers Demand—Accelerate Your Career with our EU-accredited and globally recognized Real-World Skills MBA! Gain the essential, real-world expertise that makes you stand out in today’s competitive job market. Our MBA focuses on the practical business knowledge and career development skills that leading global employers seek. With the Real-World Skills MBA, you'll be trained using the exact same business modules we’ve successfully delivered for nearly two decades—designed to upskill managers and consultants at some of the world’s most prestigious companies, including: US Tech Giants, Swiss and German Pharmaceutical Leaders, German and Italian Premium Automotive Manufacturers Swiss Financial Institutions, Swiss and German Insurance Companies, Europe’s Aerospace Leaders, French Cosmetics Powerhouses, German Energy Consulting Firms, Swiss & US Environmental and Energy Contractors, Japanese Technology Innovators and many more. Join a program that’s been proven to prepare professionals for success at the highest levels—and get the skills that actually matter in the real world.

Tourism is increasingly about how travelers experience places. To react to this changing nature of tourism, the master program “Innovation & Management in Tourism” equips you with the skills you need to become a highly qualified manager in the international tourism sector. Learn how to identify new trends, meet new traveler demands and become an active contributor to tomorrow’s tourism trade.

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a program taught fully in English designed especially for industry professionals wanting to advance their careers. The program is taught in blocked seminars, two to four days on campus or online once a month. The program concentrates on strategic analysis and planning, interdisciplinary skills, value-based management, and critical thinking. Students will advance their knowledge in core business disciplines including human resource management, organizational behavior, accounting and finance, marketing and operations, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Out-of-the-box thinking challenges existing limits and thought patterns.

In a competitive global market, innovation is essential for success. Achieving it sustainably requires more than just ideas – it demands the holistic integration of marketing, design, and technology, combined with strategic thinking.

The Entrepreneurship Tourism Master’s degree offered by MCI aims to contribute to the professionalization of entrepreneurship in the leisure and tourism industry. The program incorporates current challenges faced by the industry to enable students to recognize and make use of the resulting opportunities for enterprises. It furthermore aims to create a general awareness of trends and current developments in international tourism. Two of the central processes currently affecting the industry are digitization and constantly changing consumer behavior.

The agricultural sector is undergoing change due to digitalization and global trends. Companies are focusing on direct marketing, specialty cultivation and digital services. Successful managers must recognize trends, master digitalization and develop and market innovative products. Graduates are prepared to master these challenges while taking resource efficiency into account.

New products do not come to life by coincidence or spontaneous flashes of inspiration. They require innovation, product & engineering managers who find ideas tailored to customer requirements, evaluate and select them correctly, and support their successful implementation.

The Bachelor's program combines theory and practice and addresses the constantly changing conditions in the Tourism and Leisure Business. Interacting with lecturers and guest lecturers who are specialists in their field and interacting with experts during numerous excursions, you will get to know key players in the industry and gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of companies and destinations. During an (international) internship in your final year, you will be able to apply and further enhance your theoretically acquired knowledge and build your professional network.

Globalisation, extremism, new forms of communication – our society is constantly changing, and this inevitably brings new challenges. It is important to react to these challenges with flexibility as well as creativity with solution-oriented approaches. Become a specialist and executive in the social sector with our Master's degree in Social Innovation and actively shape the social future!

Accelerate Your Career—Stand Out from the Crowd Gain the real-world skills you need to rise faster than your peers, secure rapid promotions, and succeed as a high-impact manager or entrepreneur. Earn an international Online MBA degree (EU-accredited and globally recognized), complemented by prestigious certifications from world-leading institutions such as Harvard University, MIT, Columbia, Imperial College, IBM, and AWS. If you're serious about setting yourself apart from the competition and advancing your career globally, this is the ultimate Global Online MBA program for you.

In an accelerating, technology-driven, global economy, a company’s ability to evolve and to innovate constantly, to seize opportunities and respond to developments no longer constitutes a strategic advantage. It is now a business requirement. The Executive MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation communicates those skills and techniques behind entrepreneurial thought and action, imparting expertise and thought processes that enable managers and entrepreneurs to make crucial decisions and compete successfully.