Alliance Manchester Business School - The University of Manchester

MSc in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Course units details

During the course you will be taking 180 credits in total. The eight taught modules during semester one and two total 120 credits. During the summer you will complete a dissertation (60 credits).

Dissertation (60 credits)

• There are some opportunities to undertake a start-up dissertation related to a new venture, or in collaboration with external partners.

For an up-to-date list of modules, please visit the 'Course Details' section of the course page.

Coursework and assessment

Units are typically assessed by a combination of written work (essay or report), presentation, group project and examination.

• Gain a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of innovation across diverse sectors - from startups and global corporations to public institutions and emerging technologies.
• Understand new business models and the challenges of innovation for environmental sustainability.
• Learn how to research a technology, company, sector or country case in order to answer key questions about innovation management, strategy, policy or future trends.
• Learn how the innovation process works, how firms successfully manage innovation and how new, innovative products get to market.
• Appreciate the challenges and opportunities created by emerging technologies and the social and economic changes that can accompany them.
• Gain knowledge of techniques widely used in the management of innovation and entrepreneurship and develop practical skills in their application.

To find out more about the graduate outcomes for this course, please see the Careers Information document.

This course is a 12 month full-time course, based in Manchester. All our MSc courses are taught in Manchester only; they are not available to study online.

Teaching and Learning

The course is delivered by leading academics from the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, along with colleagues from the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre. Staff have practical experience of innovation strategy, technology policy, sustainability and innovative entrepreneurship and work closely with practitioners, drawing on that knowledge and experience and those links in their teaching. Cutting edge research is combined with real cases from around the world and a range of teaching methods to deliver an engaging, interdisciplinary and practice oriented grounding in innovation management and innovative entrepreneurship.