MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Barcelona, Spain
- Madrid, Spain
MSc
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 37,500 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Drive change with innovation and entrepreneurship
Get ready for a career on the cutting edge of business. In every sector, change is always inevitable—and with the Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, you’ll develop the ability to harness its power. You will learn state-of-the-art business practices that drive performance,from identifying and validating a business idea to managing growth of a fast-scaling organization.
Want to launch your own startup and shape the future as an entrepreneur? Or use entrepreneurship and innovation tools to transform existing companies or non-for-profits that face new challenges? Or be an investor or consultant in high-growth venture space? Start here.
At Esade, you’ll become part of an ecosystem of entrepreneurship, centered on our unique facilities like the Rambla of Innovation and the many Esade’s EWorks activities. Through direct access to other founders, leaders in fast-growth companies and investors, Esade’s own incubator and accelerator as well as visits to global innovation and entrepreneurship hubs, you’ll discover how to make ideas grow and turn them into reality.
Why choose the Esade MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
Immersion in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and innovation are part of Esade’s DNA. Our whole campus has been designed for the evolution and progress of business ideas.
Internship Innovation Project (I2P)
Tackle real business issues, enhance your teamwork skills, and partner with innovative companies in various industries to solve real challenges.
Barcelona: A hub of innovation
A thriving ecosystem of international top entrepreneurs, outstanding talent, high-growth ventures, coworking spaces, incubators, accelerators, and an active international investment community makes Barcelona one of Europe’s most exciting cities for startups and fast growing companies.
Global Study Tours
During intensive, week-long study and immersion tours, you’ll visit top universities and leading high growth, high-impact companies around the world. Specialist seminars will give you actionable insights into critical topics.
Actionable and AI empowered
During the courses and additional offerings, you will focus on real-life projects and hands-on immersive learning experiences that teach you the state-of-the-art practices and how to apply them hands-on. Further, you learn how you can use Artificial Intelligence to drive venture performance in the various domains and process steps.
When you graduate, you will be able to:
- Find, launch, and manage new ventures with high-growth potential.
- Seek and evaluate new business opportunities.
- Design and validate business models to build successful start-ups and prepare business plans.
- Design, implement, and manage a company’s innovation strategy, network, or system.
- Analyze and actively participate in any start-up funding process from both the founder and the funding sides.
- And you will have the foundation to become a responsible leader who acts with integrity, embraces diversity, fosters inclusion, and is committed to advancing a fairer society while supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Many program graduates start their own ventures, while others succeed in fields like innovation management, R&D, business development, consulting, policy advice, financial analysis, managing technology centers, clean-tech, sustainable energy, marketing, and sales.
Term 1: Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundations
An introduction to the world of Innovation and entrepreneurship, consisting of five core courses covering a wide range of disciplines:
- Business in Society
- Creative Thinking
- Entrepreneurship
- Exploring the Opportunity
- Innovation management
Term 2: Advanced Innovation & Entrepreneurship
This module will give you greater insight into the following areas:
- Advanced Strategy for Entrepreneurs and Innovators
- Finance for Entrepreneurs and Innovators
- Marketing for Entrepreneurs and Innovators
- Product management for Entrepreneurs and Innovators
Term 3: Electives
The wide range of electives offered during this term will allow you to tailor the program to your specific career goals.
You can choose a minimum of 12 ECTS, all with a strong practical focus. The courses feature a highly interactive methodology and are largely based on your own initiative and work.
Electives offering may very from on academic year to the next.
The following list are examples of the current offering:
MSc in Innovation & Entrepreneurship electives
- ·Agile Management: How to Manage Projects and Products
- Development Tools for Web & Mobile Apps
- Driving Business Performance: Sales and Marketing
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Entrepreneurial Hubs (End of Term 2)
Free electives
- AI Applications for Business
- Banking & Financial Markets
- Challenge Based Innovation for AI (CBI4AI)
- Consulting insights: Strategies for Success
- Data Analytics and Cloud Platforms
- Data-Driven Prototyping with AI
- Family Business Management
- In Search of Principles for a Life Philosophy: Lessons from Art, History and Economics
- Leading with Impact
- Re-Imagining Capitalism (Intensive – January)
Free electives from other MSc Programs
- B2B Sales
- Creating Successful International Marketing Strategies
- Data Analysis for Business Managers
- Developing Business Models for Impact
- Digital Leadership in the era of AI
- Digital Marketing
- Digital Marketing Performance
- Digital Product manageme<nt
- Equality and Human Rights in Business
- Excellent Consulting: The Challenge of International Collaboration & Corporate Change
- Fintech: Technology Innovation in Financial Services
- Global Value Chains, Sustainability and Innovation
- Global Supply Chain
- Implementing Integrated Communications
- Innovation through Design Thinking
- Investment Banking & Decentralized Finance
- Managing Luxury Brands
- Managing Risk as Sustainability Strategy
- Project Management
- Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investment
- Strategic Key Account Management
- Strategic Management of Disruptive Innovation & Exponential Technologies
- Sustainability Management in Practice
- The Art of Strategic Decision-Making
Places are subject to availability
While all students can opt for all offered Study Tours / Electives if they fulfill prerequisites, they have to enroll through a bidding process where students from certain programmes might have preference for courses more relevant to their Master and spaces are limited in each course.
Rankings for Esade Business School undergraduate degrees in Spain
- #1 Private University in Spain for a Bachelor in Management, El Mundo
- #1 Best university in Spain to study business administration undergraduate degrees, QS World University Ranking by subject
- #2 Best private university in Spain for our Double Degree in Business Administration and Law, El Mundo
- #8 Best Business School worldwide FTMBA, Financial Times
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