MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation
MSc
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Entrepreneurship and innovation are terms that go hand in hand as entrepreneurs frequently innovate in order to achieve economic prosperity, regional growth and social transformation.
MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation uses innovative and interactive teaching, such as group working and applied projects, to develop your practical business knowledge and employability skills. We hone your entrepreneurial spirit, so you can have the capabilities and confidence to launch your own venture, manage your family business or introduce innovative ideas to improve performance at existing organisations.
This course explores the entrepreneurial issues and challenges high on the agendas of businesses, governments, policy-makers, researchers, educators and wider communities across the world.
You explore topics including:
- economic, sociological, psychological and managerial theories of enterprise creation theories and practices of entrepreneurship
- entrepreneurship skills
- strategic innovation management
- new venture development
- how to prepare a business plan
This course is delivered by Essex Business School at our Southend Campus. Essex is one of the most entrepreneurial places in the UK and an exciting place to do business. We have more start-up businesses than any other county in the UK, some based right here on our campus. This entrepreneurial spirit, global community and academic expertise come together to inspire innovative thinking.
Year 1
- Theories and Practice of Entrepreneurship
- Innovation Management
- Creating and Managing the New and Entrepreneurial Organisation
- Research Methods
A Masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation will ensure you have a clear grasp of real-world entrepreneurial challenges and how innovative approaches can be applied to existing organisations to improve performance - giving you an excellent foundation for your future career.
Our curriculum aims to prepare you for a career as an entrepreneur, an owner-manager or a policy maker. Core modules such as Theories and Practice of Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, and Research Methods will equip you with a critical understanding of the range of economic, sociological, psychological and managerial theories of enterprise creation and development and how they apply in practice, together with an understanding of innovation at an operational and strategic level.
Many of our graduates go on to set up their own businesses or work for government and other policy making institutions or community-based organisations. Recent graduate destinations include consultancies and financial institutions such as:
- KPMG
- EY
- SAP
- Morgan Stanley
Read our graduate profiles to see more on the types of organisations our alumni work for.
Our Student Support team work closely with the University’s Employability and Careers service to help you with careers information and advice and CV support. They will help you find work experience, internships, placements and voluntary opportunities and provide access to employer talks on campus. We also work closely with the Essex Startups team to support our budding entrepreneurs get their business ideas off the ground.
We use interactive and innovative teaching techniques to foster your transferable employability skills:
- tailor the content of your course to more closely fit your interests and aspirations
- learn through a combination of group working, applied projects and guest practitioner lectures
- courses focus on practical applications and links with industry
- we run an open seminar series, giving you access to cutting-edge research from leading academics
- our lecturers embed the latest research into their teaching, so your education is relevant to real-world entrepreneurial challenges