13 Innovation Masters Degree Programs in Netherlands

Are you interested in international business? Are you a team player with great interpersonal skills? Are you able to think creatively and find new approaches to old problems? Then the specialization in Strategy & Innovation could be right for you. The specialization is part of the master's program in International Business. It's for students who want to know how to keep companies and organizations competitive through innovation and strategy analysis.

As part of this two-year Master’s programme in Sustainable Business and Innovation, you will learn about sustainability challenges and the technological and other options that businesses can use to work in a more environmentally and socially friendly manner.

How do you build an organisation geared to innovation? How and with whom do you collaborate to bring new innovations to the market? And how, in a globalized world, do you protect your innovation, to make sure that you profit from it?

Innovation creates new opportunities that lead to sustainable economic growth and can help tackle serious societal problems relating to sustainability, climate change and health. During our two-year Innovation Sciences Master’s programme, you will learn how to transform new ideas into marketable innovations, and how to manage and promote innovation processes within companies as well as in society at large.

Want to understand how new media technologies are used to create innovative formats and ways of storytelling, and how media innovation and start-up culture are rooted in creative processes?

Connect your international school practice to current research and explore contemporary approaches to pedagogy and research. Examine issues such as the impact of marketisation, the opportunities of multicultural environments with the Learning and Innovation (International Teacher Education) programme offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences.

What can we learn from blood vessel systems in relation to crowd control and solutions for traffic jams? How do the compound eyes of insects reduce light pollution? How can we create a building functioning like a living organism or ecosystem? How to make the world more circular and sustainable by learning from nature?

The European Master in Renewable Energy (EMRE) gives you the opportunity to study in at least two EU countries and teaches you about the latest developments in renewable and clean energy technology. The programme has a technical orientation and is directed towards engineers that want to specialise in one of the renewable energy technologies, such as Wind Energy, Photovoltaics, Ocean Energy, Solar Energy or Grid Integration. You will be able to design, test, and implement these technologies with a systemic and interdisciplinary approach, making you essential to the whole energy industry.

Are you interested in international business? Are you a team player with great interpersonal skills? Are you able to think creatively and find new approaches to old problems? Then the specialization in Strategy Innovation could be right for you. The specialization is part of the master's program in International Business. It's for students who want to know how to keep companies and organizations competitive through innovation and strategy analysis.

The Innovation Sciences Master’s Program teaches you how to analyze, manage and influence innovation processes at a strategic level. While innovation is crucial for economic growth, sustainable development and welfare, many inspiring technological ideas never become successful.

The Executive Master Media Innovation had been designed to provide in-depth knowledge of digital media processes and to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media studies. With a focus on problem-based thinking at its heart, this master's program also considers how recognisable elements can be recombined to create new connections and new innovations.

This master’s program has been developed in collaboration with international media partners. The program utilizes problem-based thinking and consideration of emerging trends and technologies to recognize opportunities for media innovation. We look at the practical application of theory to produce (digital) media concepts that are innovative, future-orientated, and which ‘bring something new into use’.

Imagineering (from "imagination" and "engineering") is the strategic implementation of experience design that adds creative and transformative capacity to businesses and other organizations. In this 1-year MBA programme, you learn to innovate from a people-oriented approach. You also learn how to appeal to the imagination and how to make people co-designers of their own story, company, or organization.