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MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management Master's Degree - MSc/PgC/PgD (TNE Only)

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About the Course

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The aim of the MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management is to enable students to attain the essential critical knowledge of entrepreneurship, strategy and innovation management theory and its application. It aims to develop people who think differently, giving you the skills you need to take new and exciting ideas to market, and create successful businesses around them.

The course also gives students the opportunity to explore and critically assess what it means to be entrepreneurial and innovative in today’s global market environment. It will give you insights into and practical experience of the issues facing new business ventures and renewing established businesses through fostering creativity, design, and new ways of thinking. It builds theoretical knowledge alongside the core business skills needed to start new enterprises and transform existing ones through innovations in product, process or business models.

You will also discover how to use innovation to make a difference in your own business and in other organisations and learn about important areas of entrepreneurship – including product development, intellectual property, and entrepreneurship theory and practice. The course builds core knowledge, raised to new levels by highlighting the networks and relationships needed for collaborative work in increasingly international markets for goods and services. You will then select from a range of options to focus your learning and execute a major practical exercise to help launch your new career.

The course is typically offered as a one-year, full-time programme. Any part-time students would follow a similar programme structure, over a longer period.

The programme is modular in design. To obtain the MSc award, each student will be required to successfully complete 180 credits.

It is comprised of six 20-credit taught modules and then students have a choice between a Dissertation, or an Enterprise & Innovation Project, which are each worth 60 credits.

The taught element for the full-time course is offered over two Semesters, and students will complete their final project/dissertation in their third Semester. The standard School Semester duration is 12 weeks.

A 20-credit module represents 200 hours of student effort, while the 60-credit module represents 600 hours of student effort.

In summary, on this course you will:

  • Learn business planning, the development and marketing of new products, and financial management
  • Understand concepts of innovation management and entrepreneurship, theories, models and analytical frameworks, and their application in business policy and strategy
  • Be supported by academic staff with expertise in the area
  • Research, plan and produce an independent project, expanding on your understanding of innovation management or entrepreneurship and giving you the opportunity to specialise in an area of your choice

Term 1

Compulsory Modules

  • Entrepreneurship, Start-up and Growth (20 credits)
  • Innovation Management (20 credits)
  • Business Planning and Control (20 credits)

Award – PG Certificate (60 credits)

Term 2

Compulsory Modules

  • Marketing Intelligence (20 credits)
  • In Search of Creativity, Innovation & Difference (20 credits)
  • International Business Strategies (20 credits)

Award – PG Diploma (120 credits)

Term 3

  • Dissertation (60 credits) OR Enterprise & Innovation Project (60 credits)

Final Award – MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (180 credits)

The MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management is delivered on a traditionally taught method with scheduled lectures, seminars and tutorials during taught semesters and the online learning environment. Combined, these allow students to develop skills for life in the knowledge economy.

The programme team has a commitment to high quality research led teaching, and they incorporate a wide variety of learning and teaching techniques to form a collaborative partnership with students to facilitate depth of learning and criticality. In this way, they can foster group interaction and allow students to engage with ideas, questions and discussions and learn from each other’s pool of knowledge.

Modules have a structured approach in their design and students access the course content via Moodle, the virtual learning environment. All staff are developing modules to offer students a shared learning experience with other students and module tutors. They involve varying levels in using discussion boards and blogs and more interactive learning tools and techniques as well as the self-study materials.

This course has a clear focus on both Entrepreneurship and Innovation and allows students to tailor their project to their own needs with the choice between a practical project or a dissertation.

Assessments relate directly to learning outcomes and one assessment usually covers a range of learning outcomes. Candidates are assessed in taught modules and by means of a dissertation or business plan module.

Summative assessment – for this programme is both challenging and creative. Students will face an assessment diet that focuses extensively upon the use of authentic assessment tasks and problem-based learning. Assessment on this programme, like the teaching is blended, with a wide variety of assessments, written tasks will require students to approach such tasks in unique and distinct ways (essay, business reports, business plan, case study analysis). There are no formal examinations on this award. Students will be required to present work verbally individually and as a group, to an audience. The completion of an end of programme research project will establish and capture the students independent study skills.

Formative assessment – will play a large part in the programme, utilising where possible, peer assessment and evaluation.

MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management graduates will have the potential to start up their own company, become far more entrepreneurial and innovative within a larger organisation or go on to further studies.

Careers and Opportunities

You will be able to pursue management careers in the private and public sector, in innovation management, entrepreneurship, and the management of small enterprises.

Career opportunities include:

  • Marketing
  • New product development
  • Innovation
  • Research and development
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Project management
  • Administration
  • The arts

You will also be able to enter or advance more quickly in a career in business, manufacturing, healthcare and knowledge management, or in a consultancy-based role.

  • Location

    Partner Institution

  • School

    Cardiff School of Management

  • Duration

    1 year full time.
    3 years part time.

We endeavour to deliver courses as described and will not normally make changes to courses, such as course title, content, delivery, and teaching provision. However, it may be necessary for the University to make changes in the course provision before or after enrolment. It reserves the right to make variations to content or delivery methods, including discontinuation or merging courses if such action is considered necessary. For the full information, please read our Terms and Conditions.