Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert
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Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
October
Entrepreneurs and small businesses start ups are often thought of as the backbone of economies worldwide. This course is designed to produce entrepreneurs ready for the challenge of setting themselves up in their own business, and is also ideal for those wishing to tackle an entrepreneurial role in a corporation.
Why study MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Middlesex University?
In a world that now comprises a very real and thriving 'enterprise culture', our course takes you through the entire process of concept, development and execution of starting a business. Pursuing a new business venture is a brave prospect requiring careful sourcing of resources and logistical and strategic moves in order to bring it to life. With entrepreneurship insights from specialist management disciplines, this exciting course will aim to make your...
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Qualifications
Applicants should normally possess a UK Honours degree classified 2.2 or above or an acceptable equivalent .
Eligibility
UK/EU and international students are eligible to apply for this course.
Academic credit for previous study or experience
If you have relevant qualifications or work experience, academic credit may be awarded towards your Middlesex University programme of study. For further information please visit our Accreditation of Prior Learning page.
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Subjects
- Entrepreneurship
- Management
- Credit
- Networks
- IT
- Innovation
- Marketing
- Financial
- Venture
- Project
- Financial Training
- IT Development
- IT Management
- Managing Projects
- Innovation management
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Services
- Entrepreneurs
- Business networks
- Venture Development
- Product
- International Entrepreneurship
Course programme
Course content
What will you study on the MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship?
To begin with the course arms you with various theories and contemporary methods that give you the basis of knowledge in developing a business plan, applying financial management tools, valuing a venture, and measuring financial performance to start. Moving on you will explore issues of project management, business networks, product development, and international entrepreneurship and its contributions to the global economy. With this knowledge you’ll be able to develop social capital, create effective marketing strategies, and manage projects.
Finally your will bring together the knowledge and skills developed throughout the course and apply them to a project that involves starting and running your own business or undertaking entrepreneurial work in an organisation.
There are three different awards available for this course:
- PG Certificate route comprises two 30 credit modules
- PG Diploma route comprises two 30 credit modules and four 15 credit modules
- MSc route comprises two 30 credit modules, four 15 credit modules and a dissertation
You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Optional modules are not offered on every course. If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, or there are staffing changes which affect the teaching, it may not be offered. If an optional module will not run, we will advise you after the module selection period when numbers are confirmed, or at the earliest time that the programme team make the decision not to run the module, and help you choose an alternative module.
ModulesVenture Development (30 Credits) - Compulsory
This module aims to introduce students to the processes required to start a new venture successfully. Students will be shown how the funding and markets are linked to entrepreneurial activities and will acquire the key skills required for venture development.
Innovation (30 Credits) - CompulsoryThe aim of this module is to provide an advanced understanding of the main theoretical frameworks, analytical tools, and successful business models for managing innovation in high dynamic environments. The module draws extensively on a range of case studies to illustrate central issues in industry dynamics of technological innovation, and to identify successful management practices in formulating and implementing technological innovation strategy.
Entrepreneurial Finance (15 Credits) - CompulsoryThe module aims to provide students with an awareness and understanding of various theories, knowledge, and financial tools an entrepreneur needs including business plan, financial management tools, financing a new venture, valuing ventures, process of going public, capital budgeting and measuring financial performance to start, build, and harvest a successful venture.
Developing Business Networks for Entrepreneurs (15 Credits) - OptionalThis module develops advanced understanding of and professional skills in evaluating and assessing relationships and their impact on entrepreneurs in a variety of settings. Students will learn the significance of building business relationships, both outside of their business and internally with staff, and the significance of these relationships at the different growth stages of their business. They will also learn about their strategic options when building business relationships, and the importance of being customer-focused in the electronic age. Students will learn to contextualise the importance of social capital and build practical skills in developing social capital; identify, evaluate and analyse stakeholder interests, and explore how to break into an industry. This covers a variety of channels, from social networking and customer relationships over the internet, to interpersonal and social skills, and joining and forming strategic business networks.
Developing new product and services (15 Credits) - OptionalThis module aims to develop students understanding of the key principles of product and service development and innovation management, and enhances their ability to put into practice these concepts. The module provides students with a core understanding of how product and service development contributes to the success of a firm and enables students to critically evaluate what is required to develop and deliver successful marketing strategies for innovative new products and services.
Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Applied Project (60 Credits) - CompulsoryThis module provides students with a means of developing further the skills and knowledge gained on the MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship, by application to a specific organisational issue or problem. It enables students to demonstrate proficiency in the design of a business enhancement project, application of appropriate methods of investigation, management of the change process, and maintenance of vision in the face of the vicissitudes of business realities.
Entrepreneurial Marketing (15 Credits) - CompulsoryThis module will enable students to learn how entrepreneurs can develop insights into consumer needs and transform them to create opportunities and markets. It is increasingly apparent that most firms succeed because they are willing to break the rules and act entrepreneurially. The module’s aims are to help students to appreciate how entrepreneurial marketing may be applied by any individual in any private or public sector organisation by focusing on the concept of entrepreneurial marketing, across all aspects of the marketing process. Students will be able to appreciate the potential of e-marketing and viral marketing, and plan marketing strategies with restricted funding for new ventures. It will aid students to recognise the role of networking and various methods of selling. Students will also be able to perceive and realise the ethical considerations crucial in entrepreneurial marketing.
Digital Marketing (15 Credits) - OptionalThe aim of this module is to develop students' knowledge and skills for understanding the complexity of the new digital landscape. The module provides a critical context in which to analyse the current digital developments. In particular, the module will facilitate students’ learning of e-marketing models, social media and e-tailing in order to produce a coherent digital marketing strategy.
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (15 Credits) - OptionalThis module focuses specifically on the development of the competences needed to develop sustainable enterprises. The module aims to provide the knowledge and understanding of eco and social venture development at the Masters level necessary to enable students to make a strong contribution to society, economy and the environment. Students will be enabled through a competency based approach that links real-world orientation, through inter and transdisciplinary assignments, academic-business cooperation, personal development and coaching, to the development of sustainability-driven enterprises.
You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Optional modules are not offered on every course. If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, or there are staffing changes which affect the teaching, it may not be offered. If an optional module will not run, we will advise you after the module selection period when numbers are confirmed, or at the earliest time that the programme team make the decision not to run the module, and help you choose an alternative module.
Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert