Entrepreneurship - MSc

Enterprise Context and Business Values (20 credits)

This module will help you to critically apply knowledge, tools and techniques to resolve issues in new and diverse situations within the entrepreneurship discipline. You will be able to apply knowledge and understanding to compete for opportunities and transform them to viable concepts and business modules.

Entrepreneurial Ethos: Leadership, People & Team Management (20 credits)

On this module, you will be able to stimulate your entrepreneurial ethos and develop your management skills and capabilities to lead and direct start-ups.

Marketing and Customer Thinking (20 credits)

This module will help articulate a critical understanding of the contemporary issues , theories and conceptual frameworks used to explain and guide conventional marketing activities in organisations. More specifically, you will be introduced to the core marketing functions and develop an understanding of the key concepts, frameworks and models encountered in marketing.

Uncap Creativity & Innovation (20 credits)

This module provides an opportunity for you to understand how to map and analyse value chains, as well as providing tools and ideas to improve value chains and to design alternative structures of a value chain.

Value Chains: Partnerships & Resources (20 credits)

This module will provide you with the mental tools that help entrepreneurs and managers orchestrate innovation activities throughout value networks. It describes the role of innovation within current complex markets and provides a strategic framework for development and protection of offers that are valued by the market and customer.

International Experience (20 credits)

On this module, you will have the opportunity to experience international entrepreneurial decision making by working intensively for a period of four weeks on a business case for ‘going global’ in a different country and market.

Entrepreneurship Experience Project (40 credits)

The Entrepreneurship Experience Project is the culmination of the MSc Entrepreneurship course and stages the ambition to kick-start your venture and find opportunities to finance for growing it to a sustainable one. The experience allows you to channel the skills, knowledge and inquisitiveness you have acquired in the module to develop your own business idea into an investment ready opportunity. At the end of the module you will be able to pitch and defend your proposition in front of business angels and potential investors.

Throughout the year you will also study the following modules which will help you understand how to manage your own continuous personal and professional development (PPD).

Transformational Leadership Development (10 credits)

Transformational management education is a key focus within NBS, where effective ethical education across all business and management courses is the foundation of our students’ abilities to understand and contribute in meaningful ways towards current and future challenges in the area of sustainable development. The purpose of the module is to increase understanding of how to manage your own continuous personal and professional development in order to enable sustained career success and to be an effective and transformational leader.

As part of the Transformational Leadership Development module, students will spend one day a week at BioCity to put together a business case and learn about different aspects of a business such as marketing, finance, project management etc. At the end of the module student will be required to complete a presentation and report to reflect on their experience.

Customer Insight through Marketing Research (10 credits)

The aim of this module is to develop your skills as an effective decision maker - organisations require insight to make effective decisions and effective marketing research has been an integral part of how decision makers in organisations understand consumers and market dynamics; and as an effective academic - philosophical debates and methodological issues will be explored as a foundation to understanding marketing research.