MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship / Course details

The MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship is a unique master's course offered by Alliance MBS - home to Europe's largest number of innovation researchers. It can be taken as a one-year full-time course or part-time over two years.

• Learn how the innovation process works, how companies organise to take advantage of internal and external sources of innovation, how to measure innovation and forecast future innovation trends
• Gain understanding of new technologies, the new business models they enable, and the challenges and opportunities they create.
• Learn about the role of innovation for sustainability.
• Focus on developing analytical and critical skills, research training, personal communication skills and effective team-working
• Prepare for a variety of careers including a leader of innovative teams, an entrepreneur in a technology-driven organisation, academic researcher or lecturer

Authentic mastery - being able to apply these methods, tools and techniques in a real scenario - is at the heart of much of the teaching and assessment. There is a strong emphasis on research training, development of personal communication skills, team-working and presentation which gives you an excellent basis to pursue a variety of careers across all sectors, academic research or teaching.

Units are typically assessed by a combination of:

• Written work (essay or report)
• Presentation
• Group project assessment
• Examination

The last third of the programme is spent researching and writing a dissertation of around 15,000 words, the choice of topic reflecting the student's interests and the expertise of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) .