MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship / Course details

Do you want to start your own business, join an innovative firm or shape innovation policy? The MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Alliance MBS will equip you with the relevant skills to succeed. It offers a unique perspective on innovation owing to our expertise in areas such as sustainability, high-tech entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, and policy.  

This MSc can be taken as a one-year full-time course or part-time over two years. 

• Our modules will help you understand how the innovation process works, how companies organise to take advantage of internal and external sources of innovation, and the challenges of innovation for sustainability.
• You will gain understanding of new technologies, the new business models they enable, and the challenges and opportunities they create. You will also appreciate the role of location and how innovations emerge in different regions.
• You will learn how new innovative firms are created and develop practical skills in the application of widely used techniques in entrepreneurship.
• The MSc focuses on developing analytical and critical skills, research training, personal communication skills and effective team-working, which are useful in a wide range of careers.
• Throughout the programme, field trips and external speakers provide opportunities to learn best-practice from managers and entrepreneurs.
• You will be able to conduct your own research on an innovation management and entrepreneurship topic of your choice.

Students will have the opportunity to participate in an organised visit to Manchester’s digital incubators, to experience real-life applications of innovation management and entrepreneurship concepts covered on the course.  Read about a visit to Manchester Technology Centre .

The programme can be studied part-time over 2 years. Part-time students will normally complete 4 courses in year 1, and 4 courses in year 2. They will write their research dissertation over the summer of year 2. Read about the experience of part-time graduate Iva Dulkova .

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

Some blogs written by students have been published on the MIOIR blog .

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