MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

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• MSc (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £17,900
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £33,600

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Society is facing a number of pressing sustainability challenges including climate change, dwindling biodiversity, and the degradation of air, water and soil quality. Many business leaders already recognise that commercial organisations must play a key role in addressing these problems. In this context successful managers are moving beyond the mind-set of limiting harm and managing risk, to proactively driving innovation to address these problems. In addition to the pace of innovation, sustainability-oriented innovation must take into account the directionality of change. This requires the identification and conceptualisation of key sustainability problems and potential solutions, as well as understanding how to communicate the need to drive change. The course will introduce students to key concepts, frameworks and exemplar cases to develop understanding of sustainability-oriented innovation as a multi-actor process involving the development and diffusion of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible products, services and practices.

BMAN70372 Programme Req: BMAN70372 is only available as an elective to students on MSc IME

Programme Req: BMAN70372 is only available as an elective to students on MSc IME

This course unit introduces students to sustainability-oriented innovation as a multi-actor process. Real-world examples will be used to help students understand key concepts and frameworks for developing and diffusing sustainable and socially responsible products, services, and practices.

This unit is organised in three parts.

In the first part we consider the context within which sustainable innovation takes place.

The second part explores processes of sustainable innovation from the perspective of business, and the third takes a broader systemic view of innovation for sustainability.

This course is delivered through a combination of 1) in-person and recorded lecture podcasts; 2) interactive Q&A and discussion and 3) interactive teaching sessions where we will undertake interactive activities, including discussion of key readings and student presentations.

explain the challenges associated with environmental sustainability and (specifically) climate change for firm competitiveness;

explain the role of innovation in responding to sustainabilitythese challenges

distinguish between different perspectives on environmental sustainability and sustainable innovation

apply a holistic and systemic approach to investigating complex, ‘messy’ open-ended problems

apply the common approaches, frameworks and analytical techniques used in the assessment of sustainable innovation, which is often complex, multi-faceted and uncertain.

apply and develop self-directed learning and information literacy skill

demonstrate research, analysis and organisational skills through the enquiry-based coursework

demonstrate skills in communicating ideas and making arguments in writing and/or verbally

50% individual report 

50% group presentation

 

 

Written feedback is provided within 15 working days of submission deadline

Recommended reading

You are not expected to have any specialist technological or sustainability knowledge. We will take time to introduce you to issues related to sustainability and some of the main technologies that firms need to get to grips with at the start of the 21 century.

There is no core text for the lectures. All relevant readings will be posted online or can be obtained through links via the annotated lecture slides. The Handbook of Sustainable Innovation (2019), edited by Boons and McMeekin, captures up to date expert knowledge on different topics across the field of sustainable innovation, and will form the

basis for several of our seminar sessions. A full list of readings to be presented and discussed during seminar sessions is available online. Sustainable Business by Kopnina, Padfield and Mylan (2023) gives an overview of some key themes in relation to sustainability.