MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

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

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• Innovation Strategy. Foundational concepts
• Patterns of technology development
• Technological Systems of Innovation
• Innovation Roadmapping 
• Managerial cognition and behavioural approach to strategy
• The Dynamic Capabilities approach
• Organizational structure and innovation

BMAN71662 Programme Req: BMAN71662 is only available as an elective to students on MSc IME

This course unit aims at developing an understanding of the main issues companies have to consider when developing an innovation strategy.  It covers aspects of strategic decision-making processes at the micro-level of the firm, organisational issues, and the influence of the evolution of technological innovation and markets for the development of innovation strategies.

 

On successful completion of the course unit, students should be able to:

• Identify the different main theoretical approaches and analytical tools used to study strategy and innovation
• Articulate the key strategic issues that innovative firms face in specific contexts
• Apply strategy and innovation concepts to real business organizations, and think creatively about alternative courses of action and recommendations for improving their innovation performance

 

Group or individual report based on topics covered in the course, with a maximum group size of four people (100%).

 

Informal advice and discussion during lectures. Specific course related feedback sessions.

Written and/or verbal comments on coursework.

Mintzberg, H., Ahlstrand, B, and Lampel, J. (2009). Strategy Safari. 2^nd Edition Published by Pearson Education. (Other editions were published in 1998, 2005).

Schilling, M. (2017) Strategic Management of Technological Innovation. 5^th edition (published by Mc Graw Hill). (The 4^th edition was published in 2013).

Tidd, J. and Bessant, J. (2013) Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organisational Change. 5th edition (published by Wiley). (The 4th edition was published in 2009).