Do you want to understand how organisations can grow through innovation processes and what kind of people are needed in the company to accomplish this?

During this Master's specialisation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship you will learn about the commercialisation of new ideas, high-tech innovations, business developments and tapping into new markets.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Something for you?

• This specialisation focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship beyond organisational borders.
• You will learn about the processes to identify ideas for innovation, manage innovation and business development projects, develop a business plan or analyse business models and strategic scenarios.
• This Master's takes a broad, multidisciplinary view, examining the interactions of firms within the context of their business ecosystems.

What will you learn?

In the Master's specialisation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, you will learn to understand how organisations can grow through innovation processes and what kind of people are needed in the company to accomplish this. It enables you to understand the challenges that innovative entrepreneurs face in their businesses, whether a start-up, large company or SME.

It deals with the commercialisation of new ideas, high-tech innovations, business development and tapping into new markets. You'll learn how an entrepreneurial orientation helps companies to position themselves in a business ecosystem. We will help you develop a creative mind-set and innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities.

After your studies

You learn to understand how and why organisations innovate and what kind of people are needed in the company to accomplish this. It enables you to understand the challenges that innovative entrepreneurs face in their businesses, whether a start-up, large organisation, or SME.

It deals with the commercialisation of new ideas, high-tech innovations, business development, and tapping into new markets. You learn how an entrepreneurial orientation helps organisations to position themselves in a business ecosystem. 

As academically well-trained, and practice-minded young professionals who are qualified for positions in a broad range of business functions:

• Project leader: managing the project team developing an idea into a product/service or operations improvement.
• Innovation manager: managing the portfolio of innovation projects
• Product manager: taking responsibility of a product/service in the development and operations
• Innovator: pursue an idea and develop it into a new product/service or operations improvement
• Business consultant:  guide firms or entrepreneurs in developing new products/services or production process improvements
• Entrepreneurs: starting your own business
• Researcher in the field of innovation management or entrepreneurship
• PhD-candidate in the field of innovation management or entrepreneurship