MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship

University of Wolverhampton

The MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship course is aimed at students seeking to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills and capabilities.Why choose this course?The MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship course is aimed at students seeking to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills and capabilities. It is suitable for students coming from a range of subject disciplines such as business, tourism, performing arts, creative arts, computer sciences, technology, and engineering.Whether you hope to become an entrepreneur, turning an opportunity that you have spotted into a sustainable business or social enterprise, or whether you see yourself in post graduate professional employment in a management, freelance or consultancy role, then this course could be for you.In what is an ever changing and increasingly complex and competitive global environment, graduates need the skills, capabilities, and attributes to enable them to be successful. More than ever, employers expect graduates to be innovative, problem solvers that are adaptable, resilient, flexible, and willing to develop an enterprising mind set.Studying this course will equip you with the necessary skills, capabilities, and knowledge to become a highly enterprising graduate, developing your enterprising mindset, enabling you to operate more effectively in any enterprising, entrepreneurial, or innovative setting.What's unique about this course?By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills, capabilities, and knowledge to become a highly enterprising graduate.Practitioner guest speakers and entrepreneurs will enhance that experience, engaging and learning from them.The Master’s degree is taught in our Lord Swraj building at Wolverhampton City campus, the building offers 6 floors of purpose-built student space and is our Business School's multi-million-pound home.What happens on the course?You will study a range of modules exploring the topics of creativity, innovation, new venture creation, entrepreneurship, change leadership, change agency, change projects, entrepreneurial and digital marketing, and strategic operational management.The course assumes no prior knowledge of entrepreneurship, enterprise, or innovation. Much of the learning is through real life projects that you will be working on that could be developing a new business venture or social enterprise for an idea that you have or scaling up an existing idea you have been working on. The course will help you to become more opportunity-focussed, self-aware, adaptable, and attuned to the changing business environment.here will be a blend of both academic theory, case materials and in class discussions to help underpin your learning together with the opportunity of learning by doing through real-life projects outside of the classroom. Practitioner guest speakers and entrepreneurs will enhance that experience, engaging and learning from them.The intention through all these different activities and discussions is that you develop and enhance your enterprise and creativity skills, your ability to spot opportunities, your problem-solving skills, your understanding of how to make change happen and your ability to produce workable innovations.By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills, capabilities, and knowledge to become a highly enterprising graduate whether this is to develop your own innovative business ideas as a future entrepreneur or as a freelance portfolio worker or in professional post graduate employment.