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MSc PGDip PGCert Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

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    MSc/PGDip/PGCert Full time: 1 year, Part time: 3 years

Course Description

The aim of the MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management is to enable students to attain the essential critical knowledge of entrepreneurship, strategy and innovation management theory and its application. It aims to develop people who think differently, giving you the skills you need to take new and exciting ideas to market, and create successful businesses around them.

The course also gives students the opportunity to explore and critically assess what it means to be entrepreneurial and innovative in today’s global market environment. It will give you insights into and practical experience of the issues facing new business ventures and renewing established businesses through fostering creativity, design, and new ways of thinking. It builds theoretical knowledge alongside the core business skills needed to start new enterprises and transform existing ones through innovations in product, process or business models.

You will also discover how to use innovation to make a difference in your own business and in other organisations, and learn about important areas of entrepreneurship – including product development, intellectual property, and entrepreneurship theory and practice. The course builds core knowledge, raised to new levels by highlighting the networks and relationships needed for collaborative work in increasingly international markets for goods and services. You will then select from a range of options to focus your learning and execute a major practical exercise to help launch your new career.

Entry Requirements

Applicants should meet one of the following:

  • Possess, or expect to obtain, an undergraduate degree, or equivalent from a recognised University with a minimum of a 2:2 classification;
  • Have a minimum of 3 years relevant employment/ self-employment or work experience;
  • Hold a professional or other qualification, which is deemed acceptable for admission by Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Those who do not meet the above criteria will be considered on an individual basis.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

A range of bursaries, scholarships, loans and grants are available. Please visit website to find out more.

Student Destinations

The MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management graduates will have the potential to start up their own company, become far more entrepreneurial and innovative within  a larger organisation or go on to further studies at Cardiff Met. The school has the capacity to supervise PhDs and other higher awards in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation.

We will help you to identify internships, voluntary roles and opportunities that will complement your studies.

When you finish the course, our Careers service can help you find a job that puts your innovation skills to work. After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 3 years from our Careers service as you advance in your career.

Module Details

Term 1 – Compulsory Modules:

  • Entrepreneurship, Start-up and Growth (20 credits)
  • Innovation Management (20 credits)
  • Modern Marketing Research (20 credits)

Term 2 – Compulsory Modules:

  • Business Planning and Control (20 credits)
  • In Search of Creativity, Innovation & Difference (20 credits)
  • Business in a Global Economy (20 credits)

Term 3

  • Dissertation (60 credits) OR Enterprise & Innovation Project (60 credits)

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