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Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
How do we achieve economic prosperity, regional growth and social transformation? Our MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation is taught at Essex Business School at our Southend Campus. We use innovative and interactive teaching, such as group working and applied projects, to develop your practical business knowledge and employability skills. We hone your entrepreneurial spirit, so you can have the capabilities and confidence to launch your own venture, manage your family business or introduce innovative ideas to improve performance at existing organisations.
This course explores the entrepreneurial issues and challenges high on the agendas of businesses, governments, policy-makers, researchers, educators and wider communities across the world. You explore topics including: economic, sociological, psychological and managerial theories of enterprise creation theories and practices of entrepreneurship entrepreneurship skills strategic innovation management new venture development how to prepare a business plan Essex is one of the most entrepreneurial counties in the UK and an exciting place to do business.
At Essex Business School, we teach you to take control of your career and create ideas, products and services with real value. Our current Masters students join us from more than 40 countries and our international team of academics help you gain a global understanding of business in established and developing markets, so you can have the best foundation for your career. Guest lectures give you access to practitioners and policy makers, who share real-world experiences to prepare you to tackle the challenges facing entrepreneurs and SMEs today.
Instead of a dissertation, you can opt to complete a comprehensive business plan for your new venture or an existing business, giving you the opportunity to gain valuable feedback on your ideas from academics and industry practitioners. Our MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation is also available to study part-time and you don’t need to have previously studied business to enrol onto this course. A number of scholarships and discounts are available for Masters study at the University of Essex, including those for overseas applicants. Postgraduate loans for Masters courses are now available from the Student Loans Company for students from the UK.
We will consider all applicants with 2:2 or above, or equivalent international qualifications. For some courses, there may be additional requirements which can be found on our website.
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A Masters degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation will ensure you have a clear grasp of real-world entrepreneurial challenges and how innovative approaches can be applied to existing organisations to improve performance – giving you an excellent foundation for your future career.
Our curriculum aims to prepare you for a career as an entrepreneur, an owner-manager or a policy maker. Core modules such as Theories and Practice of Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, and Research Methods will equip you with a critical understanding of the range of economic, sociological, psychological and managerial theories of enterprise creation and development and how they apply in practice, together with an understanding of innovation at an operational and strategic level.
93% of our Essex Business School students are in employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2020). Many of our graduates go on to set up their own businesses or work for government and other policy-making institutions or community based organisations. Recent graduate startups include international business incubator 0100Ventures and entrepreneurship website SlovakSTARTUP.
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