BSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Placement Year

Entrepreneurial and innovation skills and mindset are a requisite for any businesses to succeed in today’s ever-changing world. Whether you want to start your own enterprise, enter the family business, or drive change within a large organisation, the Entrepreneurship and Innovation BSc will develop essential skills and give you tools you need to spark, build and manage.

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation BSc equips you with a robust understanding and experience of entrepreneurship and innovation. The programme is unique in that you will create, run, and grow a real-life enterprise as part of group in your second year. You will gain hands-on, practice-based experience of multiple aspects of an enterprise early in your degree course as your business grows.

Through a series of specialist modules, you will develop essential entrepreneurial and innovation skills, including: analysing data to make decisions in complex and unpredictable contexts, evaluating and realising business opportunities, creating innovative solutions, manoeuvring resources and overcoming barriers. You will also gain sought-after transferable skills, such as: resilience, collaboration, self-management and reflection, critical and strategic thinking, building and maintaining relationship, and leadership. By learning through doing, you’ll hone these skills and thrive on solving social and economic problems.

Along the way, there are lots of resources available to help you to get the most out of your degree:

You have the option to take a work placement between your second and third year in established organisations or focus on developing your start-up business. Previous placement employers have included: Adidas, Microsoft, British Airways, PwC and Nissan. Find out more on our work placement year page.

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