MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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, policymakers, researchers, educators and wider communities across the world.

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 master’s 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.

Your future

A Master’s 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.