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Business Innovation with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (MSc) Business Innovation with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (MSc) Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

Masters Degree , Entrepreneurship

Course Description

Technological change and the digital economy raise new economic and managerial challenges for businesses and public and private sector organisations. Birkbeck is a centre for excellence in research and inspirational teaching in business innovation.

This postgraduate degree in business innovation, with a special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation management, is designed to help you understand the importance of innovation for rethinking management, business strategy, corporate assets, intellectual property rights, institutions, organisations, firms, entrepreneurship and globalisation in a changing world. It will equip you with theories, principles and tools for analysing and coping with business innovation issues.

The programme is also offered with specialisation in E-Business or International Technology Management.

Course Content

You complete eight modules (totalling 120 credits) and write a 12,000-word dissertation (worth 60 credits).

You take six compulsory modules, and choose one module from the list of option modules below and one from the range of Department of Management option modules (or from other departments, subject to approval).

FULL-TIME MODULES

  • Entrepreneurial Venture Creation
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Innovation Systems: Networks and Social Capital
  • Innovation: Management and Policy
  • Principles of Organization and Management
  • Research Methods in Management (Postgraduate)

PART-TIME MODULES - YEAR 1

  • Innovation Systems: Networks and Social Capital
  • Innovation: Management and Policy
  • Principles of Organization and Management

PART-TIME MODULES - YEAR 2

  • Entrepreneurial Venture Creation
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Research Methods in Management (Postgraduate)

OPTION MODULES

  • Blockchain Technology and Its Impact on Innovation, Management and Policy
  • Digital Business
  • Digital Creativity and New Media Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Innovation and the Knowledge Economy
  • Intellectual Capital and Competitiveness

MSC BUSINESS INNOVATION WITH ENTREPRENEURSHIP DISSERTATION

  • MSc Dissertation

 

Entry Requirements

Our standard postgraduate entry requirement is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university, or an equivalent international qualification.

We will review every postgraduate application to Birkbeck on its individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.

On your application form, please list all your relevant qualifications and experience, including those you expect to achieve.

Apply now to secure your place and allow enough time for the application and enrolment process. You do not need to have completed your current qualification to start your application.

INTERNATIONAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Our standard postgraduate entry requirement for international students is a second-class honours degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university or an equivalent international qualification.

If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests. Some courses may require higher scores, particularly in the following subject areas:

  • arts management
  • cultural studies
  • development studies
  • film and media
  • geography
  • history
  • law
  • organizational psychology
  • psychology.

Please carefully check the Course-Specific Entry Requirements on your chosen programme for details of higher English language entry requirements.

VISA REQUIREMENTS

If you are not from the European Economic Area (EEA) and/or Switzerland and you are coming to study in the UK, you may need to apply for a visa.

The visa you apply for varies according to the length of your course:

  • Courses of more than six months' duration.
  • Courses of less than six months' duration.
  • Pre-sessional English language courses.

International students who require a Tier 4 visa should apply for our full-time courses (with the exception of modular enrolment certificates of higher education and graduate certificates), as these qualify for Tier 4 sponsorship. If you are living in the UK on a Tier 4 visa, you will not be eligible to enrol as a student on Birkbeck's part-time courses (with the exception of some modules).

Assessment Methods

Assessment is an integral part of your university studies and usually consists of a combination of coursework and examinations, although this will vary from course to course - on some of our courses, assessment is entirely by coursework. The methods of assessment on this course are specified below under 'Methods of assessment on this course'. You will need to allow time to complete coursework and prepare for exams.

Where a course has unseen written examinations, these may be held termly, but, on the majority of our courses, exams are usually taken in the Summer term, during May to June. Exams may be held at other times of the year as well. In most cases, exams are held during the day on a weekday - if you have daytime commitments, you will need to make arrangements for daytime attendance - but some exams are held in the evening. Exam timetables are published online.

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