Business Innovation with Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (MSc / MRes) - 2013/2014 entry

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.

These programmes are designed for graduates who wish to develop a thorough understanding of the importance of innovation for rethinking management, business strategy, corporate assets, intellectual property rights, institutions, organisations, firms, entrepreneurship, and globalisation in a changing world.

This programme is also offerered with specialisation in E-Business or International Technology Management.

• Specialised focus on entrepreneurship and innovation management. 
• Helps you to succeed in a changing world which demands new skills in the areas of innovation, the digital economy, entrepreneurship and globalisation.
• Equips you with theories, principles and tools for analysing and coping with issues of business innovation.
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You will study a combination of the following modules (depending on your area of specialisation) and will write a dissertation of 15,000 words.

• Research Methods in Management I
• Principles of Organization and Management
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Innovation: Management and Policy
• Innovation Systems, Networks and Social Capital
• Digital Creativity and New Media Management
• Economics and Governance of Innovation and Institutions
• Intellectual Capital and Competitiveness
• International Business: Theories and Issues
• International Business Strategy
• option modules from around 40 management modules.

If you are interested in further research, we offer a PhD/MPhil in Management.

This programme is relevant for those who aspire to become managers, business analysts, industrialists or policy-makers.

In a recent Graduate Destination Survey, our graduates told us they were working for employers including London Underground, BT, SPG Media and Frost & Sullivan. They were working as consultants, research analysts and executives, architects and administrators.

• As early as possible, but no later than September.