MA Business with Enterprise and Innovation
About this course
Business with enterprise and innovation takes a distinctive angle on management education, placing entrepreneurial thinking and the process of creating new value at the centre of the curriculum. Enterprise is not simply about starting companies: it is a way of approaching problems, identifying opportunities, mobilising resources, and driving change within and beyond established organisations. Innovation examines the systematic process of generating, developing, and implementing new ideas, whether in products, services, processes, or business models, and the conditions that make it more or less likely to succeed. The University of Edinburgh's four-year full-time programme includes a year abroad, reflecting the genuinely international character of entrepreneurship and innovation in a connected global economy. Edinburgh's business school benefits from the university's broader intellectual environment and from the city's growing reputation as a centre for financial technology, life sciences, data, and creative industries. You will study business fundamentals including strategy, finance, marketing, and organisational behaviour, alongside courses in entrepreneurial theory and practice, design thinking, innovation management, opportunity recognition, and venture development. The programme encourages you to develop your own entrepreneurial capabilities through project work and engagement with the business community. Graduates from business with enterprise and innovation programmes go on to start their own ventures, join growth-stage companies in commercial and product roles, work in innovation and strategy functions within large organisations, or move into consultancy, venture capital, and business development. The combination of management foundations with an entrepreneurial mindset is valued across every sector facing disruption or seeking growth. Many graduates continue to postgraduate study in entrepreneurship, innovation management, or business, or move directly into building ventures.
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