MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Key information

• Duration: 1 year full-time
• Start date: September 2023
• Apply by: 1 August 2023 (international), 1 September 2023 (UK)

Entrepreneurial skills are essential for career success – whether in small and medium-sized enterprises, your own business or on project-based venture teams in large companies.

Our Entrepreneurship and Innovation MSc combines state-of-the-art academic knowledge with practical skills. You’ll learn to design, manage and grow new ventures in a challenging business world.

You’ll learn from and network with visiting speakers. These include entrepreneurs running successful and innovative social and commercial enterprises.

You’ll also benefit from our close collaboration with the Sussex Innovation Centre, NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator and local organisations that offer strategic advice for entrepreneurs, start-ups and innovative growing companies.

Accreditation

The University of Sussex Business School is accredited by EQUIS, the most comprehensive institutional accreditation system for business and management schools. Accreditation ensures rigorous quality control, benchmarking against international standards and is acknowledged worldwide.

Open up a range of career options. Our MSc is for you if you aim to work in:

• Self-employment, or manage your own venture;
• An entrepreneurial position in an international organisation;
• Entrepreneurial ventures in the public/private/third sector (for example universities and research institutes);
• Business development consultancy.

Full-time and part-time study

Choose to study this course full-time or part-time, to fit around your work and personal life.

We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, or due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. It may not be possible to take some module combinations due to timetabling constraints. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students in the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
• Leading, Managing and Developing People
• Managing Innovation
• Strategic Design Thinking for Market Value

Spring teaching

• New Venture Creation and Simulation
• Research Methods (International Management)

Summer teaching

• Research Project (Entrepreneurship and Innovation)

Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

Autumn teaching

• Digital Transformations and Innovation
• Marketing Management

Spring teaching

• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Innovation in the Creative Economy
• Managing Intellectual Property
• Marketing and Communications in the Digital Era
• Strategic Entrepreneurship

We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, we may need to make changes due to significant disruption, for example in response to COVID-19.

• 1st in the UK for annual research income in 2020/21 (Chartered Association of Business Schools)
• 3rd in the UK in the field of Innovation (Research Papers in Economics 2021)
• 13th in the UK for Business and Economics (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022)