Entrepreneurship and innovation are terms that go hand in hand as entrepreneurs frequently innovate to achieve economic prosperity, regional growth, and social transformation.
MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation uses 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.
You explore topics including:

economic, sociological, psychological, and managerial theories of enterprise creation theories and practices of entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship skills
strategic innovation management
new venture development
how to prepare a business plan

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.
90% of the University of Essex’s postgraduate graduates are in employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2021). Many of our graduates go on to set up their own businesses or work for government and other policy making institutions or community-based organisations.