Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Overview

AMS is on a mission… to educate and support people from all over the world who want to create new things that matter for society and truly make a difference. 

This curriculum prepares you for a future as a successful and innovative entrepreneur in your own start-up or an innovator in an existing company. A mix of professors, top entrepreneurs, senior managers and experienced investors will help you by teaching you how to use state-of-the-art theories to understand and predict reality, evaluate opportunities and build and grow sustainable businesses. 

Develop an innovative mindset

A team of top investors and design thinking coaches supplemented with successful seasoned entrepreneurs in residence will guide you throughout all the steps in the development of an upcoming, innovative business. By using various interactive pedagogic instruments like workshops, case studies, simulations, exercises, video-analysis and life cases, the course stimulates active learning and thorough understanding. As a result, you will develop the creative attitude and innovation skills of an enterprising leader, whether that is of your own start-up or as an innovator in an existing company. After completing the program, you have all the tools to score in the international job market or to start up your own company.

International program

You will be studying with people from all over the world. You will be going to Milan to learn all about business design thinking and take part in the innovation sprint. You will be going on an international growth strategy trip: every year another destination. In 2022/23, students will be travelling to New York to witness the start-up and innovation scene in a major global power city and learn how to enter this international innovation landscape. In previous years, these trips have taken students to Lisbon, Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. 

Learning by doing

This is a hands-on, "learning by doing" program: you will dive straight into practical training.

Experience what it is like to develop a start-up / corporate idea: you will be “learning by doing”.

Personal contacts are made with real entrepreneurs, seasoned investors and top managers to enable you to obtain a realistic idea of what it’s like to actually build a business of your own or innovate an existing business in today’s global context. 

The MIE program has brought fourth more than 120 start-ups. 

Learning objectives

You will develop a creative and critical mindset and learn how to apply innovative tools and techniques to solve complex problems that have a positive impact on people’s lives and on society in general. We value social entrepreneurship.

After attending this Innovation and Entrepreneurship program from Antwerp Management School :

• you have acquired state-of-the-art knowledge of, and practice with digital & disruptive business models, design thinking, innovation strategy and management, lean start-up methods and tools and marketing & finance for new entrepreneurs and innovators;
• innovation and entrepreneurship will be part of your DNA;
• you have developed the creative mindset and innovation skills of an entrepreneurial leader;
• you are able to identify future opportunities faster and to evaluate them more thoroughly so that you can make the right strategic decisions;
• you know how to turn a creative idea into a sustainable successful product or service within an existing company or your own start-up;
• you have broadened your network by meeting entrepreneurs, corporate innovators and CEOs of innovative companies during the corporate workshops, innovation and entrepreneurship labs and Master Project.

Accreditation

The AACSB and NVAO accreditations awarded to Antwerp Management School clearly demonstrate AMS’ permanent attention to quality education. AMS is also listed in the Financial Times Rankings and the School takes into account the principles of responsible management education as presented by PRME. Our EMBA has justed climbed 10 steps and is now nr°45 worldwide in the Financial Times Ranking.