Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Overview

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation MSc degree from the University of Reading develops and enables students to make effective decisions and take action to successfully embark on a career as an entrepreneur or manager within entrepreneurial firms. Whether you wish to set up a business, consider a career change, or advance into a managerial role, this is the course for you.

Key facts:

• Develop your entrepreneurial capabilities to enable start-up or development of an existing business
• Learn from entrepreneurship tutors who have a wide range of real-life experience
• Build knowledge on how to discover, innovate and exploit opportunities for new business
• Learn to take risks through engaging your creative thinking with peers, tutors, and external entrepreneurs
• Put theory to practice as a team of entrepreneurial consultants with start-ups during an international study visit
• Work alongside entrepreneurs in a final Entrepreneurship and Innovation consultancy with local, small firms

• Graduate with confidence to make an entrepreneurial impact

Career opportunities:

The experiences you will accumulate during your Entrepreneurship and Innovation Masters will set you up to take the plunge into your own start-up. Alternatively, you can use the inquiry and consultancy skills to complete the professional process of entering a larger organisation.

The styles of assessment correspond with communication styles used within a variety of organisations, helping you to easily transfer the skills you learn on the programme. For instance, the development of the soft skills needed by entrepreneurs to influence their supporters and customers will prepare you for a variety of opportunities in fields where new ideas, new opportunities and innovation are deemed to be important.