Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Overview

Students of the Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship program at Temple University use creative problem-solving to overcome the strategic and tactical challenges that accompany visionary change.Nurture your innovative ideas and grow them to success with the Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship MS. This master’s program teaches you to harness creativity and big-picture thinking to foster organizational growth and usher cutting-edge products and new ideas from conception to marketplace, providing better solutions to new or existing business requirements. Students are positioned for professional success by learning to:

• develop a critical eye for recognizing new ventures;

• generate rule-breaking business models;

• identify underserved or uncontested market spaces; and

• rework internal processes to create competitive advantage.

Future Career

Depending in part on their prior experience, degrees, and expertise, IME MS graduates are prepared for employment in a variety of areas, such as:

• Consultant
• Corporate new venture, accelerator/incubator program, and design and innovation group
• Entrepreneurial ecosystem as accelerators, incubators, makerspaces, or venture capital
• Founder and entrepreneur
• Innovation and engineering management
• Leadership, management, and/or strategy position
• New product development
• Technical sales and strategic marketing
• Technology commercialization and scouting