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MSc Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship

MSc Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

16-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MSc - Master of Science

Subject areas

Entrepreneurship Technology

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Programme overview

To launch a successful technology career you will need more than just technical skills, you will need to understand your users and your business. Come to the multi-award-winning home of innovative, design-led, creative business education and transform your prospects.

The MSc Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship will teach you how to apply your existing undergraduate degree knowledge whilst developing your design skills and commercial understanding, including:

• Starting up your career and ideas in a professional supported environment
• Undertaking applied commercial projects in collaborative teams
• Learning human-centred techniques for designing and developing ideas of real value

We welcome students from any technology-based discipline who are thinking about building a career either in technology-focused organisations or start-ups.

This programme shares much of its teaching with our other MSc and MA Innovation and Entrepreneurship programmes but focuses specifically on the development and deployment of technology to create new value.

This course will develop the high-level skills and critical competencies needed for successful organisational innovation and entrepreneurship, through a largely practice-orientated educational approach based on collaborative teamwork across disciplines and cultures.

During the programme you get opportunities to work alongside technology businesses to develop a deep understanding of their opportunities and challenges.

Bristol is a recognised hub for innovative and entrepreneurial business; ranked as the best place in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2021), home to the world's best university-run business incubator (UBI Global, 2015-2019) and home to some of the most impactful, innovative, and creative organisations in the world.

Careers

“Workers with design skills are 47% more productive in their jobs and whilst already contributing £209bn to the UK economy and that value is growing at a faster rate than the rest of the economy.” (Design Council, 2018)

You may create your own entrepreneurial venture or join an existing one. Whatever you choose, you will be able to hit the ground running.

You will graduate with a portfolio of work that shows what you can do, you may have an emergent venture, and you will have a network of contacts to draw on whether you are starting-up or seeking innovative roles. International students graduating from the pre-existing MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme have been successful in exploring their ideas in the UK after graduation. This programme is new for 2022/2023.

Modules

This unit will equip you with a toolkit of human-centred user research methods, and give you practical experience in conducting them, in order for you to understand your target users better and test your creative ideas ?in the wild?. You will use participatory design and co-production to build up your understanding of users/customers/stakeholders and where to create value for them. It aims to give you an understanding of important marketplace advantage and prevent you from wasting time, money, and effort in designing the wrong product or solution. You will define target audiences clearly, carry out a range of appropriate user research methodologies and learn how to refine your ideas based on the results of that user research.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£19,000

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£34,000

Entry requirements

An upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent in a technology discipline. Applicants with a lower class of degree with relevant work experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.