Business Administration - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Radboud University

Overview

In the Master's specialisation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, you will learn to understand how and why organisations innovate and what kind of people are needed in the company to accomplish this. It enables you to understand the challenges that innovative entrepreneurs face in their businesses, whether a start-up, large organisation, or SME. It deals with the commercialisation of new ideas, high-tech innovations, business development, and tapping into new markets. You will learn how an entrepreneurial orientation helps organisations to position themselves in a business ecosystem. We will help you develop a creative mindset and innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities.

Future career opportunities

As academically well-trained, and practice-minded young professionals who are qualified for positions in a broad range of business functions:

• Project leader: managing the project team developing an idea into a product/service or operations improvement.
• Innovation manager: managing the portfolio of innovation projects
• Product manager: taking responsibility of a product/service in the development and operations
• Innovator: pursue an idea and develop it into a new product/service or operations improvement
• Business consultant:  guide firms or entrepreneurs in developing new products/services or production process improvements
• Entrepreneurs: starting your own business
• Researcher in the field of innovation management or entrepreneurship
• PhD-candidate in the field of innovation management or entrepreneurship

Accreditation

This programme is accredited by the NVAO (the Dutch-Flemish accreditation organisation) and AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).