Get an entrepreneurial mindset and shape your own future. This master’s programme gives you the knowledge and skills you need to start your own company, or to work with innovation in existing businesses.

What will you learn?

Be a changemaker. This master’s programme prepares you to take the lead in transforming innovative ideas into impact. You will develop an entrepreneurial mindset, paired with the analytical and digital skills to spot opportunities, assess and scale them, and create sustainable value. The programme emphasises innovation and entrepreneurship as a process and not just an outcome. You will gain hands-on experience with analytical tools for decision making, including Python and other tools for data analysis, financial modelling software, and customer analytics platforms. You will build market insight through customer discovery, data analytics and selected AI tools (used responsibly with good data governance).

The programme covers entrepreneurial finance in depth: from bootstrapping and angel investment to venture capital, corporate venture capital, and growth financing strategies. You will learn how innovation ecosystems work, including accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing programmes. Regardless of the route, you’ll learn to plan and execute from idea to implementation across the entire entrepreneurial spectrum.

You will learn to: 

• design, test, and refine business models, and build financial plans for different growth paths
• identify and assess opportunities using market analysis, customer insight, and financing trends
• prototype and experiment, analyse results, and adapt quickly to feedback and risk
• use data and AI for market and product insight, ethically and with solid data governance
• pitch clearly, negotiate and manage stakeholders, and build the right team and partnerships

Why choose this programme?

Engaging learning experiences and quality teaching are something we strive to provide to help you build a solid skill and competency base, making you relevant for the future of work. In the video below, you will get the perspectives of our students, faculty, and the industry to understand the reasons for choosing to study a Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at BI.

BI Startup Village

Being innovative and thinking like an entrepreneur is not something that happens in a vacuum. You are dependent on other people who can challenge your ideas and give you valuable input that can be decisive for whether you succeed or not. BI Startup Village is a community for students who are interested in building a network and a strong ecosystem for innovation while studying. 

• BI Startup Village

Career Possibilities

Employers value these graduates because they take ideas from problem to proven solution, creating clear business cases and scalable ways of working that lower risk and speed results; the same skills also equip you to launch and grow your own venture. 

Examples of areas you can work in: 

• new venture creation and growth – identify an opportunity, build a simple prototype, test with customers, plan launch and early scaling
• corporate innovation (inside established companies) – create new products/services, run pilots, measure results and scale corporate ventures
• venture finance and investment – assess start-ups and scale-ups, analyse markets and business models, identify deal flow, conduct due diligence, and make investment decisions
• product and market development – turn customer insight into features and pricing, choose channels, and build repeatable growth
• consulting– be a management consultant focused on strategic change, innovation, and growth in different industries