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Master of Science

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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?

This programme is designed to provide you with entrepreneurial skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. This type of competence can enable you to start and develop your own business, help smaller companies grow and scale-up faster, and contribute to restructuring and innovation in existing businesses.

You will learn how to discover new opportunities, evaluate them in close dialogue with the environment, market, and customers, and implement new solutions or business areas. An important part of the programme is to learn about handling uncertainty and risk, and developing the skills necessary to quickly identify opportunities, test solutions, and adapt them to customer needs. Implementation and cooperation skills will also be key learning outcomes.

The programme will cover the following parts of the entrepreneurial process:

  • Start-up: Development is about the actual process of starting and growing a new business. Knowledge and tools related to the entrepreneurial process, including leadership, market segmentation, business modelling and funding, are central to the successful development of profitable new companies. Explore models and tools for developing start-up companies and developing a convincing business plan.
  • Scale up: Gain valuable insight into the phases, challenges, and opportunities that businesses need to address when growing and becoming sustainable and profitable. You will be well prepared to handle these real-world challenges when further pursuing a career within entrepreneurship and innovation.
  • Corporate innovation: Examine how the innovation process changes when businesses reach the scale and size of large corporations. You will gain insight on the foundations of innovation, understanding how to gain corporate support for innovation efforts and corporate ventures.

Popular courses covered in this programme

Innovation illustration
Innovation illustration

Understand the concepts and principles of innovation theory, research and processes at the firm level.

Illustration of green earth
Illustration of green earth

Gain skills in harnessing insight from real-time change for the development of powerful and adaptable decision-making and innovation.

Illustraion of the mind
Illustraion of the mind

Get hands-on knowledge, skills, and tools through exercises and applications to understand and undertake entrepreneurial action in startups and corporate settings. 

Illustration of charts and graphs
Illustration of charts and graphs

Learn how to apply the analytical skills and functional knowledge developed in the core curriculum to understanding financing decisions from the perspective of investors, corporate innovators, and entrepreneurs in pursuit of emerging business opportunities. 

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 an MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at BI.

Why choose an MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation?

BI StartUp

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 is a community for students who are interested in building a network and building a strong ecosystem for innovation while studying. 

Career Possibilities

With a Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, you will be a viable candidate for a broad range of positions and industries, both in Norway and internationally. Below are some of our former students and the positions they secured straight after graduation. 

Maren Gaarder
Maren Gaarder

Program Coordinator at Katapult

Name: Maren Gaarder

Country: Norway

Ana Escandon
Ana Escandon

Customer Success Consultant at Kahoot!

Name: Ana Escandon

Country: Mexico

Katharina Wilke
Katharina Wilke

Innovation Lead at DNV

Name: Katharina Wilke

Country: Germany

Benedikt Surkau
Benedikt Surkau

Strategy Consulting Analyst at Accenture

Name: Benedikt Surkau

Country: Germany

Erik Johannes Rosvold
Erik Johannes Rosvold

Management Consultant at Capgemini Invent

Name: Erik Johannes Rosvold

Country: Norway

Sindre Suphellen Management Consultant Capgemini Invent Management Consultant at Capgemini Invent

"Fostering and honing the entrepreneurial skills and mindset of future generations is crucial for the tech industry. I’m very happy to see the programme equip students with the right resources, both theory and practice and prepare them to lead the future of technology."

Izabela Hawrylko

Partner Development Director at Cognite

The entrepreneurial mindset

The story of Brim Explorer is a good example of what a single person can achieve with the right mindset. To create change and innovation you need to think like an entrepreneur and have the knowledge and skills to give your idea the best chance to succeed. 

A MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is the cornerstone of a successful career in an ever-changing world. In this programme you will learn to master actual situations through experiential learning— creating new ventures and building the skills needed for helping businesses solve their problems, scaling ventures to achieve growth, and learning about entrepreneurship and innovation in corporate settings. This programme will give you an entrepreneurial mindset and a valuable foundation for innovation and future businesses.

The entrepreneurial mindset

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Customise your degree

As a master student at BI, you have several exciting opportunities that will contribute to a varied and interesting student life, at the same time as you build relevant competence and gain an advantage in the job market by tailoring your degree.

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Programme Structure

The academic year at BI is divided into two semester, one in the autumn and one in spring. There are exams at the end of each semester. This programme structure provides an overview of which courses you will be taking and when you will be taking them.

Please be aware that the study plan and courses can be subject to change.