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?
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 emphasizes entrepreneurship and innovation as a process and not just an outcome. You 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 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 rout, 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 an MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at BI.
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
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
Program Coordinator at Katapult
Strategy Consulting Analyst at Accenture
Customer Success Consultant at Kahoot!
Management Consultant at Capgemini Invent
Innovation Lead at DNV
"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."
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.
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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.
Internship
Our internship programme is a credit-bearing course that gives you the opportunity to test subjects and industries based on your interests, competency, and personal qualities. An internship is valuable as a means of allowing you to experience how your field of study is applied in the business world and provides you with work experience that can be highly attractive to potential employers.
Elective courses
We offer a number of elective courses so that you can adapt your studies to your own interests and goals. This way you can build up competency and pursue a combination of courses that will make you attractive and unique.
Exchange
Take part of your education abroad! If you want to work abroad or in an international company after your studies, this should be particularly relevant for you. Culture and language are important in all companies and organisations, but knowledge of other countries' customs, governance and behaviour can be absolutely crucial to global success.
Double degree
Earn two master's degrees in the same time it takes to complete one. Double your insight, double your network, and double your potential!
Start-Up Development
In Semester 1, students take the core course GRA 3136 'New Venture Creation.' In Semester 3, they can further opt for GRA 3113 'Start-Up Development' or pursue an Internship or Exchange. In Semester 3, the choices include internships in existing companies or within their own startup.
Programme Structure
1. Year
- 60 credits (ECTS)
Autumn
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6 ECTS
2. Year
- 60 credits (ECTS)
Please be aware that the study plan and courses can be subject to change.
Admission Requirements
- Admission requirements for all Master of Science programmes
- Programme specific admission requirements for Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- If you are a current student at BI, log in to the student portal to find specific admission requirements in your education plan
Priority application deadline for Master of Science: 1 March
After 1 March, applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Tuition fee
The tuition fee is invoiced per semester and adjusted annually. It includes access to lectures and the standard examination fee.
Students with a bachelor's degree from BI are eligible for a discounted tuition fee. Different rates apply to students from countries outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland. Certain exceptions and variations may apply.
Read more about tuition fees.
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