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Goals

The vision of the programme is to educate business developers and managers who can integrate technological knowledge with business knowledge in an economic, social, environmental and ethical way.

Content

Students with an engineering and natural science background are given a good foundation in the various functional aspects of technology management, allowing them to pursue a management career or work as project leaders of new technology based ventures.

The Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship addresses the vision by providing a curriculum in technology management focusing on innovation theory, business development, management strategy, finance and marketing along with two science electives. In addition to the course-work, all students are required to complete an independent, 40-60 page thesis, and two internships in a science or technology-based start-up company.

Learning Outcome

The programme's main focus is on the process of transforming new knowledge or new technology into viable products and services on commercial markets. In order to do so, participants need to develop an understanding of the various functional domains of this process. In particular, the learning outcomes of the programme are as following:

Knowledge based learning outcomes

• The candidate has acquired advanced knowledge in regard to the process of bringing new knowledge or new technology to the market.
• The candidate is able to combine and apply her/his understanding of new knowledge or new technology with her/his insights from business.
• The candidate has gained an up to date understanding of the field in regard to the process of assessing the commercial potential of new technology and markets.
• The candidate has acquired a cutting edge understanding when it comes to identifying opportunities and challenges affiliated with the organization and financing of new initiatives such as new business ventures. The candidate is also aware of challenges affiliated with the rapid growth of new business ventures.

Skill based learning outcomes

• The candidate has developed the ability of assessing the commercial viability of a new technology based idea. The candidate can use various methods and tools for this purpose.
• The candidate has developed the ability of transforming research based ideas into feasibility- and business plans. The candidate can use (tacit and explicit) methods and tools for this purpose.
• The candidate has developed an ability to present new ideas to the market.
• The candidate is able to assess the need for innovation, initiate the process and run innovations in organizations.

The candidate is able to seize opportunities, organize and finance viable initiatives through to fruition.

Structure

The Master's degree programme emphasizes group work, case learning as well as project work. Students will work with real cases to a large extent, and also have internships in start-ups as part of the MSc programme.

The students will utilize their knowledge from their Bachelor degree to implement a time-limited research- and/or development project with help from a supervisor. Through the programme the candidate will acquire sufficient scientific, technical and management expertise to be able to understand issues and possible solutions.

The Master's degree shall give the candidate experience in working independently as well as being a part of a research team. The teaching methods used provide the candidates training in organizing and planning their work so that the project will be carried out in accordance with the allotted resources and within clear deadlines.

The programme will equip the candidates with skills in analyzing, evaluating and disseminating information, theories, ideas, problems and solutions in their own field of study both in writing and orally.

Internationalization

Parts of the study programme may be taken abroad. That is, at the beginning of March in the second semester, you may opt to take the internship abroad.