What will you learn? - Master in Management of Innovation and Sustainable Business Development
What will you learn?
The MSc programme in Management of Innovation and Sustainable Business Development will give you a strong foundation in innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability management, sustainable business development and change management. You will develop in-depth knowledge and an advanced understanding within these themes, as well as in-demand skills for your future career.
In the MSc programme you will gain:
- A specialized understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship and business development through engaging and interactive activities that focus on real-life challenges in close collaboration with industry.
- In-depth knowledge of sustainability management, as well as key methods and tools for sustainable business development.
- Competence in leadership, process management, partnership and collaboration that will enable you to implement and lead changes in organizations.
Through hands on activities, you will also develop important skills such as teamwork, communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity. Our teaching approach focuses on student-centered learning giving you opportunities to work on projects, collaborate and share experiences with others, reflect on your work and to grow through challenging yourself.
Learning outcome
On successful completion of the MSc the candidate will:
- Have advanced knowledge on sustainability management. key frameworks for sustainable development and relevant tools for sustainability analytics.
- Have specialized knowledge within innovation and entrepreneurship as a field of research and practice, as well as insight into tools and methods for business development and management of innovation processes.
- Have advanced knowledge on key concepts, topics and theories in management, with specialized insight into change management and project management.
- Have thorough knowledge about scientific theories and methods that are relevant for innovation, sustainability and management.
On successful completion of the MSc the candidate will:
- Be able to analyze the need for changes to improve sustainability in an organization and give recommendations for leadership of green transition.
- Be able to use key tools and methods to explore, evaluate and exploit opportunities for business development.
- Be able to plan, execute and evaluate projects or change processes based on relevant theories and tools within management.
- Be able to apply relevant research design to address research topics and carry out an independent, limited research project under faculty guidance.
- Be able to analyze real life problems with a foundation in a disciplines history and traditions.
On successful completion of the MSc the candidate will:
- Be able to apply knowledge and skills within innovation, sustainability and management to carry out advanced tasks and projects.
- Be able to contribute to comprehensive new thinking as well as to innovation processes in existing organizations as well as through starting up new organizations.
- Be able to analyze relevant professional problems and research questions.
- Have collaboration competence and be able to solve problems in interdisciplinary teams.
- Be able to communicate professional problems and have a complete command of the technical terms of the programme topics.
- Be able to indicate problem issues within sustainable management and innovation to specialists as well as to the general public.