Master's in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship

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Curriculum
Faculty
Methodology
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Admission and enrolment
Scholarships and funding

The Master's in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship will give you the necessary tools to make strategic decisions regarding innovation and entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship. With them you will be able to generate new business opportunities in the VUCA environment and solve the new needs of the business world in a flexible and efficient way.

Agile
Project management
Entrepreneurship
Digital transformation

Next edition

Classes start: 16 November, 2023

Program ends: 08 July, 2024 (To be confirmed)

Modality

Blended

Language

Spanish

ECTS credits

Schedule

Friday from 4 pm to 9 pm and Saturdays from 9 am to 2 pm

Price

10500 €

You will get to know and deepen key aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship both to materialize your own initiatives (entrepreneurship) and to promote initiatives within an organization (intrapreneurship). For this, the study plan offers a large module of optional subjects, so that you can customize the program with the areas that best suit your professional goals.

The curriculum delves into the understanding, meaning, and importance of innovation, and its management in companies and organizations.

In terms of business innovation, you will delve into how to innovate from Open Innovation and Corporate Venturing. You will learn to identify areas for improvement in the procedures of any department of an organization or company. You will learn the processes needed to align the interests of each of the departments with the business strategy and strategic innovation.

The Master's degree in Innovation will also prepare you to identify the drivers of digital transformation in the business world and to apply new technologies to decision-making. In addition, you will learn about the main creativity and specialization tools in depth, and the biggest types of corporate information systems such as Cloud, IoT and Industry X.0, Robotics, Big Data, AI, AR, and data driven or machine learning organizations.

Under the guidance of renowned experts in the innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship sector, you will discover disruption, one of the most popular terms in current management, and how disruptive innovation responds to the threats and opportunities created by digital technologies. You will also be able to acquire the techniques of innovation and development of new products, services, and processes in order to detect new opportunities and business models.

The Master in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship includes a practical module on Innovation Design, in which you will apply the main innovation methodologies in group workshops. In them, you can apply the four most important methodologies today to a real project: Design Thinking, Service Design, Lean Startup, and Agile Methodologies.

The Master in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship is endorsed by Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Spanish university and the 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally.

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Why choose this program

Current and relevant content for the sector

You will acquire a professional profile aimed at implementing new tools and methodologies to carry out new forms of innovation management in the company, such as the execution of innovative and entrepreneurial projects.

Study at home and practice in class

The blended methodology will provide the student with flexibility to combine each subject with their work and personal responsibilities, advancing the theoretical contents on innovation and entrepreneurship at home, and then applying them in the campus classroom through dynamic and challenging workshops with expert teachers and other students.

Connection with the professional environment

We will connect you with teachers of the highest academic level and with a recognized track record in innovation and entrepreneurship, who will teach you best practices in terms of business model management and innovation in a real and tangible way.

A qualification of international prestige

With this course you will obtain a degree backed by the recognition and academic quality of the UPF, the number one university in Spain.

Study at an accredited school

Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.

Who is it for?

This Master's degree in innovation is aimed at managers of functional areas, intermediate positions, entrepreneurs, consultants, people responsible for innovation, transformation, and development of any activity sector, who seek specialization or the acquisition of tools and knowledge concerning innovation in the business world.

Also to people looking to reinvent themselves, who want to acquire tools to improve their company’s efficiency in today's volatile environment, or who are interested in reorganising their work teams.

Admission and enrolment

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Methodology

The Master in Innovation, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship in blended modality combines online training credits with on-campus classes to offer you a university degree with the best of both worlds: flexibility and direct interaction with experts and other students. The blended modality will allow you to move forward with content on innovation and entrepreneurship online, without schedules and at your own pace, thanks to a flexible and dynamic online model, while maintaining direct contact with your teachers and colleagues through classes and practical workshops on-campus.

The Master's program in innovation offers students traditional methodologies (master classes and seminars taught by experts and business professionals), active methodologies (discussion on previously assigned readings, presentation of work, analysis and discussion of cases) and autonomous methodologies (reading of assigned texts, realization of individual and group work) to achieve the qualification.

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Didactic and interactive teaching materials

Materials of various formats will make the experience more motivating: videos, case studies, tests, content maps, and downloadable resources. These materials on innovation and entrepreneurship are designed and updated periodically so that you have the latest knowledge, skills, and tools at your fingertips.

02.

Practical workshops in classes

You will carry out more than 40 hours of practical workshops so that you can apply in a real way, and as a team, the 4 most important methodologies for innovation, entrepreneurship, and decision-making today.

03.

Innovation project

Students will develop an innovation and entrepreneurship project in all its phases (definition, ideation, prototyping, and testing), applying each of the innovation techniques to obtain a specific and tangible final product.

04.

StartLab + Visits to innovation hubs

You will have the possibility to start, develop, or work on your project at the StartLab and visit the main innovation and entrepreneurship hubs in Barcelona.

Evaluation

Para evaluar el aprendizaje y adquisición de las habilidades directivas y competencias, se utilizará un amplio abanico de métodos que incluye evaluaciones finales y mecanismos de evaluación continua.

Métodos de evaluación:

Participación en las actividades planteadas dentro del aula.
Trabajo individual (casos prácticos, informes, role play etc.).
Trabajo en grupo.
Actividades en el campus global.
Exposiciones, presentaciones en público.
Exámenes.

Tools

The combination of online learning and face-to-face sessions favours the balance between theory and practice in a flexible learning process. The various multimedia resources that are made available to the student allow them to acquire knowledge in a self-regulated manner and the face-to-face sessions seek to put them into practice with active methodologies.

You will have:

Digital resources and audiovisual blocks for online learning
Face-to-face sessions with active methodologies for transferable learning
Master's or postgraduate work to learn by doing
A personal mentor to monitor your Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgraduate Final Project (TFP)

Admission and enrolment

Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.

Who can apply?

An official university degree is required (graduate, engineer, architect, diploma, technical engineer, technical architect) or equivalent diploma (graduates with studies from universities with a minimum of 180 credits), or other qualification issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that is empowered in the country to issue degrees for applying to postgraduate education.

The academic management will assess the candidates and all the documentation provided, as well as any evidence deemed appropriate (personal interviews, tests, etc.) taking into account academic and professional merits.

Although the teaching language will be Spanish, a minimum level of reading comprehension (articles, videos) in English is recommended.

How to apply?

To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through the following form.

Application for admission

Complete your application within the next admission rounds:

Round	Application deadline	Admission resolution
10	24/05/2023	09/06/2023
11	14/06/2023	29/06/2023
12	22/06/2023	07/07/2023

Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:

Complete the online admission form.
Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)

Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.

Admission

The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.

Enrolment

Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 1289.
The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.