Entrepreneurship – (M.Sc.)

Entrepreneurship is one of the key drivers for the economic growth of countries, industries, companies and obviously new firms. Future managers in existing and new-started companies need to be able to deal with challenging issues within the organisation and at markets. This program aims to bring theoretical understanding as well as practical skills to handle different problems and opportunities related to entrepreneurship, both independently and in a business context. The program is a one-year master program with three parts or themes: Entrepreneurship; Commercialisation; and Master’s project/Master’s thesis.

The focus of the first semester is Entrepreneurship, in particular understanding and analyzing how entrepreneurs recognize opportunities and get engaged in businesses and how processes like these, and related processes as well, could be managed. It will also emphasize the understanding of creativity for individuals and teams, including idea generation and development tools, as well as research methods.

The second semester consists of two parts: Commercialisation and Master’s project/Master’s thesis. The former consists of four parts. They are: Project management; Business models; Business plan design; and International property rights. For the last part of the second semester students make a choice between two different tracks: project or thesis. The former focuses on business creation, working closely with the BTH’s incubator unit. Here the focus is on issues concerning the creation and management of new businesses and the work is concentrated to the development of business plans and a ‘live’ case of creating a new business. The latter, and second, track is writing a master’s thesis. Focus is here on academic and analytical issues concerning entrepreneurship. The two tracks finish the program, with a thesis either in the form of a comprehensive business plan (track 1) or as a piece of academic research (track 2).

Learning outcomes
In addition to the national regulated targets we have following learning objectives:
After the studies you are able to:

* be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of the fundamental concepts of entrepreneurship
* be able to analyze the entrepreneurial challenges in different contexts
* be able to master tools for creativity and business creation and related processes
* analyse and make judgments of complex situations in a business context
* be able to evaluate and undertake rigorous research or in-depth investigations into matters of entrepreneurship
* be able to demonstrate an understanding of the need to involve or consider issues of: project management, business models, business plan design, and International property rights, in relation to entrepreneurship
* be able to effectively search, collect and analyse data and information from different sources.

Job Profiles
Have you got drive? Ambitions? Do you want to create your own business or take on an entrepreneurial roll? Then this Master in Entrepreneurship program is for you!
Students of this program are driven and passionate about putting all their theoretical and academic knowledge into practice, for instance; into a small to medium sized business where entrepreneurial skills, such as creativity, drive, curiosity etc., are paramount or by starting up a business of their own. You may even be interested in working in a large company, in roles such as a project manager, consultant or specialist.

The program has a clear pragmatic approach, which means that all the components are designed to prepare you for working life. That is, by studying interesting companies, having expert guest lecturers and working with real business problems. All this takes place within an academic context, which means that the focus is not only on the practical ‘know how’, but also on the underlying knowledge and understanding.