Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Our new BSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation gives you the opportunity to develop the skills you need to manage innovations and digital transformations in organisations. This course will also help develop your entrepreneurial skills to support new, start-up businesses. You will learn about the theories, models and roles of management, including the management of people, together with understanding rational analysis and other processes of decision-making within different organisations. You will gain knowledge and insight into the importance of businesses innovating to change in order to survive and grow.

The course is designed to respond to the changing educational, cultural, personal and career needs of our students. After you successfully complete this BSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation, you will be ready for further study, if you wish to, on one of the master’s business degree courses at Birkbeck, such as the MSc Entrepreneurship.

This entrepreneurship and innovation degree links research expertise - showcased by our Centre for Innovation Management Research - with teaching. It also links in with a host of extracurricular support, through Birkbeck’s Enterprise Pathways, for those interested in starting or growing their own business.

You can study this course full- or part-time. You can also choose your own timetable for the core modules selecting whether to study them in the evening or in the daytime.

Foundation Year If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree.

Highlights

Birkbeck's Enterprise Pathways offer you further support in starting up your own business or helping it grow, with workshops, guest speakers, events and enterprise competitions.

Birkbeck is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the broad field of management.

Our academic staff are active researchers, as well as enthusiastic teachers, and regularly publish cutting-edge articles in the world's leading journals.

We have particular research strengths in international business and strategy, the management of innovation and entrepreneurship, human resource management, corporate governance, sport management and marketing, as well as financial management and accounting.

We engage in significant collaborative research and have excellent contacts with many public and private sector organisations, professional bodies and researchers at other academic institutions.

Careers and employability

Our graduates begin new careers or accelerate along their current career path because what they learn can be applied almost instantly. For this reason, our alumni include chief executives, senior business leaders, notable academics and public figures.

You will find graduates in the following kinds of roles in business or management in a domestic or international context, in large as well as small start-up organisations:

innovation manager

new business development manager

digital transformation manager

innovation consultant

innovation catalyst.

We offer a comprehensive careers service - Careers and Enterprise - your career partner during your time at Birkbeck and beyond. At every stage of your career journey, we empower you to take ownership of your future, helping you to make the connection between your experience, education and future ambitions.