MSc Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- MSc
Overview
Are you ready to drive transformative change from inside established organisations?
The world's most impactful innovations often come from within. Our MSc in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship equips you with the high-level skills and critical competencies to become a future leader who can both drive change within large corporations and successfully launch new ventures.
We offer a distinctive, practice-based focus: you will learn far more than just theory, applying it directly to solve real-world business challenges. This hands-on approach ensures you can create transformative value within existing organisations, whether through new product development, process optimisation or internal venturing.
Programme highlights:
- Become a Corporate Innovator: While sharing a core with our other innovation programmes, this MSc has a specific emphasis on corporate and organisational entrepreneurship, a skill set in high demand.
- Practice-Led, Industry-Connected: Our curriculum is built around teamwork and solving real-world challenges, not exams. This immersive approach ensures you gain invaluable practical experience in taking a commercial concept from idea to market.
- Master AI for Corporate Strategy: In a world being reshaped by AI, explore how to deploy it responsibly. You will learn to leverage this technology to enhance your practice and engage audiences in new ways, ensuring you are at the forefront of ethical and impactful creative work.
- Education Excellence: The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an accredited Centre of Excellence (IOEE), meaning upon graduation you will automatically qualify for an additional professional qualification—an Advance Diploma in Entrepreneurship. The Centre is also a proud national award winner for our authentic, real-world assessment, recently receiving the AGCAS Academic Employability Award (2025).
- Launchpad for Corporate Leaders: Bristol is recognised as one of the top five best places in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2022), providing an exceptional environment for your studies and future career.
Find out more about the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Programme structure
Our degree is delivered through a dynamic series of hands-on units, meticulously designed to build your toolkit for leading change within major organisations. The programme is structured across three distinct phases, with assessment based entirely on real-world individual and group coursework, eliminating traditional exams.
Term 1: Becoming a Corporate Innovator: The first term focuses on mastering the core skills of innovation within a corporate context. We will teach you how to use human-centred design to identify new market opportunities for established firms, conduct research to build a robust business case, and become a world-class innovator within a large, complex organisation.
Term 2: Applying Your Skills in Business: In the second teaching block, you will apply your learning in two high-impact, real-world business scenarios:
- Act as a Management Consultant, working for a real-world industry partner to solve a live commercial brief.
- Become a Founder, building a compelling proposal for a new internal venture or spin-out with your team.
Summer: Launch Your Venture: Your final summer project is the culmination of your learning. You will consolidate your skills to create and present a new product, service, or innovative venture, ready for its next steps.
Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MSc in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Entry requirements
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline.
We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.
We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.
If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional qualifications. Please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:
- A relevant postgraduate qualification.
See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.
Read the programme admissions statement for important information on entry requirements, the application process and supporting documents required.
If English is not your first language, you will need to reach the requirements outlined in our profile level C.
Further information about English language requirements and profile levels.
Fees and funding
- Home: full-time
- £20,200 per year
- Overseas: full-time
- £36,300 per year
Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to an 8% increase in fees each year.
More about tuition fees, living costs and financial support.
Alumni discount
University of Bristol students and graduates can benefit from a 25% reduction in tuition fees for postgraduate study. Check your eligibility for an alumni discount.
Funding and scholarships
Further information on funding for prospective UK and international postgraduate students.
Career prospects
This programme prepares graduates for senior roles focused on driving innovation and growth within established global corporations. The specialist skill set you develop in corporate venturing and 'intrapreneurship' is in exceptionally high demand. Recent graduates have gone on to become:
- Founders of their own startups in sectors ranging from logistics to supporting the neurodivergent community.
- Consultants at world-leading firms like KPMG, using their strategic skills to create lasting impact for clients.
- Corporate Innovation Managers leading new product development or strategic initiatives within high-growth FinTech companies such as Monzo and Easol.
- Programme Managers in international start-up ecosystems, responsible for evaluating and supporting the next generation of new ventures.
- Designers and Strategists within global firms, shaping the future of products and services.
Contact us
- Contact
- Enquiries Team
- Phone
- +44 (0) 117 394 1649
- choosebristol-pg@bristol.ac.uk