MSc Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- MSc
Overview
Do you possess technical prowess but seek the blueprint for business success?
Our MSc in Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship is designed for the next generation of tech leaders and founders. You already have the technical foundation; we will empower you to build market-validated ventures, lead technology-driven enterprises and launch products that win.
Our hands-on curriculum champions learning by building, not by exams. Through collaborative, project-based work with real-world challenges, you will gain the complete skillset to lead a commercial organisation or launch a high-growth startup. You'll master understanding your users, validating your market, and developing the competencies to lead a technology-driven enterprise in a rapidly evolving world.
Programme highlights:
- From Technologist to Founder: This programme is your bridge. We welcome students from any STEM discipline, teaching you how to apply your deep technical knowledge to complex business challenges, giving you the complete toolkit to lead a commercial organisation or launch your own startup.
- Practice-Led, Commercially Focused: Our curriculum is centred on teamwork and solving challenges with industry partners, not on traditional exams. This approach ensures you gain practical experience in taking a technology from concept to market.
- Harness AI for Strategic Impact: In a world shaped by AI, we explore how to use it as a strategic tool to amplify your vision. 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. Master the technology that will define the future.
- 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).
- An Innovation Powerhouse: Bristol is a globally recognised hub for technology and innovation, ranked one of the top five best places in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2022). This offers an unparalleled environment to build your venture and your network.
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 in the technology sector. 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 Tech Innovator: The first term focuses on mastering the core skills of innovation for technology ventures. We will teach you how to use human-centred design to validate tech ideas, conduct primary research to define core user problems, and build the foundations to become a world-class innovator in a tech-driven world.
Term 2: Applying Your Technical Expertise: In the second teaching block, you will apply your learning in two high-stakes technology scenarios:
- Act as a Management Consultant, working for a real-world industry partner to solve a live commercial brief.
- Become a Founder, building a new, market-validated technology venture from the ground up with your team.
Summer: Launching Your Tech 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 of our MSc in Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Entry requirements
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in a Technology discipline (for example, any engineering or science disclipine, life sciences (eg biotech), computer science). Other academic backgrounds may be considered on a case-by-case basis if you can demonstrate 2 years of professional experience as a technologist or other technically-proficient role.
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. If you have the following, 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 is designed to accelerate your career as a leader or founder in the global technology sector. Our graduates possess a rare combination of deep technical understanding and elite commercial skills, preparing them to build and lead high-growth companies. 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.
- 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