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University of Bristol: Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship
| Institution | University of Bristol View institution profile |
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| Department | School of Arts |
| Web | https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate |
| choosebristol-pg@bristol.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +44 (0) 117 394 1649 |
| Study type | Taught |
MSc
Summary
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
Teaching for postgraduate programmes in the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be delivered at our new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, opening 2026. Here, a new Centre student hub, Active Learning Studios, a hands-on Maker Space and event spaces will provide the backdrop for challenge-led learning and enhanced links with businesses.
Find out more about the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
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| 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. 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. Work experience with a minimum duration of six months, paid or internship. Roles should be within any professional setting in any sector or industry eg with a formal title role, within an organisation. See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website. |
| Location | Clifton Campus Beacon House Bristol BS8 1QU |
Fees
| England | 20200 GBP for Year 1 |
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| Northern Ireland | 20200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 20200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 20200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 20200 GBP for Year 1 |
| EU | 36300 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 36300 GBP for Year 1 |
Summary
To thrive in a disrupted world you will need creativity as well as commercial acumen. Come to the home of innovative, design-led, creative business education and transform your prospects.
The MSc Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship will teach you how to apply your existing undergraduate degree knowledge in real-world business challenges appropriate to joining innovative organisations. You'll get the chance to:
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start-up your career and ideas in a professional-supported environment,
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undertake applied commercial projects in collaborative teams,
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learn human-centred techniques for designing and developing ideas of real value.
We welcome students from any discipline who are thinking about building a career either in large commercial organisations or startups.
This programme shares much of its teaching with our other Innovation and Entrepreneurship programmes (MSc and MA) but has a specific focus on intrapreneurial activity adding value within existing organisations.
This course will develop the high-level skills and critical competencies needed for successful organisational innovation and intrapreneurship, through a largely practice-orientated educational approach based on collaborative teamwork across disciplines and cultures.
During the programme you get opportunities to work alongside innovators and their businesses to develop a deep understanding of opportunities and challenges.
Bristol is a recognised hub for innovative and entrepreneurial business, being ranked within the top five best places in the UK to start-up outside of London (Startup Cities Index, 2022), and home to some of the most impactful, innovative, and creative organisations in the world.
Find out more about the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
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| Entry requirements | You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in any discipline. If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date. 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 you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing details of your relevant qualifications: - Evidence of significant (minimum two years), relevant work experience in a formal title role within any organisation in any sector or industry. See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website. |
| Location | Clifton Campus Beacon House Bristol BS8 1QU |
Fees
| England | 19700 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| Northern Ireland | 19700 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 19700 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 19700 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 19700 GBP for Year 1 |
| EU | 35300 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 35300 GBP for Year 1 |
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