Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The study plan is structured into four semesters and consists of 16 courses plus the final master thesis.

The first semester consists of only mandatory courses to set up a common ground. The semester starts with an introductory session to the Bitz unibz fablab. A growth mindset is a mind-breaking course that takes you to approach problems through complementary perspectives: network thinking, algorithmic thinking, and design thinking. While developing skills in modeling, coding, and prototyping, you’ll acquire new ways of thinking and reflecting on problems and solutions. Foundations of entrepreneurship provide a sound understanding of entrepreneurial logic and how to create value for customers and stakeholders.

At the beginning of the second semester, you choose the stream that better fits your aspirations and goals. Entrepreneurship is the stream for the students aiming at founding a new venture, while Innovation & Management is the stream for those students who aspire to work and make an impact in innovative firms.

In the fourth semester, students attend a project-based course to further develop their new venture (Project LAB – Startup) or to take part in a real project of open innovation with selected business partners (Project LAB – Corporate Innovation). Finally, the master thesis is an original study that gives you the opportunity to develop and apply research skills to acquire in-depth expertise in a specific topic you choose.

Every year we organize a field trip to observe and study an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Students visited Silicon Valley, Israel, Lisbon, Berlin, Tallinn, New York, Iceland, Oslo, Toulouse, etc.

Classes take place at the Bozen-Bolzano campus and at NOI Techpark Bozen-Bolzano, one of the partners of this program.

First Year

• Growth Mindset
• Foundations of Entrepreneurship
• Statistical Methods for Business Analysis Research Coaching Lab
• Economics for Management (Business Economics and Innovation Economics)
• Research Coaching Lab
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation & Management
• Entrepreneurial Finance and VC
• Entrepreneurial Marketing
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Innovation Management
• Project Management
• Market Research
• Family Business Management
• Marketing B2B and Sales Management
• Service Design

Second Year

• Startups Law and Industrial Law
• People management
• Scaling-up
• Management and Design
• Digital Transformation
• Project Lab: Startups
• Project Lab: Corporate Innovation
• Free choice courses (2x)
• Final Thesis

Exchange Programs and Internships

Peer tutoring

First-year students will be supported through personalized tutoring aimed at welcoming them and guiding them in their educational path. Each student will be assigned to a peer tutor, who, for example, will assist them in organizing their study activities, in choosing courses to attend, or with general questions about student life at unibz.

Currently, we offer exchange programs with more than 50 partner universities all over the world and we are part of a large network of collaboration with employers in Italy and abroad where you can undertake your compulsory internship of a minimum of 150 hours.

Our graduates can start new ventures. In the last years, our students and alumni co-founded more than 15 new companies. Alternatively, our graduates are hired by innovative firms, by consulting firms, or eventually join their family businesses.

Graduates express a convinced satisfaction with this study program, and the large majority of them say they would re-enroll in the same degree program again.