MSc Strategic Innovation Management

We're delighted to offer a £2,000 Award to all our international Masters students. This fee waiver can also be combined with other scholarships to ensure our overseas students have the opportunity to study at our EQUIS and AMBA accredited school.

Key information

• Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
• Start date: September 2023
• Apply by: 1 August 2023 (international), 1 September 2023 (UK)

Firms that innovate will outperform those that don’t – and this MSc equips you with the knowledge and skills to lead and manage innovation at operational and strategic levels.

Focusing on new product and service development in larger organisations, in both the private and public sectors, you develop an integrative approach that combines management of the market, technological and organisational changes while learning how to create value from innovation.

You’ll benefit from our collaboration with the OECD, Sussex Innovation Centre, Wired Sussex and other innovative organisations. You’ll also learn from visiting speakers about their innovation management practices.

Accreditation

The University of Sussex Business School is accredited by EQUIS, the most comprehensive institutional accreditation system for business and management schools. Accreditation ensures rigorous quality control, benchmarking against international standards and is acknowledged worldwide.

You’ll graduate with a set of transferable skills directly relevant to a range of occupations. In particular, our MSc creates opportunities for you to work in:

• Management consultancy
• Product and service development
• Business and technology analysis
• Entrepreneurial and new venture creation and growth
• Project or technology management
• Global business
• R&D and innovation management
• General management in large, multinational organisations
• Project-based organisations in the private and public sector.

Full-time and part-time study

Choose to study this course full-time or part-time, to fit around your work and personal life. Modules for the full-time course are listed below.

We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, or due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. It may not be possible to take some module combinations due to timetabling constraints. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students in the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Design, Creativity and Innovation
• Digital Transformations and Innovation
• Management Research and Practice Skills
• Managing Innovation
• Science, Technology and Innovations: Markets, Firms and Policies

Spring teaching

• Managing Intellectual Property
• New Product Development Strategy

Summer teaching

• Innovation Management Project

Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

Spring teaching

• Industrial and Innovation Policy
• Infrastructure, Innovation and Sustainability
• Innovation for Sustainability
• Innovation in the Creative Economy
• Introduction to Quantitative Research
• Management of Risk
• Network Analysis and Infographics
• New Venture Creation and Simulation
• Quantitative Methods for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
• Strategic Management (Business & Management)

Science, Technology and Innovation Challenge

You’ll have the opportunity to compete for a prize for developing novel science, technology and innovation ideas. Our Science, Technology and Innovation Challenge helps you develop skills in:

• Presenting
• Communication
• Critical thinking.

You can work on your own or in a small team. At the end of the year, you’ll pitch your idea to a panel of industry experts and a live audience.

The Challenge is optional. It’s designed to enrich your academic studies and give you the opportunity to apply knowledge gained from the course. It’ll also allow you to explore essay and dissertation topics.

We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, we may need to make changes due to significant disruption, for example in response to COVID-19.

• 1st in the UK for annual research income in 2020/21 (Chartered Association of Business Schools)
• 13th in the UK for Business and Economics (The Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022)
• Top 100 in the world (QS World University Rankings: Masters in Management Rankings 2023)