MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Course Overview
Starting and scaling a real business is the point of the MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at LSCT — a one-year postgraduate degree inside the Business & Commerce department, designed for founders, intrapreneurs and operators who want a serious MBA without losing twelve months of momentum on their venture. Taught from our central London base across on-campus, online and distance-learning routes from 2026, the programme is structured around an actual business: yours, a co-founded venture, or a corporate innovation project sponsored by your employer.
You will move from market discovery and customer development into fundraising mechanics, unit economics, growth experimentation and the operational realities of UK company building — Companies House compliance, EMI options, R&D tax credits, SEIS/EIS structures and the visa rules founders actually live with. By the end of the MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation you will pitch your venture to a London angel-and-VC panel and leave with a board-ready deck, financial model and term-sheet literacy.
Key Features
- UK postgraduate MBA aligned with CMI (Chartered Management Institute) Level 7 and informed by working UK founders, investors and operators.
- Bring-your-own-venture model — coursework is structured around a real or in-development business, not a textbook case.
- Three study modes — on-campus near the City and Old Street, fully online with live founder clinics, or distance learning with monthly milestone deadlines.
- Investor demo day — final pitch to a panel of London-based angel investors, seed VCs and corporate venture leads.
- Module on UK founder mechanics covering SEIS/EIS, EMI, R&D tax credits, SPVs and the Innovator Founder visa route.
- Mentor pairing with a working London founder or operator throughout the year.
What You Will Learn
The MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation is structured around three taught semesters plus a venture-defining capstone. You will graduate able to write a board paper, model a cap table, run a customer-development sprint and recover from a missed quarter with the discipline real businesses require.
- Lean Customer Development and Validation
- Founder Finance — Cap Tables, SAFEs and Convertibles
- Unit Economics, Pricing and Growth Models
- UK Investor Landscape (Angels, Seed VC, Growth, CVC)
- Innovation in Established Firms and Corporate Venturing
- Strategy, Competitive Positioning and Defensibility
- People, Hiring and Founder Leadership
- UK Founder Compliance (Companies House, HMRC, ICO)
- Pitching, Storytelling and Board Communication
The teaching pattern is intentionally practitioner-led. Each module pairs taught content with at least one applied exercise — a real published filing, a working consulting deck, an actual board paper or a live UK regulatory question — and you are expected to read, comment and contribute. That working rhythm gives our graduates the day-one credibility UK commercial employers test at interview, and is part of why our placement and graduate-job conversion rates compare well with much larger UK providers.
Who This Course Is For
- Early-stage founders with a venture in motion who want structure, network and capital readiness.
- Intrapreneurs and corporate innovators leading new-product or new-market workstreams inside larger firms.
- Senior operators ready to move from employed roles into co-founder or first-employee positions.
- International applicants targeting UK Innovator Founder visa support or London ecosystem access.
Career Pathways
MBA graduates either return to or build the ventures that define London's start-up economy — from fintech and healthtech to climate, deeptech and the creative industries. The MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation is calibrated to make you investable by the end of the year. Typical destinations include:
- Founder / Co-founder (own venture, funded or bootstrapped)
- Founding Engineer / Founding Operator (Seed or Series A)
- Head of Innovation (corporate)
- Venture Associate (early-stage UK VC)
- Corporate Venture Manager
- Innovation Consultant (boutique)
The MBA also serves as a strong foundation for postgraduate research in entrepreneurship, technology policy or corporate venturing.
You will also build the network that underpins UK commercial careers: an alumni community across the FTSE 250, the consultancies and the scale-up cluster, a working tutor team drawn from current practice, and an annual industry careers afternoon at which UK recruiters take CVs and book follow-up conversations with current students.
Entry Requirements
- A UK 2:2 honours degree (or international equivalent) in any subject — at least two years of professional or founder experience is strongly preferred for this programme.
- Applicants from non-cognate fields may apply with five years' senior professional experience or a demonstrable trading venture.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- A personal statement, two references and a short venture brief (500-800 words) describing the business you will build during the year.
Across the programme you build the commercial fluency UK boards now expect at every level: clean numbers, sharp written communication, defensible decisions and the ability to read a room. Guest sessions with working consultants, finance leaders and senior operators give you direct insight into how UK businesses actually run quarterly reviews, board meetings and strategic decisions under pressure.
Why Study at LSCT
The London School of Commerce and Technology (LSCT) is a specialist higher-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. We teach in small cohorts so every student is visible to their tutor, run a single intake schedule that students can rely on, and partner with UK professional bodies so qualifications carry weight with employers. London puts Whitehall, the City, Silicon Roundabout, the Royal Courts of Justice, the West End and the NHS estate within a short tube ride of every classroom — and our students use that proximity in their projects, placements and graduate job hunts. For entrepreneurship students that proximity is decisive: London hosts more seed-stage capital than any other European city, and our demo days draw partners from the funds founders actually pitch.
Our graduates work across the London commercial economy — from the Magic Circle adjacencies of the City to the SaaS clusters around Old Street, the consulting houses of the West End and the FTSE 250 head offices that span Mayfair to Paddington. LSCT's employability team keeps an annual employer map current and brokers introductions where it can, and our alumni network spans UK firms and international employers.
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