MSc in Innovation and Enterprise Development
Course Overview
The MSc in Innovation and Enterprise Development at the London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) prepares senior innovation and enterprise-development leaders to design UK corporate portfolios, venturing programmes and enterprise-development initiatives inside PLC, scale-up and public-sector settings. Sitting in the Entrepreneurship & Executive Studies faculty at master's level, the programme runs one year full-time on-campus in central London, two years part-time online, or by distance learning, closing with a dissertation or sponsor consulting project.
The programme is designed around IOEE senior, CMI Level 7 and Innovation Leaders Forum senior competencies. You will graduate ready to lead a UK corporate innovation function or a regional enterprise-development programme, defend a scaling case to a board committee, and step into head-of-innovation or director-level enterprise roles. The sections below detail modules, audience and progression.
Key Features
- Curriculum designed around IOEE senior, CMI Level 7 and Innovation Leaders Forum senior competencies.
- Three study modes — central London campus, fully online with UK / APAC cohort calls, or by distance learning.
- Fortnightly senior clinic with UK heads of innovation, corporate venturing partners and enterprise-development leaders.
- Substantial dissertation, sponsor consulting project or applied capstone defended in front of a working panel.
- Structured executive-application coaching in the final term.
- Assessment blend of exams, a portfolio design and a defended capstone.
What You Will Learn
Innovation and enterprise development at master's level are taught as senior craft — portfolio strategy, venturing, ecosystem, regional enterprise design.
- Corporate innovation-function architecture.
- Portfolio strategy across horizons one, two and three.
- Internal venturing, spin-out and corporate venture capital models.
- Open innovation and UK ecosystem mapping.
- Enterprise-development programme design at regional level.
- Public-private innovation partnerships and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) engagement.
- Intellectual property strategy at portfolio level.
- Scaling a validated innovation through corporate or public operating models.
- Board and CFO conversations about innovation and enterprise ROI.
Who This Course Is For
- Senior innovation managers targeting head-of-innovation appointments.
- Corporate venturing partners scaling a UK programme.
- Regional enterprise-development leaders formalising their design craft.
- Consultants specialising in innovation and enterprise engagements.
- International innovation professionals planning a UK-based pivot.
Career Pathways
Graduates typically move into head-of-innovation, corporate venturing partner and enterprise-development director roles across UK corporates, scale-ups and public bodies. Typical destinations include:
- Head of Innovation
- Corporate Venturing Partner
- Enterprise Development Director
- Innovation Portfolio Director
- R&D Programme Director
- Regional Enterprise Lead
The MSc in Innovation and Enterprise Development supports IOEE senior and CMI Chartered Manager progression.
Entry Requirements
- A UK 2:2 honours degree in a relevant discipline, or an equivalent international qualification. Applicants with three years of substantive professional experience in innovation, product or enterprise may apply on a portfolio route.
- GCSE English Language at grade 5/C (or equivalent) is required for domestic applicants; international applicants meet the language rule below.
- IELTS 6.5 overall (no band below 6.0) for non-native English speakers.
- A short statement of intent (600 words) explaining research or applied interests, plus two references (one academic, one workplace or professional-body).
Why Study at LSIBM
The London School of International Business and Management (LSIBM) is a specialist business-education provider based in central London and part of Harold International College. Postgraduate cohorts run in small tutor-visible groups, are shaped by working senior practitioners (partner-level at a Big Four firm, Fellow-level at CIM or CIPD, CFA charter-holders in investment routes) and close with a substantial dissertation, sponsor consulting project or applied capstone defended in front of a working panel.
London puts the City, Canary Wharf, Whitehall, Companies House, the FCA, the Bank of England, the West End and the major consulting, banking and multinational headquarters within a short tube ride of every classroom. LSIBM postgraduates attend a fortnightly senior-practitioner clinic and a structured executive-application coaching programme in the final term.
Apply for the MSc in Innovation and Enterprise Development
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