Innovation and Business Creation, 120 ECTS

Master level

If you are aiming for a future career as a leader in the business world and willing to take on the responsibility to manage innovation and business renewal of established corporations or if you want to start your own business, this is the programme. JIBS offers you a master education in Innovation and Business Creation, building on our excellence in entrepreneurship, innovation, strategic renewal, marketing, technology management, and finance and accounting.

The challenge for managers today is to create substainable corporate performance in the long run. Scholars have tried to explain what makes strong company performance endure. Managers still find it hard to shift their attention from today’s stock price, the next set of interim results, and corporate prosperity.

Companies all over the word are facing new challenges. Globalisation has opened up new markets; competition has increased; and technological changes can be seen as either an opportunity or a threat. Global companies operate on the global as well as on the local arena with local and global suppliers and customers with varying demands. New business opportunities are created for those companies that understand how to cope with changes and how to develop new products, services and organizational solutions.

Future leaders need to be able to think differently and act entrepreneurially in order to successfully meet the challenges of rapid change in dynamic markets and competitive environments. The master in Innovation and Business Creation is designed to equip students with the competences, capabilities, and skills that are required for them to become effective leaders. One important aspect of this endeavour– yet often neglected by entrepreneurship programmes – lies in creating, recognising, and exploiting business opportunities in dynamic markets.

The Innovation and Business Creation programme enables students to study abroad for one semester at one of our selected partner universities around the world, and the programme finishes with a Master thesis of one full semester.

Degree Title
Master of Science with a major in Business Administration.

Prerequisites 
A Bachelors degree (i.e the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits from a recognized university) with at least 60 ECTS credits in either business administration, economics or engineering or equivalent knowledge.
English proficiency, see the FAQ:s.

Courses*

Semester 1

• Innovation and Business Creation
• Entrepreneurial Growth
• Advanced Research Methods
• Organising and Leading Change

Semester 2

• Consumer Behaviour
• Corporate Entrepreneurship and Strategic Renewal
• Management of Innovations
• Economics and Management of Technology

Semester 3

• Elective courses

The third semester also offers the opportunity to take courses at one of our partner universities abroad, to do an internship, to work independently on an own business creation project in coorporation with the Science Park Jönköping or to participate in a PBM project for a company.

Semester 4

• Master project

Elective courses

• Family Business development
• Corporate and Social Responsibility
• Management Accounting and Organisational Control
• Doing Business in the Media Industries
• Introductory Analysis of Experience Industries
• Entrepreneurial Accounting
• International contract law
• Financial Planning
• Environmental Management
• Creative Industry Organisation

*This is a preliminary programme of study. Some changes may occur. Contents and course literature of the individual courses may also be subject to change.