Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship

Enhance your creative problem-solving skills, develop a design thinking mindset and learn to create a high-growth venture or drive organizational innovation with this flexible program. Customize the program to your goals through one of three specialization tracks, and gain full access to our schoolwide and university-wide innovation and entrepreneurship resources and centers.

Nurture your innovative ideas and grow them to success with the Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship MS. This master’s program teaches you to harness creativity and big-picture thinking to foster organizational growth and usher cutting-edge products and new ideas from conception to marketplace, providing better solutions to new or existing business requirements. 

Students are positioned for professional success by learning to develop;

  • A keen eye for recognizing new ventures
  • Game changing business models
  • Strategies to target untapped or underserved markets
  • Internal process optimizations for a competitive edge

Admissions Criteria

Candidates for the Fox Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship 4+1 program must meet the following guidelines for admission:

  • Meet the general 4+1 program admissions criteria.

Curriculum

Courses to Be Completed as an Undergraduate (12 credits)

Students in the Business Analytics 4+1 program should take twelve graduate credits while completing their undergraduate degrees. While the Fox School offers a recommended curriculum pathway, we understand that juniors and seniors may require flexibility in course scheduling, and have opened up alternative courses within each semester to help meet these needs.

Undergraduate Year

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Junior

Select one of the following (3 credits):

SGM 5144: Creativity Unleashed
SGM 5142: Business Model Innovation
SGM 5137: Entrepreneurial Thinking & New Venture Cration

Select one of the following (3 credits):

SGM 5144: Creativity Unleashed
SGM 5142: Business Model Innovation
SGM 5137: Entrepreneurial Thinking & New Venture Cration

Senior

SGM 5144: Creativity Unleashed
SGM 5142: Business Model Innovation
SGM 5137: Entrepreneurial Thinking & New Venture Cration
SGM 5138: Global Innovation Strategy
SGM 5139: Lean Entrepreneurship/Innovation

SGM 5144: Creativity Unleashed
SGM 5142: Business Model Innovation
SGM 5137: Entrepreneurial Thinking & New Venture Cration
SGM 5138: Global Innovation Strategy
SGM 5139: Lean Entrepreneurship/Innovation

Remaining Courses to Be Completed as a Graduate Student (18 credits)

Final Year of Program

Fall Semester

Spring Semester

9 credits, consisting of:3-9 credits of required courses not previously taken 3-6 credits of elective courses

9 credits, consisting of:3-9 credits of required courses not previously taken 3-6 credits of elective courses