Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Overview
Innovation is the engine of growth and a priority for governments, top companies and newly established firms alike. Innovation and technological evolution shape competitive forces and change industries, while also affecting our lives and modifying societal structures.
Would you like to recognize the forces driving these changes? Learn how to make good strategic choices for creating and executing innovation? Study how to turn your ideas into market applications? Understand how digital platforms, algorithms and artificial intelligence are changing the world?
This Master of Science will allow you to build a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the process of innovation, technical change and the valuation and development of new entrepreneurial ideas. You will acquire analytical skills, decision-making abilities and a problem-solving attitude. The challenging interdisciplinary program features courses that blend strategic, managerial, organizational and economic approaches to offer insights in the process of innovation and technological change.
Learning is facilitated by lectures, real-world case studies, peer-to-peer collaboration, interaction with top scholars and speakers from the business community, thematic workshops and direct involvement in research projects. Your academic experience will be enriched by the diversity of classmates and faculty in the program with different nationalities, cultures and educational backgrounds. In addition, a partnership with the Bocconi University incubator, Bocconi for Innovation (B4i), will allow you to develop the skills necessary to develop an entrepreneurial idea and create a startup.
Graduates are prepared to cover roles related to the analysis of innovation processes in institutions and regulatory authorities, as well as a variety of companies and firms, and to hold managerial positions in innovation-focused business organizations. In addition, some of our graduates choose to launch their own startup or undertake a PhD program.
Claudio Panico
We train our students to come up with new and ambitious ideas and provide them with a broad set of skills to turn these ideas into business solutions.
Updated every year to reflect changes in the fields of innovation, management and entrepreneurship, our program will allow you to navigate evolving technologies including digital platforms and the sharing economy, learn database management and data visualization, study modern industrial organization and advanced strategy, and learn to make strategic decisions in the digital economy.
The strengths of this MSc include our highly motivated students and our dedicated faculty engaged in research at the cutting edge of technology and innovation management. The partnership with B4i Bocconi for Innovation is another key feature of the program, enabling students to turn their innovative ideas into business opportunities.
Our courses are designed to help you understand the multifaceted aspects of the innovation process: how innovative ideas are produced – including products, processes, but also services and business models – how they are created, how they reach end users and their implications for consumers, companies and the economic system as a whole. Because innovation is transversal and common to all sectors and industries, and a fundamental engine of economic growth.
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B4i Bocconi for Innovation
To respond to the rapidly evolving job market, Bocconi prepares and supports students and graduates looking to turn their innovative ideas into business opportunities. Our incubator encourages young graduates to put their entrepreneurship skills to the test, in order to accelerate the growth of innovative startups in any market sector.
Why Choose a Bocconi Graduate Program?
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Bocconi is about more than just classes
Your years on campus are about more than just the classes you attend: Bocconi and Milan also promote activities focused on culture, sports, art and sharing ideas. They help make your Bocconi experience an exciting time that is key to personal and professional growth.
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