Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship builds on the need for a broad understanding of entrepreneurship as practice, policy, intervention and institution. It will encourage you to think beyond standard notions of entrepreneurship towards conceptions and practices capable of engendering systemic change. In addition, it will encourage you to think critically about both the promise and limits of transformative entrepreneurship, and equip you with skills in design thinking, prototyping with enterprise stakeholders, social impact assessment, and values-based leadership. The core module on theory and concepts ('Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Core Concepts') will be drawn from a variety of disciplines with a strong focus on emergent topics and perspectives in ‘prosperity thinking’, entrepreneurship and organization theory. Complementing the conceptual aspects of the programme are modules in design thinking ('Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Design'), a connected innovation project and dissertation. Through these modules, you will be exposed to rigorous theoretical training and engaged practice. The knowledge and skills gained in the programme will support your ability to respond to the challenges of building prosperous societies through entrepreneurship and social innovation, be it as a transformative entrepreneur, change-maker or policy leader.
A unique differentiator for the MSc is the holistic, interdisciplinary, and prosperity-oriented view of entrepreneurship and innovation. Within a few decades, entrepreneurship and social enterprise thinking and practice has infused all sectors of society and is quickly expanding globally. However, entrepreneurship and innovation teaching and training remain almost exclusively within the domain of business and management schools, which are overwhelmingly focused on for-profit enterprises and Western conceptions of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. We seek to recruit and enhance the skills of graduates with existing entrepreneurial backgrounds and those working across the public, private and non-profit sectors. In particular, the programme fills a market gap between the social and public sectors where there is a need for graduates with a deep understand of entrepreneurship and trained to deploy entrepreneurial skills in the pursuit of public policy, social impact, and non-profit aims.
