Why choose Business Management (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) BA Honours at Middlesex?
Not everyone wants to go into an established business and simply fit into the organisation. Some people want to enter a company to shake things up and innovate their product, their brand or how they operate.
Other people don’t see themselves working for anyone. They have an idea they want to pursue by starting their own business.
Our Business Management (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) BA Honours will allow you to shape your studies to fit your career ambitions, developing your skills in order to innovate products and services in the modern economy.
What you will gain
You will have a broad range of rewarding career choices on graduation. Our graduates have gone on to work with companies such as Barnard Marcus, Dulsco, Emirates, Kimberley Clark and Santander.
You’ll have the skills to manage and grow a viable business or even start your own. We’ll support you every step of the way.
After learning the foundations of business management, digital innovation and entrepreneurship, you will have developed key skills such as analysis, research, and presenting arguments in order to excel in a management career.
Organizations need graduates who can demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills to address with the many challenges of fast-paced corporate world. We will help you develop analysis, research, interpersonal and high level communications skills. You will also have skills to start up, manage and grow a business.
You will learn to work effectively in teams and be able to present business management ideas with confidence. We also ensure you develop specialist knowledge in:
- Stakeholders – their expectations and behaviour
- The environment of business and its impact on strategy
- Design, production and distribution of products and services
- Business resources – acquisition, application and control
- Business process – planning, improvement and control
- Critically evaluate factors that facilitate or block innovation in organisations.
What you will learn
During your studies, you’ll learn practical skills in a live environment by working on group projects to develop a new product, concept or business.
You’ll learn concepts like market research, risk management and teamwork. Your project also has the potential to be developed into a real-life business, product or service.
You’ll also cover case studies on new technology firms like Airbnb and Amazon, helping you develop your own innovation skills.
This highly regarded course will help you to:
- Gain a broad understanding of key business concepts, with a strong emphasis on managing enterprise and innovation
- Develop the entrepreneurial skills needed to launch your own business or social enterprise
- Take part in practical, experience-based simulations and challenges with industry experts
- Undertake an independent placement, either through the thin (over two summers) or thick (year-long) sandwich schemes
- Take advantage of global study opportunities by transferring to our campuses in Dubai or Mauritius
- Apply appropriate theoretical concepts and analytical tools and techniques to solve technological innovation-related management problems in a variety of contexts.
