Program Overview

Do you know how to spot business opportunities and gaps in the market? On this course, you’ll explore different approaches to instill innovation and entrepreneurial culture both within established organisations and new business start-ups. You’ll learn how to combine core business knowledge with specific expertise in digital economy to launch your career as a successful entrepreneur.

• Our business management courses give you the opportunity to explore how organisations of all sizes start, run, develop and thrive.
• At Surrey Business School we inspire positive change in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by delivering impactful research and courses which promote a global, entrepreneurial and digital mindset for the future of business.
• Our award-winning Professional Training placements prepare students for roles in industry.

Entrepreneurial mindset is at the heart of innovative forward-looking organisations, striving to develop and grow in dynamic markets. Entrepreneurs are innovators who either build businesses from scratch, or work within their organisations and explore new opportunities to maximise the value creation.

This course offers a wide variety of modules on topics including entrepreneurial decision-making, managing innovation, doing business in the digital economy, developing digital projects, effective business model design, growth strategies in international markets, business planning as well as core business topics.

You’ll gain an overall view of entrepreneurial activities and explore different ways to approach innovation management and embed digital tools into the business models.

You’ll also learn how to consider financial and institutional systems in supporting entrepreneurship in different economies and gain an analytical framework for implementing innovation in the organisations of various types.

Our award-winning Professional Training placement scheme gives you the chance to spend a year in industry, either in the UK or abroad.

We have thousands of placement providers to choose from, most of which offer pay. So, become one of our many students who have had their lives and career choices transformed.

Business management with entrepreneurship and innovation placements

At Surrey Business School, we have close links with national and international businesses of all sizes, and across all sectors.

Our students have been placed in companies, including:

• 3M
• Ernst and Young
• HP
• L’Oréal
• LK Bennett
• Microsoft
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Sony
• Xerox.

Your Professional Training placement, if selected, would be taken within your chosen pathway.