Business Management with Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Business management with innovation and entrepreneurship combines the core frameworks of management education with a particular focus on how organisations create new value, drive change, and respond to disruption. Innovation is the engine of economic growth and organisational renewal, and understanding how it works, how to lead it, and how to build cultures that sustain it is increasingly central to management practice at every level. Entrepreneurship extends this further, examining how new ventures are created and grown, how problems are identified and solved creatively, and how individuals and teams develop the leadership and adaptability that entrepreneurial contexts demand.

At Birkbeck College, this four-year full-time programme develops cutting-edge skills in business, technology, creativity, and leadership. Birkbeck is a distinctive institution with a strong tradition of accessible, research-led education, and its London location gives the programme direct connections to a city that is one of the world's leading centres for startups, technology, and creative enterprise. You will study the core functions of business, including management of people, strategy, finance, and operations, alongside specialist content on innovation processes, digital transformation, and entrepreneurial thinking.

The programme explicitly combines employability and intellectual depth, ensuring you are prepared for the practical realities of working in and leading organisations.

You will develop skills in strategic and creative thinking, team leadership, project management, and the analysis of business challenges. The ability to understand where and how human management contributes to organisational success is a central thread throughout.

Graduates from business management with innovation and entrepreneurship programmes enter careers as managers, consultants, and entrepreneurs across technology, finance, retail, health, and creative industries. Many move into intrapreneurial roles within established organisations, leading innovation programmes or transformation projects. Some establish their own ventures.

Postgraduate study, including MBAs and specialist programmes in entrepreneurship or digital business, is also a natural next step.