To help you best prepare for your MSc, your Programme Director has identified some pre-reading materials which will give you a head start on your programme.

In the first semester of the MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, you will begin with four core courses:

  • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation in Context
  • Managing Innovation in Contexts
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Methods of Business Research.

In addition, in the first week of teaching, you will also be studying two very short courses: The Entrepreneurial and Innovation Landscape and Introduction to Accounting for Entrepreneurs.

The E&I Landscape is a 3 hour introductory session aimed to place the material that you will cover during your core courses in context. The aim of this introductory course is to enable your understanding of the broader links that exist between the processes associated with managing innovation and entrepreneurship within organisations, and the context in which these organisations are embedded. The Introduction to Accounting course is aimed as introducing some key concepts to facilitate your understanding of the Entrepreneurial Finance course that you will study during this first semester.

At first, and depending on your academic and work background, the courses might seem intensive and although not assuming any prior knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation, it would be useful if you could skim read some of the core texts for these courses during the summer to give you a head start:

  • Burns, P. 2014. New Venture Creation: A Framework for Entrepreneurial Start-Ups (Palgrave MacMillan).
  • Klonowski, D. 2014. Strategic Entrepreneurial Finance: From Value Creation to Realization (Routledge)
  • Tidd, J. and Bessant, J. 2013. Managing Innovation. Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change (Wiley)

If you cannot get hold of these texts, other similar and equally helpful texts are:

  • Barringer, B.R. and Ireland, R.D. 2010. Entrepreneurship. Successfully Launching a New Venture (3rd Edition) (Pearson).
  • Bessant, J. and Tidd, J. 2007. Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Wiley, London)
  • Drucker, P. 2014. Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Routledge)
  • Osterwalder, A. and Pigneur, Y. 2010. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (Wiley)
  • Verganti, R. 2009. Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rule of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean (Harvard Business Press, Boston).

Full details of the core texts and readings for all your courses are provided during your induction week in the course outlines for each course.

You are not required to purchase any of the listed books. If you wish to do so, please check with the Business School beforehand.