Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Pathway will help you unlock a growth-focused mindset and equip you with the skills needed to create and deliver real change. Open to students from all disciplines, it focuses on innovation as a life skill, preparing you to identify opportunities, develop sustainable solutions and respond creatively to complex challenges.
The pathway’s hands-on modules are tailored towards giving you the confidence and capabilities to grow impactful organisations. Through these modules, you’ll strengthen your leadership and communication skills whilst developing your capacity to design projects, integrate research, and effectively problem-solve in dynamic environments, allowing you to tackle future challenges with a vision of global sustainable value.
Key features:
- Entrepreneurial mindset development – gain the skills and mindset to think and act like an entrepreneur across startups, large firms, public, and humanitarian sectors.
- Practical innovation skills – learn tools and methods for creative problem-solving, collaboration, and driving change in diverse organisational contexts.
- Future-ready and interdisciplinary – gain capabilities that enhance employability in an AI-driven, rapidly evolving workplace, regardless of your discipline or faculty.
- Innovation as a life skill – understand how to manage high-velocity reinvention processes and create sustainable value with limited resources.
- Applied, project-based learning – engage in hands-on workshops, real-world problem solving, and case studies to bridge theory and practice.
- Sustainable and impactful solutions – explore innovation and entrepreneurship approaches to tackle global challenges like climate change, poverty, and biodiversity loss.
- Transformative leadership focus – become a change leader capable of delivering solutions that shape a positive future for all.
Module content:
Future Skills Pathways consist of 60 credits. You will study modules equivalent to 30 credits in year 2 of your degree and 30 credits in your final year. All modules are compulsory.
| Module Code | Module Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BEM2062 (Streatham) BEP2003 (Penryn) |
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Mindset | 15 credits |
| BEM2058 (Streatham) BEP2005 (Penryn) |
Making Innovation and Entrepreneurship Happen | 15 credits |
| BEM3090 (Streatham) BEP3005 (Penryn) |
Rethinking Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 15 credits |
| BEM3061 (Streatham) BEP3001 (Penryn) |
Business Ignition - Idea to Implementation | 15 credits |