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Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Your route to innovation

On this page you can find more details about the curriculum and program structure. 

The Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program begins in September each year and lasts for 24 months. The full two-year program is worth 120 ECTS credits.

The program is split between foundational courses and advanced electives: 

  • Foundation courses covering the most important aspects of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. 

  • Advanced electives delve deeper into specific industries and applications that will help you progress towards your career goals. 

Program timeline

x
Term 1
September - December

Term one

Core courses, including 

  • Business Economics 
  • Judgement and Decisionmaking 
  • Financial Management and Corporate Finance 
  • Financial Accounting 
  • Economics of Innovation and New Technology 
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship
  • Foundations of Strategic Management

Skills seminar

  • Business Presentations
  • Fluency: Professional English
  •  The Do’s and Don’ts of meeting
    effectively
  • Coding (mandatory for MAAI)

Term one

Core courses, including 

  • Business Economics 
  • Judgement and Decisionmaking 
  • Financial Management and Corporate Finance 
  • Financial Accounting 
  • Economics of Innovation and New Technology 
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship
  • Foundations of Strategic Management

Skills seminar

  • Business Presentations
  • Fluency: Professional English
  •  The Do’s and Don’ts of meeting
    effectively
  • Coding (mandatory for MAAI)
September
December
January
March
x
Term 2
January - March

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Operations and Global
    Supply Chain Management
  • Managing Organizations in a
    Global Context
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance and
    FinTech
  • Innovation Policy and
    Regulation
  • Design Thinking
  •  Organizing for Innovation
  • Vali Sustainability Bootcamp 

Skills seminar

  • Process Mining
  • The Psychology of Conflict
    Resolution
  • Cross Cultural Management
  • Effective Virtual Collaboration
  • SCRUM

Foreign language classes

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Operations and Global
    Supply Chain Management
  • Managing Organizations in a
    Global Context
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance and
    FinTech
  • Innovation Policy and
    Regulation
  • Design Thinking
  •  Organizing for Innovation
  • Vali Sustainability Bootcamp 

Skills seminar

  • Process Mining
  • The Psychology of Conflict
    Resolution
  • Cross Cultural Management
  • Effective Virtual Collaboration
  • SCRUM

Foreign language classes

x
Term 3
April - September

Summer immersion

During the summer months you will gain practical experience at an internship at a startup or by working on your own company during the Summer Entrepreneurship Program with Vali Berlin.

 

Summer immersion

During the summer months you will gain practical experience at an internship at a startup or by working on your own company during the Summer Entrepreneurship Program with Vali Berlin.

 

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Summer Entrepreneurship Program

The Summer Entrepreneurship Program helps entrepreneurial talents to develop and expand upon their startup ideas: from finding co-founders, identifying trends or problems and finding and building solutions, to pitching in front of Venture Capitalists (VCs) and angel investors. 

The teams benefit from expert mentoring, access to the ESMT and Vali Berlin network, and a structured program of workshops by entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Berlin's startup scene. 

Internship Option

In coordination with ESMT, you may alternatively choose to complete an internship of up to six months with a company and industry that meets your career goals. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad. 

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities. 

April
September
October
December
x
Term 4
October - December

Term four 

Electives, including 

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Doing Business Sustainably
  •  Data Science for Analytics
  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability
  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools
  • Survey Design
  • Innovating with AI: Large Language
  • Models in Business
  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing
  • International Finance
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing I
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing II
  • Ambidextrous Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management
  • Building Professional Networks
  • Consulting
  • Designing for Social Inclusion
  • Human Rights in Business
  • Innovation Project Management
  • Storytelling 
     

Practice experience 

Foreign language classes

Term four 

Electives, including 

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Doing Business Sustainably
  •  Data Science for Analytics
  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability
  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools
  • Survey Design
  • Innovating with AI: Large Language
  • Models in Business
  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing
  • International Finance
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing I
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing II
  • Ambidextrous Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management
  • Building Professional Networks
  • Consulting
  • Designing for Social Inclusion
  • Human Rights in Business
  • Innovation Project Management
  • Storytelling 
     

Practice experience 

Foreign language classes

x
Term 5
January - May

Term five

Electives 

  • Negotiation
  • Open and Distributed Models of
    Innovation
  •  Analytics and AI for Healthcare
    Management
  • Advanced Optimization Models
  • Analytics Leadership
  • AI Models in Production
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Risk Modeling
  • Valuation

+ MGM and MAAI core courses

 

Skills seminar

  • Applied Improvisation and Creativity
  • Cyber Security
  • Impact Consulting
  • LEGO Serious Play

Practice experience 

  • Next - B2B Accelerator Program
  • Deep Tech Innovation Program
  • Social Impact Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week  

Foreign language classes 

Term five

Electives 

  • Negotiation
  • Open and Distributed Models of
    Innovation
  •  Analytics and AI for Healthcare
    Management
  • Advanced Optimization Models
  • Analytics Leadership
  • AI Models in Production
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Risk Modeling
  • Valuation

+ MGM and MAAI core courses

 

Skills seminar

  • Applied Improvisation and Creativity
  • Cyber Security
  • Impact Consulting
  • LEGO Serious Play

Practice experience 

  • Next - B2B Accelerator Program
  • Deep Tech Innovation Program
  • Social Impact Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week  

Foreign language classes 

January
May
May
August
x
Term 6
May - August

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Program timeline

September
December
x
Term 1
September - December

Term one

Core courses, including 

  • Business Economics 
  • Judgement and Decisionmaking 
  • Financial Management and Corporate Finance 
  • Financial Accounting 
  • Economics of Innovation and New Technology 
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship
  • Foundations of Strategic Management

Skills seminar

  • Business Presentations
  • Fluency: Professional English
  •  The Do’s and Don’ts of meeting
    effectively
  • Coding (mandatory for MAAI)

Term one

Core courses, including 

  • Business Economics 
  • Judgement and Decisionmaking 
  • Financial Management and Corporate Finance 
  • Financial Accounting 
  • Economics of Innovation and New Technology 
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship
  • Foundations of Strategic Management

Skills seminar

  • Business Presentations
  • Fluency: Professional English
  •  The Do’s and Don’ts of meeting
    effectively
  • Coding (mandatory for MAAI)
January
March
x
Term 2
January - March

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Operations and Global
    Supply Chain Management
  • Managing Organizations in a
    Global Context
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance and
    FinTech
  • Innovation Policy and
    Regulation
  • Design Thinking
  •  Organizing for Innovation
  • Vali Sustainability Bootcamp 

Skills seminar

  • Process Mining
  • The Psychology of Conflict
    Resolution
  • Cross Cultural Management
  • Effective Virtual Collaboration
  • SCRUM

Foreign language classes

Term two

Core courses, including

  • Operations and Global
    Supply Chain Management
  • Managing Organizations in a
    Global Context
  • Marketing Management
  • Entrepreneurial Finance and
    FinTech
  • Innovation Policy and
    Regulation
  • Design Thinking
  •  Organizing for Innovation
  • Vali Sustainability Bootcamp 

Skills seminar

  • Process Mining
  • The Psychology of Conflict
    Resolution
  • Cross Cultural Management
  • Effective Virtual Collaboration
  • SCRUM

Foreign language classes

April
September
x
Term 3
April - September

Summer immersion

During the summer months you will gain practical experience at an internship at a startup or by working on your own company during the Summer Entrepreneurship Program with Vali Berlin.

 

Summer immersion

During the summer months you will gain practical experience at an internship at a startup or by working on your own company during the Summer Entrepreneurship Program with Vali Berlin.

 

show more
Summer Entrepreneurship Program

The Summer Entrepreneurship Program helps entrepreneurial talents to develop and expand upon their startup ideas: from finding co-founders, identifying trends or problems and finding and building solutions, to pitching in front of Venture Capitalists (VCs) and angel investors. 

The teams benefit from expert mentoring, access to the ESMT and Vali Berlin network, and a structured program of workshops by entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Berlin's startup scene. 

Internship Option

In coordination with ESMT, you may alternatively choose to complete an internship of up to six months with a company and industry that meets your career goals. German students are encouraged to complete their internship abroad. 

ESMT currently works with a growing number of companies to offer internships.

Please note that while ESMT has agreements with internship providers to offer internships, participants are still required to apply and pass the target company’s selection procedures. Participants may also source their own internship opportunities. 

October
December
x
Term 4
October - December

Term four 

Electives, including 

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Doing Business Sustainably
  •  Data Science for Analytics
  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability
  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools
  • Survey Design
  • Innovating with AI: Large Language
  • Models in Business
  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing
  • International Finance
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing I
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing II
  • Ambidextrous Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management
  • Building Professional Networks
  • Consulting
  • Designing for Social Inclusion
  • Human Rights in Business
  • Innovation Project Management
  • Storytelling 
     

Practice experience 

Foreign language classes

Term four 

Electives, including 

  • MARGA Strategy Simulation
  • Doing Business Sustainably
  •  Data Science for Analytics
  •  Modeling and AI for Sustainability
  • The Data Scientist: Modern Tools
  • Survey Design
  • Innovating with AI: Large Language
  • Models in Business
  • Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing
  • International Finance
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing I
  • Investments: Portfolio Theory and
    Asset Pricing II
  • Ambidextrous Leadership

Skills seminar

  • Analytics Project Management
  • Building Professional Networks
  • Consulting
  • Designing for Social Inclusion
  • Human Rights in Business
  • Innovation Project Management
  • Storytelling 
     

Practice experience 

Foreign language classes

January
May
x
Term 5
January - May

Term five

Electives 

  • Negotiation
  • Open and Distributed Models of
    Innovation
  •  Analytics and AI for Healthcare
    Management
  • Advanced Optimization Models
  • Analytics Leadership
  • AI Models in Production
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Risk Modeling
  • Valuation

+ MGM and MAAI core courses

 

Skills seminar

  • Applied Improvisation and Creativity
  • Cyber Security
  • Impact Consulting
  • LEGO Serious Play

Practice experience 

  • Next - B2B Accelerator Program
  • Deep Tech Innovation Program
  • Social Impact Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week  

Foreign language classes 

Term five

Electives 

  • Negotiation
  • Open and Distributed Models of
    Innovation
  •  Analytics and AI for Healthcare
    Management
  • Advanced Optimization Models
  • Analytics Leadership
  • AI Models in Production
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Advanced Investment Strategies
  • Alternative Investments
  • Risk Modeling
  • Valuation

+ MGM and MAAI core courses

 

Skills seminar

  • Applied Improvisation and Creativity
  • Cyber Security
  • Impact Consulting
  • LEGO Serious Play

Practice experience 

  • Next - B2B Accelerator Program
  • Deep Tech Innovation Program
  • Social Impact Project

Introduction to Research Method + Research Strategies Week  

Foreign language classes 

May
August
x
Term 6
May - August

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Master thesis

While working on your Master thesis, you may seek the opportunity of a second internship and carry out your research with support from practitioners. Alternatively, particularly those who intend to pursue an academic career, you may opt for working on a thesis topic in close coordination with a professor’s own research agenda.

Additional options include:

Summer innovation & entrepreneurship programs

  • Join Vali Berlin's Summer Entrepreneurship Program from April to July to develop and elaborate your own startup idea

  • Receive expert mentoring, access to the ESMT and Vali Berlin network, and a structured program of workshops by entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Berlin's startup scene

  • Alternatively, take up an internship for up to six months at one of ESMT's many corporate partners and delve deep into the world of corporate innovation, giving you invaluable practical insights and preparing you to customize your learning journey in Year 2 of your degree

Winter innovation & entrepreneurship programs

  • Join the NEXT program to accelerate your start-up in product-market fit, human capital, fundraising, legal, administrative, and tax issues
  • or join the Deep Tech Innovation Program to get insider insights from founders in science- and technology-based startups and advice on how to implement your own innovative new ideas and strategies.
  • or join the Corporate Innovation Project to deliver an innovation consulting project or develop venture ideas together with a corporate partner.

An exciting path awaits you

Create your own journey

Interested in data management?

Want to know more about machine learning or global operations and supply chains? 

Innovation thrives on cross-pollination. To facilitate this, you can choose from a broad selection of electives including any core course from other ESMT master programs to form your own tailor made learning journey.

 

Learn by experimenting

Your time in the MIE is an opportunity to experiment and learn in a safe space.

Try out deep tech, entrepreneurship, corporate innovation or embark on an international exchange program.

You will always find yourself in a collaborative and stimulating environment that fosters creative thinking, while sitting next to data scientists and general managers to collaborate and learn from each other.

 

Prepare for employment

The MIE primes you for success by equipping you with the core business skills needed to take your innovation skills and apply them successfully in real-life business contexts.

 

 

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Collaborative learning

Modern business is global - ESMT students thrive in a global environment

There a numerous advantages that a diverse international cohort brings to your personal development, but the biggest is the exposure you will get to new ideas, new perspectives and alternative experiences.

With over 30 nationalities represented in the classroom, ESMT's unique approach to collaborative learning means that working and thriving in the diverse and international teams of a global business or ascendant startup will come as second nature.

Meet the MIE Faculty

Angeliki Papachroni

Nationality: Greece 
 

Education: University of Warwick, Ph.D.
 

Research area/focus: Strategy & innovation 

Courses taught: Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Organizing for Innovation
 

Linus Dahlander

Nationality: Sweden 


Education: Chalmers University of Technology, Ph.D. and Stanford University, Post doc.


Courses taught: Innovation, entrepreneurship, new technologies 

Matthias Qian

Nationality: Germany 
 

Education: University of Oxford, Ph.D.
 

Research area/focus: AI and entrepreneurship 
 

Courses taught: Econometrics, Large language models  

Jens Weinmann

Nationality: Germany
 

Education: London Business School
 

Research area/focus: Innovation, digital transformation, design thinking, energy transformation, sustainability
 

Courses taught: Design Thinking, Sustainable Energy Future

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ESMT's international faculty combine the very best business teachers and researchers from around the world, brought together in Berlin to share their experience in business practice and thought leadership with a passion that puts the learning experience before everything else.

Situated in state-of-the-art facilities and supported by a world-class community of entrepreneurs and corporate partners, ESMT Berlin has laid the foundations for innovative research and excellence in the classroom.

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