Course summary

The MSc Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship degree at Aberystwyth University is designed to appeal to anyone from any discipline who wishes to develop their skills and confidence in commercialising their ideas. Throughout the programme, you will develop high-level skills in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and management, and will learn how to manage, create and deliver value from product innovation. On completion of the course, you will have gained a detailed understanding of how to create commercial differentiation and succeed at securing investments. MSc Product Innovation and Entrepreneurship focuses on building the essential skills that facilitate the commercialisation of product ideas and the acquisition of financial backing. You will learn how to grow effective teams and develop business plans that can detail product commercial differentiation within a market, product costs, operational and marketing costs, and risks. This degree will equip you with an understanding of what can be patented and how to protect your ideas. You will undertake modules in product innovation, capital investments, strategic marketing, project management and supply chain systems. Following completion of the taught modules, you will complete an Investor Report and deliver an assessed investor pitch to ensure that you have developed the necessary skills to enable you to secure keys funds in order to grow a business. This programme has been designed to be accessible by students who have graduated from almost any discipline. It does not require detailed technical knowledge in any one field, only on what can be patented.