Course summary

If you're looking to disrupt the world with innovative ideas, discover new trends and emerging markets, and carve out your career as an entrepreneur or business leader with a focus on technology, then this course is for you. It brings together cross-disciplinary content designed to help you innovate, analyse trends, solve problems creatively, road test concepts, scope out their marketability and build sustainable businesses of the future – all by adopting a tech-first mindset. As well as gaining a deep understanding of core business competencies, you'll learn how technology can be used to shape and grow businesses, and develop your skills in effective collaboration, leadership, strategic planning, budgeting, negotiation and pitching – plus the commercial aptitude to exploit new trends and market opportunities ethically, increasing your ability to build a brand, seek funding and forge networks. From global organisations to new start-ups, studying in London offers opportunities to engage with all aspects of the business arena and gain valuable work experience. You'll join enterprise bootcamps and product development labs to learn to think like an entrepreneur – exploring funding, pitching and problem solving, and using your technical know-how to develop your creative ideas and side hustles into profitable businesses. Graduate a strategic problem-solver, with the creative and technical ability to analyse and tackle global business challenges. Integrated Foundation option The integrated foundation year has been specially designed to give you the introductory knowledge and business skills needed to confidently progress to degree-level study. It's structured around discipline knowledge, with extra modules that introduce you to the transferable skills you'll need at degree level and beyond – giving you a solid grounding in both management principles and business skills. Once you've successfully completed your Foundation year, you'll be able to progress to any of our business, social sciences, humanities or media undergraduate courses. Building on this foundation, you’ll develop specialist knowledge in your chosen course.