MSc in Digital Innovation Management

Program Overview

The Digital Innovation Management MSc program at Loughborough University London equips students with the skills to combine digital innovation with management strategies. Graduates are prepared to launch and manage technology-based businesses, drive digital innovations, and generate revenue-generating ventures. The program combines essential digital technologies knowledge with business insights and strategy skills, enhancing business efficiency and expanding market reach.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Objectives:

• Equip students with unique opportunities to combine knowledge of digital innovation with management insights and strategies.
• Prepare graduates to stay ahead in one of the fastest evolving trends in the world.

Description:

• The MSc Digital Innovation Management program empowers students with highly sought-after skills in entrepreneurship and digital technologies.
• The program enables graduates to set up and manage technology-based businesses and enterprises.
• Students will gain advanced knowledge in driving digital innovations and inventions, and effectively generate business and revenue-generating ventures.
• This includes patenting inventions, prototyping to increase market interests, and deciding on licensing, spinning out a company, or both.
• The program combines essential digital technologies knowledge with business insights and strategy skills, enhancing business efficiency, reducing operational costs, accessing wider markets, and increasing revenue.
• This program caters to individuals entering or managing the Internet service sector, as well as those wishing to generate new digital enterprise opportunities.

Why Choose this Program:

• Top 5 in the UK for Student Experience in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024)
• Top city for digital entrepreneurs (European Digital City Index 2016)

Outline:

Curriculum:

• Students will learn from leading thought leaders, pioneering researchers, and creative innovators, exposing them to the latest theories and developments.

Semester 1:

• Compulsory Modules: Innovation Management and a choice between Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics or Entrepreneurship.
• Optional Modules: One of Digital Application Development, Information Management, Advanced Big Data Analytics, Funding.

Semester 2:

• Compulsory Modules: New Venture Creation and Dissertation.
• Optional Modules: One of Collaborative Project, Intellectual Property, Internet of Things & applications, Digital Technologies for Market Analysis, Cloud applications and services, Game Technologies and Advanced 3D Environments.

Summer:

• Compulsory Module: Dissertation.

Assessment:

• A combination of written and practical assessments depending on chosen modules.
• Students will complete essays, exams, presentations, projects, and reports.

Teaching:

• Regular timetabled teaching alongside guest lectures and projects.

Teaching methods:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Independent study
• Group work
• Workshops

Careers:

• Graduates of this program will possess the technical ability and management skills to:
• Launch their own digital start-ups.
• Join a start-up or established tech-focused enterprise.

Other:

• The program is a year-long program with full-time and part-time options.
• Scholarships are available for those who qualify.

UK fee: £13,000 Full-time degree per annum International fee: £28,750 Full-time degree per annum