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MSc Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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    MSc 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time, 5 years flexible

Course Description

The Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship MSc will prepare you to become one of a new generation of global leaders and entrepreneurs. At the core of the programme is the concept of transformative entrepreneurship, which involves the development and implementation of innovations to address the causes and consequences of environmental degradation, economic inequality and social injustice.

We find ourselves at a formative moment wherein growth-based financial models and increasing economic and social inequality are driving new forms of conflict, dislocation and ecological damage, challenging the veracity of our economic and political systems. These challenges necessitate a bold re-thinking of the relationship between economic activity and global prosperity.

At the core of this programme is the concept of transformative entrepreneurship, which involves the implementation of innovations that directly address the causes and consequences of environmental degradation as well as economic and social inequality. Entrepreneurship is widely associated with the promise of technological innovation and the emergence of new markets. Concepts such as social, sustainable, and community enterprise explore the potential of market actors and mechanisms to advance positive social and environmental change. The notion of transformative entrepreneurship takes these a step further by examining to the potential for entrepreneurship to provoke fundamental systemic change in the service of inclusive prosperity.

Entry Requirements

A first or upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate subject, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard from a recognised higher education institution. Evidence of extensive experience may be considered in lieu of the above, subject to approval.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

After graduation, we expect you to go on to define new routes to prosperity through working in your chosen field. Alumni have gone on to a wide range of careers including in business, industry, entrepreneurship, social impact investing and finance, policy making and politics, NGOs and the third sector, and further advanced study. The Institute for Global Prosperity also coordinates an affiliated network of young entrepreneurs in London (Fast Forward 2030) and is establishing similar networks in Lebanon and Kenya. The Institute for Global Prosperity further has a network of entrepreneurial, academic, non-governmental and policy partners across the globe with dense networks in London, Lebanon and Kenya. Alumni of this program will thus have access to a global network of like-minded transformative entrepreneurs.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  •  Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Core Concepts
  •  Researching Transformative Entrepreneurship
  •  Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Design
  •  Connected Innovation Project
  •  Dissertation in Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Optional modules

  •  Pathways to Prosperity 1: Global Legacies
  •  Pathways to Prosperity 2: Society and Livelihoods
  •  Collective Problem Solving for Inclusive Prosperity
  •  Debt, Finance and Prosperity
  •  China and Global Prosperity
  •  Urban Futures and Prosperity
  •  Social Theories of Prosperity
  •  Prosperity, People and Planet: Conceptual Frameworks
  •  Prosperous and Inclusive Planetary Futures
  •  New Economics of Prosperity
  •  Prosperity from Below: The Informal, the Illicit and the Popular

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