Business Management (Innovation and Enterprise) (Honours)

Overview

What roles do innovators and entrepreneurs play? How do you negotiate creative solutions to ‘real world’ problems? What makes for a convincing new venture proposal? 

In this specialist route available in the Business Management (Innovation and Enterprise) (Honours) course from The Open University UK , you will develop an interdisciplinary perspective on the management of business organisations and a distinctive combination of skills, knowledge and understanding around innovation, enterprise and related fields such as creativity and design.

Key features of the course

• Explores and analyses the interdisciplinary nature of business management

• Explores how innovation and entrepreneurship operate in a wide variety of contexts

• Has a strong emphasis on creativity, design-thinking and tackling big societal challenges

• Equips you with a range of skills valuable to a broad range of organisations and for your own innovative and entrepreneurial venture

Skills for career development

This degree course will help you develop a broad set of skills that are of high value to employers, including the ability to:

• understand key business functions such as marketing, human resources, information management, accounting and finance, and operations in their wider organisational and social context

• put together reasoned arguments and question assumptions

• draw together, analyse and critically evaluate information

• understand the nature of leadership skills and behaviours within organisations

• communicate effectively, clearly and accurately with others

• use ICT to research, identify and present information

• manage time and take responsibility for your own personal development.

Career relevance

The skills and knowledge you’ll develop by studying this degree will equip you to follow a number of career paths, and are recognised by employers as having great value for work in management and business. A qualification in business management can lead to opportunities in a wide range of areas such as:

• middle and senior management positions across all sectors

• advertising and marketing

• accountancy

• human resources

• banking, including investment banking

• sales and retail

• management consultancy

• business journalism

• transport and logistics.

Accreditation

The Open University Business School is one of the few institutions worldwide that are triple-accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and Association of MBAs (AMBA).