Master's in Strategic Innovation Management

The University of Groningen is a public research university located in the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. The university has 11 faculties, including one in the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden, and has more than 37,000 students from over 120 nationalities. It also boasts over 140,000 alumni and a budget of 1,000 million EUR.

Study strategic innovation management in Groningen and learn how to bring innovations to the market and turn them into profitable new products. How do you build an organisation geared to innovation? And how, in a globalized world, do you protect your innovation, to make sure that you profit from it? In the MSc Business Administration - Strategic Innovation Management (MSc BA SIM) you will study the whole strategic process of managing innovations within companies and between companies. The programme is structured around the following four topics: (1) where does innovation come from; (2) how can a firm organise its activities for innovation; (3) how and with whom should a firm cooperate to maximise innovation; and (4) how can firms capture value from innovation? In doing so, the aim of this programme is to teach students how to manage a firm's innovation activities and to help turn ideas into profitable new processes, products, services and business models. The MSc BA SIM is a strongly research-oriented programme since all our courses are designed and taught by a small group of top academic researchers. By introducing students to state-of-the-art academic research, the programme aims to give students the tools to properly understand, evaluate and solve real-life cases, and conduct their own research.