Strategic Innovation Management

• Grow professionally and personally as you interact with our active community of students and teachers from many countries and backgrounds – a unique feature of this programme. Experience a global perspective that is essential for today's business world.

• Work closely in small groups with other students on projects concerning problems from practices, gaining team skills that matter in today's market. The Master internship option is very popular amongst our students, this is your opportunity to gain hands-on experience along your studies.

• Learn from a highly qualified, published, award-winning, international group of lecturers.
• Get ready for a fantastic career when you obtain your MSc BA SIM degree. Because of our combination of workshops, seminars, events with employers like Capgemini and Engie you will be prepared to kickstart your career.
• Prepare yourself to critically assess corporate sustainability initiatives, analyze the need for sustainability strategies, manage change for sustainability, and support sustainability-focused innovation by taking the Future Prosperity and Sustainability Focus Area.
• Choose the course electives from the Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence Focus Area to learn about artificial intelligence, and how to develop digital solutions or to design data-driven business processes.
• The programme has been internationally accredited by the AACSB and EQUIS, ensuring a high-quality education, which only 1% of universities reach worldwide.

A study exchange semester is not included in the one-year programme. However, in the past, MSc BA SIM students have 1. taken (a part of their 15EC) electives abroad; 2. (collected data for or have) written their theses abroad; 3. completed internships abroad. In these cases, however, the exchange was organized by the student and facilitated by the programme coordinator. You can contact the SIM coordinator should you have any questions about these options.

Strategic innovation management is becoming more and more important across industries internationally. This means that as a graduate, you can choose between many different career paths. This programme is the ideal choice if you are interested in a career in strategic or innovation management, business development, or consultancy.

You may start your career with a national or international company, a non-profit organization, or a government institution. Our graduates work as:

• business developers and innovation managers, working with innovation within the firm;
• strategic consultants, advising the firm on its innovation processes;
• as bankers, evaluating firms and their innovations;
• and as policy advisors, working on stimulating innovation at the regional, national, and international levels.

Some examples of companies where our alumni work after graduation are: Capgemini, KPMG, Engie, IBM, Porsche, ING Group, ABN Amro, ASML, and Philips.

Our research-driven education is strongly rooted in business practice and society. At the heart of our teaching approach is (interdisciplinary) research and in collaboration with external partners, students, and professors conduct projects on societally relevant topics such as digitalisation and how AI is shaping business and societies, leadership and governance, future prosperity and sustainability, climate change and how to tackle the shift to renewable energy. From day one of your degree, we are about making a real impact.

You can find more information on the research institute related to the MSc programme: Innovation and Organization