Master's in Impact Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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1^st semester (32 ECTS): 

• Mandatory Courses
• Elective Courses
• Modules
• Seminars
• Mastering Your Career (Career Development Program)
• Mentoring Program
• Entrepreneurial Journey

2^nd semester (28 ECTS): 

• Mandatory Courses
• Elective Courses
• Modules
• Seminars
• Entrepreneurial Project (Entrepreneurship or Innovation focused)

• Work Project

• Entrepreneurshio with Impact
• Becoming a Change Maker
• Opportunity Identification
• Firms and Markets
• Financial Management for Entrepreneurs
• Innovation for Impact
• Entrepreneurial Project/Innovation Project
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Data Science for Impact

The Healthcare specialization also includes:

• Value-Based Healthcare (SBE)
• Medical Advances Specifics (NMS)

• Advanced Behavioral Economics  
• Advanced Financial Transactions in M&A 
• Advanced Product Design 
• AI Impact on Business  
• Algorithmic Governance
• Applied Corporate Finance  
• Applied Entrepreneurship  
• Applied Quantitative Studies 
• Applied Social Entrepreneurship 
• Applied Sports Projects 
• Asian Brands
• Asset Management  
• Auditing
• Banking 
• B-Corp Clinic 
• Behavioral Economics and Finance 
• Better Marketing for Consumer Wellbeing 
• Big Data Analysis  
• Blockchain Fundamentals  
• Blue Finance 
• Brands and Marketing in Asia’s Emerging Markets 
• Business and Human Rights 
• Business Model Innovation 
• Circular Economy: Eliminate, Circulate and Regenerate  
• Climate Finance 
• Competition Policy  
• Competitive Strategy: An Analytical Approach
• Computational Thinking and Data Science 
• Consumer and Managerial Decision Making 
• Corporate Financial Risk Management  
• Corporate Governance 
• Corporate Social Responsibility 
• Corporate Strategy and Transformation  
• Corporate Valuation 
• Cracking the Sales Code  
• Credit Risk 
• Cross-Cultural Issues for Marketing 
• Curricular Internship – Semestral 
• Curricular Internship - Trimestral 
• Customer Relationship Management  
• Cybersecurity in Organizations  
• Data Visualization 
• Decentralized Finance 
• Derivatives  
• Design Thinking for Social Innovation 
• Development Economics 
• Digital Marketing  
• Digital Strategy and Transformation 
• Diversity & Inclusion 
• E-Commerce and Metaverse 
• Economics of Education  
• Economics of Health and Health Care  
• Economics of Health Systems 
• Economics of Immigration 
• Economics of the European Union 
• Energy and Climate Change  
• Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital  
• Entrepreneurial Strategy  
• Entrepreneurship 
• Environmental Policy 
• European Union: Governance and Crises 
• Evidence-Based Practices for Wellbeing 
• Family Business 
• Finance and the transition to net zero 
• Financial Intermediation 
• Financial Statement Analysis 
• Fintech Ventures  
• Fixed Income 
• Fundamentals on Environment and Sustainability 
• Game Theory 
• Geoeconomics and International Relations 
• Global Energy Markets 
• Global Human Resources Management 
• Hedge Funds 
• History of Economic Analysis 
• Hospitality Operations Management 
• Hospitality Trends 
• Hotel Asset Management 
• Hotel Investment and Development 
• Impact Investments 
• Innovation and Value Creation Wheel 
• Innovation Management  
• Innovations in the Experience Economy 
• Integrated Marketing Communications 
• International Business 
• International Marketing Strategy 
• International Migration 
• Introduction to Machine Learning 
• Introduction to Programming 
• Investment Philosophies 
• Investments 
• Islamic Finance 
• Labor Economics  
• Leadership and Change Management  
• Leading Social Enterprises with Impact in International Development  
• Leading Transformation 
• Luxury and Fashion Marketing 
• Macroeconomic Theory 
• Macroeconomics of Financial Markets 
• Management Consulting 
• Management in the Public Sector 
• Management of Non-Profit Organizations 
• Marketing Analytics 
• Mental Models for Strategy  
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructuring  
• Modeling Business Decisions 
• Negotiation  
• Network Analytics 
• Open Innovation  
• Operations Management 
• Organizing for Good in the digital age  
• Performance and Progress  
• Personal Finance 
• Policy Evaluation 
• Political Economy 
• Power and Social Change  
• Pricing Strategies 
• Private Equity 
• Product Design and Development  
• Public Finance 
• Public Policy 
• Quality Management 
• Real Estate Finance 
• Regenerative Business 
• Research Methods for Finance 
• Revenue Management 
• Risk and Crisis Management 
• Risk Management 
• Sales and Retailing 
• Science-Based Entrepreneurship and Innovation 
• Service Excellence 
• Shopper Marketing Management 
• Social Marketing  
• Social Media Marketing  
• Sovereign Advisory 
• Sports Club Management 
• Sports Marketing 
• Strategic Costing 
• Strategic Errors in Organizations 
• Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning 
• Strategic Planning and Control 
• Strategy Consulting 
• Strategy Implementation  
• Sustainability Evaluation of Policies, Plans and Projects  
• Sustainable Finance  
• Sustainable Marketing 
• Sustainable Operation  
• Sustainable Tourism 
• System Change  
• Talent Development 
• Team Dynamics in Organizations  
• Technology Strategy  
• The Business of Climate Action  
• Tourism & Hospitality Consulting 
• Value-Based Health Care  
• Venture Simulation 
• Work & Family  

Each program has two compulsory modules to be completed by students: 

• Ethics
• Sustainability 

As part of the degree requirement, students must carry out a work project (thesis) in their final semester. There are three formats available: 

Field Labs 

Students work in groups studying a company/sector, integrating distinct knowledge areas. Most work is team based, although students must present individual reports on specific developments around the core research program.  

Directed Research Internship  

Individual dissertation carried out in the organization where the student is doing an internship. The student will have an advisor from Nova SBE and a Company tutor. The project must be approved by the Academic Director. 

Directed Research*  

Individual dissertation where students showcase their knowledge and expertise by investigating a research problem of scientific nature in a relevant area of interest.  

* This format is generally reserved for those intending on pursuing their studies.

Among all the pressing issues our world is facing, health is a major and urgent one that our students can tackle thanks to our Healthcare Innovation Specialization, powered by HealthEConnect, a project funded by the European Commission and in collaboration with Nova Medical School, Copenhagen Business School, Patient Innovation, Startup Europe Regions Network, and the BioInnovation Institute in Denmark. 

The specialization leverages on medical scientific knowledge (lectured at Nova Medical School), value-based healthcare, innovation, and entrepreneurship. 

As a result of this diverse skill set, real-world perspective, and collaboration opportunities with the health industry of Lisbon and Copenhagen, students are equipped to become impactful entrepreneurs and innovators within the healthcare sector and well-being. 

Health Innovation Specialization Electives * 

• Aging (lectured by Nova Medical School)  
• Economics of Health and Health Care (lectured by Nova SBE)  
• Economics of Health Systems (lectured by Nova SBE)  
• Lifecycle Nutrition (lectured by Nova Medical School)  

 
* Please note that for the Health Innovation Specialization, students have only one elective to choose, to be selected from this list. 

Work Project in Health Innovation Specialization 

Students must complete a Master’s Work Project in the field of healthcare and well-being (e.g. Mental Health, Nutrition, Geriatric, Medical, Nursing, Caregiving…) with opportunities in Lisbon or Copenhagen. Students will have the possibility to work with: 

• Startups created by patients and caregivers framed within Patient Innovation activities, 
• Startups incubated in the BioInnovation Institute in Copenhagen, 
• Corporate partners that belong to Nova SBE's Innovation Ecosystem (IECO), 
• Develop their own healthcare project / start-ups in those fields.

Mastering Your Career (MYC) is a mandatory Master's graduation requirement, worth 2 ECTS. It offers a valuable opportunity to expand learning beyond the classroom and empowers students to make the most of their journey at Nova School of Business & Economics. 

Grading is based upon the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), a grading scale developed to better understand and compare the grades according to different national systems.

We did the math for you and the ECTS grading scale breaks down as follows:

38.5 ECTS
in Mandatory Courses

17,5 ECTS
in Elective Courses (minimum)

2 ECTS
in Mastering Your Career Activities

2 ECTS
in Modules

30 ECTS
in the Work Project

90 ECTS (minimum) in total to graduate
You need a minimum of 90 ECTS to complete your Master's, but if you need 120 ECTS to proceed with your studies, you can extend your Master's by one semester with elective courses (30 ECTS).