Master's in Impact Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Week 1 (@ Nova SBE)

• Nova SBE Discovery Week

First Semester (32 ECTS)

• Mandatory Courses
• Elective
• Skills Accelerator Modules
• Seminars
• Career Development Program – Mastering Your Career
• Mentoring Program
• Entrepreneurial Journey

Second Semester (28 ECTS)

• Mandatory Courses
• Electives
• Seminars
• Skills Accelerator Modules
• Entrepreneurial Project (Entrepreneurship or Innovation focused)             

Third Semester (30 ECTS)

• Work Project

*Please note that this information may be subject to changes in the 2023/2024 academic year.

1st semester:

• Entrepreneurial Journey
• Entrepreneurship with Impact
• Opportunity Identification
• New Venture Management
• Innovation for Impact
• Applied Research Method

2nd semester:

• Entrepreneurial Project (Entrepreneurship focus / innovation focus)
• Metrics that Matter
• Data Science for Impact

Health Innovation specialization mandatory courses:

• Value-Based Healthcare
• Medicine 4.0 (lectured by Nova Medical School)

*Please note that this information may be subject to changes in the 2023/2024 academic year.

Critical Approaches / Ethics

• Performance and Progress
• Responsibility and Ethics of Business

Data

• Applied Business Analytics
• Introduction to Machine Learning  
• Introduction to Programming

Economics

• Doing Business in Emerging Markets
• Economics of Education
• Economics of Health and Health Care
• Economics of Health Systems
• Global Energy Markets
• Labor Economics
• Private Sector Development
• Value-Based Health Care

Entrepreneurship

• Applied Entrepreneurship
• Business Model Innovation
• Science-Based Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Finance

• Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital
• Impact Investments
• Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructuring

Innovation / Process

• Design Thinking for Social Innovation
• Open Innovation
• Organizing for Good in the digital age
• Product Design and Development

Marketing

• Better Marketing for Consumer Wellbeing
• Brands and Marketing in Asia´s  Emerging Markets
• Digital Marketing
• Social Marketing
• Social Media Marketing

Organizational Studies

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Leadership and Change Management
• Leading Social Enterprises with Impact in International Development
• Leading Transformation
• Negotiation
• System Change
• Team Dynamics in Organizations
• Work & Family

Strategy

• Corporate Strategy and Transformation
• Entrepreneurial Strategy
• Mental Models for Strategy
• Social Media Marketing
• Strategy Implementation
• Technology Strategy

Sustainability

• CIRCULAR ECONOMY:  Eliminate, Circulate and Regenerate
• Energy and Climate Change
• Environmental Policy
• Fundamentals on Environment and Sustainability
• Regenerative Business
• Strategy Implementation
• Sustainability Evaluation of Policies, Plans and Projects
• Sustainable Finance
• Sustainable Marketing
• Sustainable Operations
• Sustainable Tourism

Health Innovation Specialization Electives **

• Nutrition through the lifecycle (lectured by Nova Medical School
• Aging (lectured by Nova Medical School)
• Chronic diseases (starting in 2024/2025 cohort, lectured by Nova Medical School)
•  Mental Health (starting in 2024/2025 cohort, lectured by Nova Medical School)

*Please note that this information may be subject to changes in the 2023/2024 academic year.

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

The Skills Accelerator is composed by 4 areas and students must complete 1 module in each area, according to their Master’s program.

• Digital
  Technology for business: concepts, tools and software.
• Ethics
  The concept of ethics and its importance in life (personal and professional). Exposure to ethical challenges and practical discussions on how to address them.
• Market Links
  Activities career and job market related. Organized by Careers office, student clubs, or faculty. Depending on the module selected, corporate partners and other companies are invited to participate. Competencies you might acquire and/or accelerate: self-awareness, collaboration, teamwork effectiveness, critical thinking and problem-solving, job market knowledge, Alumni networking.
• Leadership
  Leadership concepts and tips: self-leadership and leading others.

* Please note that for the academic year of 2023/2024 this information may be subject to changes.

Students must complete a Master’s Work Project, which is equivalent to a Master's Thesis, supervised by a professor. This project will be based on the students’ ideas to tackle grand challenges, either it’s their own social venture or an innovative solution to implement within an existing organization.

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.

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:

40,5 ECTS
in Mandatory Courses including the Mastering Your Career Activities

17,5 ECTS
in Elective Courses (minimum)

2 ECTS
in Skills Accelerator

3,5 ECTS
in Entrepreneurial Journey 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 courses (22,5 ECTS).