About the Programme
Target audience of the program
The target audience of the program includes managers and employees of commercial, public, and government organizations who link their professional and personal self-realization with the processes of innovative development of their enterprises, companies, networks, and communities. The program is of interest to:
- Managers and employees of developing companies motivated to acquire additional dynamic competencies in the field of product, process, organizational, marketing, and social innovations;
- Novice and established entrepreneurs, members of entrepreneurial teams;
- Employees of infrastructure facilities supporting innovative entrepreneurship;
- Managers and employees of laboratories, R&D departments, and innovative development of high-, medium-, and low-tech companies;
- Managers of innovative projects and transformational initiatives seeking to bring what has been started to a concrete result;
- Managers and employees of universities, government institutions, enterprises and corporations, public organizations and communities interested in their sustainable development through the construction of a successful system of managing innovative processes, projects, and programs.
Key advantages and features of the programme:
- Interdisciplinary approach: harmonizing the content from managerial, technical and economic disciplines.
- Practice-based orientation: mastering software products and practical tools, development of personal skills of teamwork and communications; master-classes with the best professional practitioners.
- Project-based environment: engagement in intra- and interdisciplinary team projects, involvement in the research (or consulting) and start-up live group projects.
- Immersion in the professional environment: many contacts with the leading Russian and foreign innovative companies, R&D and engineering centers, visits to companies, business-incubators and accelerators, meetings with the best practitioners and researchers.
- Self-development and mutual enrichment: the best students which motivate and learn from each other, invest their resources and contacts in the program development.
- Adaptive educational path: the ability to choose (and mix) disciplines from the entrepreneurial and interpreneurial pools.
- Case Factory: case studies developed in the unique HSE Case Factory project accumulating the best experience in managing innovation activities in Russian and foreign companies; development and application (by the students as well) of the case methodology as a tool for organizational diagnostic and innovative development.
Academic disciplines
1. Key Seminars
Key seminars are designed to provide students with a basic understanding of current management practices, trends, and challenges in the field of innovation through exposure to the real-world activities of innovative companies, innovation infrastructure organizations, and innovative entrepreneurial structures. Key seminars are also essential for developing the skills for the competent organization of scientific and practical research in the field of innovation studies, as well as the skills for the proper formatting and presentation of research results.
2. Internship
3. Major
Includes the following Program disciplines, which are mandatory for students and delivered predominantly in a synchronous format:
4. Magolego
The MagoLego (MagoLego) additional module consists of disciplines for Master's students that they select and take during their first and second years of study. Students are required to "spend" a certain number of credits on them, and they can study any disciplines from different profiles, other educational programs, and other faculties. Our educational program allocates 15 credits for the Magolego module. Given that the average weight of a Magolego discipline is 3 credits, a student must select and complete at least 5 disciplines over the two years of their Master's studies.
The School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship also offers its own Magolego disciplines, including:
