Master program Innovation Management
The program conveys scientific theories, tools and techniques to manage innovations both within and across companies. You will learn how to apply the knowledge that you gain in carrying out research into innovation management and in industrial applications. You will also learn ways to analyze the current innovative performance of a company, how to explain it in terms of quality, cost and time, and how to improve this performance by re-engineering innovation processes. You will experience what it means to carry out research yourself, to gain new insights and to apply the acquired knowledge in the many projects.

Graduation options
The concluding Master’s thesis project plays a central role in the program. At the end of the first semester you will select a subject for your Master’s thesis project. You will then study this specialization in depth, under the supervision of your mentor. You will also choose a significant number of electives within this specialization. The Master’s thesis project is an empirical research project, which means that you need to decide on the research topic to be addressed, and that you then also carry out the study yourself. This may be in close co-operation with a business sponsor, and is always related to the activities of researchers.

Internship opportunities
The program ends with a Master’s project/thesis. This concluding Master’s thesis project is a research internship that plays a central role in the overall Master’s program. During the second and third semesters you will work on the preparations for your research project, and in the final semester you will focus totally on the research internship. You can follow all or part of this internship at, or by working together with, one or more companies that are involved in the research project. In the third semester you will also have the opportunity to spend one semester abroad at another university. Outside the academic year the program also offers summer internships, which you can follow between the second and third semesters.

Master students from outside the Netherlands please note:
You are admitted with an individual program. This means that you have to pass some extra undergraduate (minor/pre-master) courses up to a maximum of 20 credit points. You are allowed to include these courses in the free electives' space of your master program.

Graduated... and then?
As a graduate of this Master’s degree program you will be well prepared for a broad range of positions and careers. For example you could work as a product development manager in a production or service company, as a purchasing and inventory manager, as a strategy and marketing consultant, or a  new venture or alliance manager. Starting your own company or following a career in research are also among the options.

• Study possibilities: Full-time
• Degree: Master of Science
• Language: English
• Times of entry: September and February
• Duration: 2 years (120 ECTS)
• Structure of the program: first year (60 ECTS)
• Compulsory courses: 40 ECTS (65%)
  - theory lessons and self-study
  - group design project
  - preparation for thesis
• Electives: 20 ECTS (35%)
  - theory, lessons and self-study
  - group design project
• Structure of the program: second year (60 ECTS)
  - Electives: 20 ECTS
  - Preparation for thesis: 10 ECTS
  - Master’s thesis project: 30 ECTS