Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship is focused on developing knowledge, skills and understanding of how an innovative idea, product or process can be used to form a new and successful business, or to help an existing firm to grow and expand.

What you will learn

You will develop essential understanding and knowledge of how to test whether an innovative idea, product or processes will be demanded by customers, how to finance start-up ventures and innovation projects, and how to sell and market new products and services into national and international market places.

Areas of study

You will focus on how innovative new products and services are developed and how entrepreneurs think and make decisions. You will also learn how entrepreneurial firms compete for customers in national and international markets, how they form strategies, and how they organise their activities and operations to grow into successful and profitable businesses.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a strong complementary major for students completing a Bachelor of Commerce. A number of the courses are also available to students in other degree programmes and are especially relevant to those studying sciences and technology related disciplines.

Career opportunities

A wide and varied range of roles and careers is open to you when you study Innovation and Entrepreneurship at either the undergraduate or postgraduate level including working in a start-up or innovative business, business development, management consulting, or as an entrepreneurial manager.

• The Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunities
• Technology and Innovation for Business Growth
• Entrepreneurship
• Special Topic

• General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level. A minimum of three A-Level subjects completed, with at least 'C' grade or higher attained. General Studies or similar general papers cannot be included.
• Complete the International Baccalaureate Diploma (minimum total score of 24).
• IELTS (Academic): Overall score of 6.0 and all bands 5.5 or better
• Internet-based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 80 plus a written score of 21
• Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 550 plus Essay (TWE) of 4.5
• Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) and Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 169 and all bands 162 or better
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 50 and no PTE communicative skills score below 42. You must authorise the University to view and verify your PTE scores. 
• Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 80

• University of Auckland International Student Scholarships