Professional MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Organisation:: Continuing Education Center - TU Vienna
Ort, Bundesland, Land:: Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Typ:: Part-time
Certificate:: MBA
Duration:: 4 Semester

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Programme

The Vienna University of Technology and the Vienna University of Economics and Business jointly offer a Professional MBA Program of international format. This program creates a special potential of success by combining technological excellence and managerial realization competence on the highest international level.

Participants gain a profound knowledge in general management, innovations management and entrepreneurial leadership. Here innovation is understood as the process through which knowledge and creativity lead to product or service changes. Entrepreneurship is then the process through which knowledge and creativity generate new way of delivering these products and services, either through a new organization or through reformation of an existing enterprise.

The Professional MBA Entrepreneurship & Innovation features:

Leading international experts in economics and entrepreneurial leadership with excellent didactic abilities.
Highly qualified participants with different backgrounds such as economy, natural science and engineering, who generate an always expanding network.
Teaching contents, made up to date through combining scientifically based know-how and practical relevance within a reasonable curriculum-structure.
Improvement of the participants' professional qualifications based on international quality standards and of highest academic level.

Target audience

The Professional MBA Program is aiming mainly at people operating at the gateway between technology and economy and those who want to operate in this area in the future:

Employees of companies or self–employed who have placed or tend to place themselves as innovation leaders
Engineers, Natural Scientists and Economists working in the fields of product marketing and product controlling with leadership experience
Employees who have made the first steps in their career and want to be prepared to take over an interdisciplinary, innovation oriented management position
Potential founders with technological background

Emphases/Curriculum

The Professional MBA Program comprises of general economic science modules and specialist in-depth modules. The basic modules of economic science raise all of the participants to a common level of sound, fundamental economic knowledge and serve as quality assurance for knowledge that has already been acquired.

Individual – Group – Innovation (Outdoor-Module)
Managing People
Managing Organizations
Competitive Analysis and Strategy
Data Analysis and Decision Making
Financial Reporting
Financial Management
Operations Management
Controlling
Marketing Management
Global Markets
Information Systems Management
Managerial Economics
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Leadership
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

After that the professional specialization and immersion in the subject matter take place. The final part of the MBA Program serves for the consolidation and integration of what has been learned, as well as the writing of a practically-orientated Master Thesis.

Sources of Innovation
Strategies of Innovation
Marketing of Innovation
Organization of Innovation
Financing and Controlling of Innovation
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Master Thesis

In addition to the lectures various excursions and a field trip to Boston (MIT, Harvard Business School) are planned.

Admission/Entrance requirements

Total fees approx.:	€ 25,000

Admission requirements are an academic degree along with several years' relevant work experience and adequate knowledge of the English language. In exceptional cases also persons with an equivalent qualification – i.e. activities similar to those of a university graduate or relevant professional experience – may be admitted.

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Language(s) of instruction:	English
Going abroad:	desired
	Facultative field trip to the Boston area (MIT, Harvard Business School etc.)

Facts

Master of Business Administration (MBA) granted by the Vienna University of Technology and the Vienna University of Economics and Business
Accreditation by FIBAA
Part-time, 4 semesters, presented in modules
Language of Instruction: English
Academic Directors: Univ.Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke (WU Vienna) and Univ.Prof. Dr. Sabine Köszegi (TU Vienna)
Tuition Fees: EUR 25,000 (excluding travel expenses and cost of living)

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Organisation

VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Technology for People – Developing Scientific Excellence and Enhancing Comprehensive Competence

The Vienna University of Technology – located in the heart of Europe and Vienna – is the largest Austrian institution in research and education within the areas of technology and natural sciences. Even though the beginnings of TU Vienna reach back as far as 190 years research, teaching, and learning are state-of-the-art. Today the university finds high international and domestic recognition in teaching as well as in research and is a highly esteemed partner of innovation oriented enterprises.

The TU Vienna offers a wide range of possibilities for studying at the university's eight faculties. Profound expertise and the large pool of specialists active at the TU Vienna in teaching, research and as partners in business and commerce, make interaction among disciplines a prerequisite for maintaining the TU Vienna’s position as one of the best on the international scene. The students get a practice-oriented basic knowledge and have the possibility to participate in research programs. Because of this excellent education graduates of the TU Vienna are quickly employed in industry and business right from the university.

Not only in teaching but also in research the TU Vienna is involved in many different fields: from atomic and particle physics over material physicists, surface science, interface and thin-layer research, plasma technology up to the development of modern production technologies, the research of information and communication technologies and business and investment mathematics. The TU Vienna is also providing impetus for the continuing development of equipment using renewable energy resources. Furthermore the research at TU Vienna is an important contribution to the stimulation of the domestic economy.

In addition the Continuing Education Center of the TU Vienna offers a broad variety of excellent postgraduate programs, e.g. MBA, MSc, and certified programs.

WU EXECUTIVE ACADEMY

Executive Education at the Highest International Level

Change is the only constant in today’s business world. The halflife of management knowledge is constantly decreasing. At the same time, know-how, leadership and individual performance remain the critical resources for a successful business organization now and in the future.

The WU Executive Academy’s goal is to advance individual careers through customized continued education programs and to provide ongoing support for our client firms’ development strategies.

The WU Executive Academy combines business know-how and the resources of Europe’s largest business university in its specialized continued education programs for managers. The knowledge we provide is of immediate practical relevance and kept up-to-date through our scientific research capabilities.