Executive Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

OVERVIEW

PROGRAM FEATURES

  • Learning Formula- On-Campus and 100% Online
  • Intake Cohort- April and October each year.
  • Accredited Master’s Certification – 60 ECTS
  • Language – English
  • 2 Weekends per month ( Fortnightly)
  • Duration- 1 year

The master’s in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management is designed to provide participants with a learning experience similar to an accelerator or incubator program. It has been designed to take professionals to become entrepreneurs or future business leaders in charge of innovation, through the steps involved in developing an idea into a commercial or social enterprise.

This course is designed to give participants the tools and resources to become decision-makers for launching innovative projects by providing brainstorming sessions, innovative thinking exercises, business games simulation, design thinking in-class activities, networking opportunities and business meetings to practice skills and develop entrepreneurial mindsets. 

Participants will equip themselves first with general core knowledge in management, they will get specialized expertise in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, specifically mastering the process of business creation, innovation, prototyping and scaling up, promotion, selling and PR, risk management, corporate innovation, innovation project team, social entrepreneurship and how to learn and rise again from an entrepreneurial failure so that they can stand out as innovative and responsible leaders, with a growth mindset, fully ready to make an impact out in the world and achieve career milestones.

WHY TAKE THE EXECUTIVE MASTER IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT FROM ROME BUSINESS SCHOOL

The Executive Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management paves the way to new future opportunities and equips you with tools to build a strong professional profile.

Discover your untapped potential and your ability to take on responsibility and drive forward meaningful change. It is time to become a better manager, which you can achieve in the following way:

  1. Graduation Ceremony, Rome Business School, Italy, with the option to attend the Graduation Ceremony and a one-week study tour and immersion in Italy-
    Every student has the opportunity to attend the graduation ceremony at Rome Business School Italy, the graduation ceremony is a 5 days event that also incorporates a study tour, company visits, sightseeing of monuments, and notable places.
  2. International Boot camp in Rome, and Kigali – Looking for international exposure to gain a brand-new perspective on the business world? We offer the chance to enrich your knowledge of entrepreneurship, innovation and other key topics in the business world by taking part in our International Programs in Rome and Kigali where you can also expand your professional network.
  3. Life & Soft Skills Program: Self-Discovery, Self-Awareness, Empowerment, Reinvention.

Soft skills are personal attributes that influence our relationships and communication. They are fundamental for conducting effective leadership and steering businesses towards success. In this increasingly technological world, soft skills are the fuel that drives the growth of our relationships. Soft skills are essential abilities and life skills that we should master every day to become a better version of ourselves.

  1. Networking & Partners, Multinational Relationships.

In partnership with several globally renowned leading companies, such as Airtel, Fidson Pharmaceutical, Messrand, Nigeria Info, Cars45, Microsoft, Rainoil and many more, we allow you to make contact with real working environments and build a strong professional network, through workshops, webinars, guest speakers and many more activities, encouraging interaction between leading professionals and students, and facilitating the learning process through real case studies.

  1. Career Acceleration  Program, Design your professional profile

A tailored Career Acceleration Program specifically designed to shape each student’s professional profile to enable them to become competitive figures in the modern employment market. You will have access to workshops focusing on the latest key topics about job seeking and career networking, individual career guidance meetings, and our exclusive events to ensure the best start or a great boost in your career.

  1. Coaching Program

How much of your potential are you using from 1 to 10? Learn to get the most out of your potential through 3 Master coaching sessions with some of our experts. You will improve your competencies in terms of achieving your goals, effectively contributing to teamwork activities, communicating, time management and many more key skills for being successful in your future career.

  1. RBSN for Entrepreneurship

Are you planning to start up your own business or dreaming of becoming the fresh, innovative driving force within an organization? We will equip you with skills, insights and the curious mindset required to spot new opportunities, make connections and bring new business ventures to life.

  1. Virtual Coffee with CEOs

Network with Top CEOs & learn what it takes, to excel in your career.

Develop networking skills directly in two interactive conversations with Top CEOs, during which you can ask questions, inquire about career interests and roadblocks, ask about the keys to career success, and network with a variety of friendly, experienced professionals! The two coffee conversations will be held virtually online, meaning you can join them and participate from anywhere live in real-time.

  1. RBSN Business Showmanship

Gain visibility for your business as we project your business on our social media platforms and free consultancy on key business challenges.

The Business Showmanship is designed to give your business visibility as your business will be promoted across all our social media channels. This is usually after you have made a presentation in one of the In-Class lectures where our highly experienced faculty will offer you free consulting on your key business challenges. Your presentation will also spotlight your business as the primary case study for the class. And where a student doesn’t have an existing business, an alternative business can be used.

QUICK CURRENT STATISTICS OF OUR EXECUTIVE’S STUDENTS AND ALUMNI ON INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

  • 82% Increased Professional Responsibilities
  • 93% Improved Decision-Making Capability
  • 79% of students increase their salary after the completion of their master’s programs
  • 68% of Alumni got a new offer and promotions
  • 52% of students are employed in a multinational company
  • 58% are now successful Managers and Directors in their respective organizations

PROGRAM STRUCTURE

WHY TAKE THE MASTER IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

  1. Develop Managerial Competencies & Entrepreneurial Leadership,
  • To Start And Run Business
  • Promote essential knowledge in all the departments of a company: marketing, finance, accounting, human capital and operations as well as cross-disciplinary knowledge in entrepreneurship and innovation.
  • Enhance entrepreneurial spirit to create new businesses, while also fostering innovation and creativity.
  • Be able to identify the sources of fear of entrepreneurial failure and deal with them
  1. Innovation Leadership
  • Initiate and manage corporate innovation and innovation processes;
  • Develop innovation leadership and bring innovation in solving complex problems in the business world;
  • Developing the tools and capacities required for innovation leadership and successful management of the innovation project team;
  • Understand and implement the Open Innovation model.
  1. Become An Innovative And Responsible Leader
  • Be able to start innovative new business models by combining environmental and social sustainability with economic sustainability;
  • Understand the scope of social entrepreneurship.
  • Implement sustainable innovation, and understand its values and benefits.

PROGRAMME EXPECTATION

The Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation will strengthen your competencies and enable you to take on responsibilities in entrepreneurship, creativity and pilot innovation ideas and endeavour of any organization.

It will enhance your knowledge and exposure to different business ideation models, hidden skills, new business trends, and global insights into viable innovations with a high level of business operations, hence improving your efficiency and productivity to start, sustain and upscale a business venture.

PROFESSIONAL OUTLET

In particular, the master’s is particularly suitable for those who want to pursue a career in the following roles:

  • Entrepreneurs starting a new business
  • Master students who want to become startup owner
  • Professionals with family businesses
  • Middle Managers in any industry passionate about innovation
  • Professionals who pursue a career in the corporate or public sector, in innovation or small business management.

PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY STATISTICS

  • 5 Years and above of professional experience.
  • 82% employed full time
  • 12% business owner/ Self-employed / Entrepreneurs
  • 19% of the students are from the FMCG sector
  • 6% from consulting
  • 19% from Health, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology
  • 6% from information technology/ telecommunication
  • 12% from Finance / Accounting
  • 6% from Manufacturing / Engineering / Construction
  • 13% from Marketing / Publishing / Media
  • 13% from NGO / Social Services
  • 6% from Transport / Logistics

INDUSTRY BASE FACULTY

You will be guided by experts in every step of your Entrepreneurship and business Innovation path.

Our Facilitators are carefully selected international academics and disruptive executives who apply their skills and knowledge every day to achieve their goals. You will benefit from the experience of professionals currently working in the field for leading national and international companies, bringing their emerging insights from real business cases.

Our teaching method is designed to ensure the acquisition of theoretical and practical know-how to transfer truly useful competencies that foster professional development. Our faculty members are opinion leaders on many of today’s most crucial business topics.

See some facts about our faculty:

  • 75 facilitators of diverse professional backgrounds
  • 10% of them are academic professors
  • 90% of them currently work professionally in the field as industry experts, consultants, entrepreneurs, managers, and practitioners.
  • 70% of them have international experience
  • 30% of them have national experience

Checkout our topnotch renowned faculties here:

Mr. Mahendra WAMAN has recently been appointed as a visiting faculty at the Rome Business School.

After completing his Engineering in Industrial Electronics in 1995, he pursued Advance Diploma in Computer Hardware and Network Engineering. He believes in the practical approach to Business Administration. After gaining about 13 years of work experience in various business functions, he decided to attain an appropriate qualification in Business Administration in order to support his knowledge and experience. In 2012, he completed his MBA with a specialization in E-Business from WeSchool in Mumbai.

Onyeka Akumah is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform with a network of over 420,000 farmers in January 2021 connecting them with finance, and market access, and technical expertise across all states in Nigeria.

Onyeka was recently named one of Africa’s Person of the year winning the Agricultural Champion of the Year 2020 across the continent for the work and impact Farmcrowdy has had on hundreds of thousands of farmers.

Dr. Austin Nweze started out as an entrepreneur in 1990 after a brief stint with New Breed and the President magazines. For almost a decade he published Successful People magazine, the first Nigerian magazine focused on the promotion of entrepreneurship, which contributed to the recent interest and attention being given to the subject and sector by the government, universities, NGOs, and the private sector. For over 15 years he consulted for organizations on organizational transformation/revitalization and developed and delivered training programs for corporate organizations and government establishments in the areas of entrepreneurship development, venture management, leadership, six sigma, media relations, finance, financial planning, retirement planning, marketing, strategy, and soft skills.

Mr. Sonny Allison

Mr. Sonny Allison is a war veteran, a visionary, a serial entrepreneur, dreamer, a disruptor and a chronic optimist. He is a business consultant and

sits in the board of a host of companies as Chairman. He is a Fellow, Couriers and Logistics Management Institute. Member, Governing Council of CLMI, Member, Board of Director – Associate of Outsourcing Professionals of Nigeria (AOPN) and Fellow, Africa Centre for Supply Chain. He has over 30 years work experience in Logistics and Supply chain Management at various companies DHL. He was the founding MD of Red Star Express Limited.

METHODOLOGY:” CIRCULAR LEARNING” BASED ON THE EFMD CIRCLE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE

By adhering to the highest standards regarding the teaching methodology provided by EFMD, the Master will be taught through interactive lectures, case study analyses, exercises, discussions, role-plays, teamwork exercises, video conferences, business analysis and sessions presentation of students. Case studies will be used to generate discussions and illustrate business problems. Students will be encouraged to read and engage in discussions and debates. The teaching methodology is based on learning by doing, through which teachers implement a student-centred approach, involve students and provide activities that allow students to apply the knowledge acquired.

CAREER SERVICE

In line with our mission to evolve better managers for a better world, our goal is to provide you with the support, resources, and tools necessary for a successful career and professional future, other to accomplish these we don’t just provide you with a top-class training, but also granting you the support and assistance from Rome Business School Career Services. From the very beginning of an academic programme through all the processes until graduation, we help you choose the right professional area to direct your interest and efforts, and prepare you to effectively face the day’s job market. Along with connections that can open doors at various companies.

Read more about our career services functions and benefits to our students: https://romebusinessschool.ng/test/career-services/

Each year, Rome Business School presents the Employment Report, a document that collects data on the official results achieved by our students and alumni in terms of employment and professional growth following their master’s degree at Rome Business School Nigeria. The results obtained were possible thanks to the commitment of our students and the incredible professionalism of our Career Services who, with diligence and dedication, we’re able to direct students towards the desired career path in the world of work.

In particular, according to the most recent statistics:

  • 68% Got New Job Offer
  • 82% Increased Professional Responsibilities
  • 90% Improved Decision-Making Capability
  • 5% Got Jobs before Commencement of the Master’s Program
  • 7% Got Jobs within their Master’s Program
  • 7% Got Jobs within 1 Year Post Completion of Master Program

Download the 2022 employment report here for more information.

SOFT SKILL PROGRAM

Soft skills are the “secret key” to a well-managed workplace and a progressive career path. With the Soft Skills Program, we offer you the opportunity to develop the soft skills necessary for your personal and professional growth.

The personal growth program is optional and is structured as follows: 10 hours in total for 5 interactive and self-reflective courses on soft skills (the certificate will be provided upon completion of the program):

  • Emotional intelligence
  • Public Speaking for Business
  • Time, stress and self-management
  • Intercultural communication
  • Conflict, problem solving and negotiations

DOUBLE CERTIFICATION

At the end of the course, attendees will be issued with the official double certification of the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Rome Business School Italy and Valencia International University, Spain.

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CERTIFICATE RECOGNITION

At the end of the course, attendees will be issued with the official double certification of the Master of the respective program from Rome Business School Italy and Valencia International University, Spain. The certification also comes with an academic transcript with detailed modules and their ECTS grades, and the number of study hours for each of the modules taken.

WES recognizes our accreditation partner University, Valencia International University (VIU). Students seeking to evaluate their academic transcripts with the WES can write at Rome Business school Nigeria to be guided on the process. Valencia International University (VIU) certification has been recognized under the educational credential assessment for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada as a Canadian equivalency master’s degree.

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ADMISSION EVALUATION PROCESS

A Thorough Selection Process: Qualification and Steps:
Rome Business School works hard to maintain the highest standard of quality in the programs we offer. That’s why, in order to ensure the eligibility of the candidates, all applicants must undergo and successfully pass a selection process structured as follows:

Candidates admitted to Rome Business School will be issued instructions on enrollment procedures. To enroll, accepted candidates have two options for paying their tuition fees:

• Full tuition payment, for which the candidate receives an additional 10% discount on their tuition, after the application of any partial scholarship;
• Minimum first installment, followed by monthly installments depending on the program and study format;
• Professional and educational requirements: 2 years of working experience, a bachelor’s degree, and a fluent knowledge of English.

ADMISSION PROCESS

At Rome Business School we work hard to maintain the highest standard of quality in the programs we offer. That’s why, to ensure the eligibility of the candidates, all applicants must undergo and successfully pass a selection process structured as follows:

SCHOLARSHIP, EDUCATIONAL LOAN AND TUITION

Tuition Payment

  • 100% online participation: NGN1, 700,000.00
  • On-campus participation: NGN2,000,000.00

Flexible Payment structure:

  • Start your program with NGN 400,000 and spread the balance within 8 months of interest-free installments.
  • Single lump-sum payments attract and guarantee an additional 10% of the total tuition amount
  • Scholarship Availability: YES, see the top of the page for the prevailing scholarship.

Please Note: Competition for scholarships increases as the starting date approaches and funds are limited, so it is advisable to apply immediately to access the scholarship.

GET READY TO START

You now know that, if you are looking for top-quality advanced training in a particular business area, countless opportunities for skills development and testing yourself, ways to expand your professional network and make contact with elite professionals working in several business fields, we have exactly the program for you. From that point, it is all up to you! Your determination and willingness to learn and experience new ways of thinking are all you need to make the most of one of our programs and start making your way along the path toward success in your career.

Your future awaits.

Build it with us.