Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation

A truly unique program for those who can’t wait to create new value through entrepreneurship and business innovation. Learn how to drive an organization forward with business innovation or how to change the world with a new start-up that will scale to a large company. We aim to educate entrepreneurial, open-minded academically trained thinkers who are eager to gain new knowledge. Graduates with self-confidence, ready to take action and create new economic, social and environmental value.

Study Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation and become an academically trained entrepreneur or innovator: ready to start your own business or become a change maker within an existing organization.

Successful engaging in entrepreneurship and business innovation revolves about mindset (character), knowledge and skills. The program is designed to nurture that mindset, to acquire that knowledge, and develop these skills. Enrolling requires you being curious, critical and ready to be pushed out of your comfort zone. For example when actively reaching out to entrepreneurs and investors for one of the many course assignments you will have throughout the program.

Why study Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation in Tilburg?

• It is the only program with a genuine focus on entrepreneurship and business innovation offered by a Research University in the Netherlands, and one of a few in Europe. You will acquire a strong academic foundation: in entrepreneurship, business innovation, as well as in other fields of expertise, such as accounting, finance, marketing law, and ethics.
• The program matches courses that transfer rigorous academic insight and understanding with action-oriented Entrepreneurship in Action (EiA) courses in which you will learn to engage in business innovation and entrepreneurship from doing it. EiA courses give you academically sound insights and competencies by having you apply these in course assignments.
• As an academic degree program, you will learn through reflection: how to best apply scientific insights and skills to play your role in doing good. Tilburg Alumni contribute to society and are (pro) active and ethical global citizens.
• You will build a relevant network with scale-up entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate business innovators that you can benefit from in your future career.