Northeastern University has launched a one-year, part-time graduate program aimed at teaching working professionals how to infuse innovation into their organizations.
The Master of Science in innovation is designed specifically for working professionals. The program will be offered through the D’Amore-McKim School of Business starting this fall. The program will aim to give students the chance to learn the fundamentals of innovation in business, expand their skill set, work on experiential innovation projects and help them to achieve corporate advancement.
“In a globally competitive economic environment, the only source of sustained competitive advantage has to come through innovation,” said Hugh Courtney, dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “This isn’t about being creative, but how you generate ideas and build an organization to really drive innovation into the market.”
Northeastern University is a global leader innovation and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on solving global challenges in health, security, and sustainability.
The program’s project based curriculum ensures that graduate students will be able to take advantage of Northeastern’s experiential learning model, which is anchored in the school’s co-op model.
“The co-op model is fantastic,” said Marc Meyer, co-director of Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education. “It has been around for a long time, but only now many more people are seeing its value. And now with this new master’s program and what we are doing across graduate programs in the business school, we’re finding out what co-op means for traditional graduate education.”
The program is seeking students from a variety of professional backgrounds, who have been working in the same industry for several years and want to reinvent their company’s culture of innovation. “We want students who will come to this program with a purpose,” Meyer said.