Executive MBA in Innovation & Business Creation

This part-time Executive MBA (Master of Arts) programme is taught in English in Munich and was developed in collaboration with UnternehmerTUM. It targets corporate innovators, aspiring entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, business founders and other visionaries who want practical, evidence-based management training with a strong emphasis on innovation. The curriculum is designed to strengthen your ability to spot and evaluate opportunities, advance or reinvent products and services, and to found, lead and scale new ventures.

The course blends theory and hands-on practice so you can apply what you learn while continuing to work. Teaching focuses specifically on innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, combining classroom modules with project work and an international experience to broaden perspectives. The pathway concludes with a Master’s thesis that integrates your learning into a substantive research or practice-oriented output.

Program components / requirements to complete the degree:

• Part-time delivery; instruction language: English
• Six core learning modules:
  • Strategy & Organisation
  • Finance & Accounting
  • Marketing, Sales & Operations
  • Leadership & Cooperation
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation Management
• Two project modules:
  • Team Project
  • Impact Project
• International Experience: Entrepreneurship in Context & Switching Perspectives
• Master’s Thesis

This structure supports professionals who want to combine ongoing employment with advanced study and practical entrepreneurial training in one of Germany’s leading technical universities.

This part-time Executive MBA is built for corporate innovators, aspiring entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, business founders, and other visionaries who want to develop and launch new ventures while continuing to work. The programme runs on two timelines to fit different career and time commitments: the Regular Track begins in October and lasts four semesters, while the Fast Track starts in April and runs for three semesters.

Teaching takes place in small, interdisciplinary cohorts that emphasize close interaction between participants and faculty. Instruction is delivered by professors from the Technical University of Munich and other international universities, together with high-profile practitioners from industry and consultancy. The mix of academic insight and real-world experience is structured around both learning modules and intensive project modules to maximize applied learning.

A central feature is the project work: each participant advances their own innovation or business-creation project as an integral part of the curriculum. Project modules move learning out of the safe classroom into challenging, real-world problem solving that trains mental agility, surfaces cognitive biases, and encourages reflective practice — often changing how participants view problems, teams and themselves.

Key modules

• Learning modules: structured academic input that frames concepts relevant to innovation and business creation (delivered alongside practitioner perspectives)
• Project modules: hands-on work developing your own innovation or venture as the core learning activity
• Interdisciplinary team work: collaborative projects that combine diverse professional perspectives

Learning outcomes

• Ability to design, develop and advance a real-world innovation or business-creation project
• Improved problem-solving speed and mental agility through project-based challenges
• Greater self-awareness and reflective practice, including identifying and overcoming personal or team biases
• Skills in working across disciplines and leveraging academic and practitioner expertise to move projects forward

Requirements / participant commitments

• Part-time enrollment; choose Regular Track (October start, four semesters) or Fast Track (April start, three semesters)
• Targeted at corporate innovators, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, business founders and similar practitioners
• Active participation in both learning modules and project modules, including sustained work on an individual innovation/business project
• Engagement in interdisciplinary team settings and close interaction with faculty and industry mentors

Graduates are prepared to take on leadership roles in innovation management, product and service development, corporate venturing and strategic functions within established firms. The programme also equips participants with the practical skills and network to found and scale their own start‑ups or to lead new ventures within organisations (intrapreneurship).

By combining evidence‑based management content with hands‑on projects and international exposure, alumni typically move into roles such as innovation manager, product lead, founder/CEO, corporate strategy or business development manager, and consultant focused on growth and transformation.