Technology Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Master of Science Degree

Managing technology and innovation requires the skills to create value for your startups or entrepreneurial organizations. This entrepreneurship master’s offers opportunities to engage with business leaders and entrepreneurs, learn from business coaches and mentors, and capitalize on the developmental opportunities available on campus. You can leverage the robust technology environment at RIT and emerge as a business leader who can lead technological entrepreneurship by solving problems, inventing, creating innovative products and services, and commercializing their ideas.

Successful technology and innovation management students often have backgrounds in business or technology. They are interested in managing innovation, keen to lead and manage technological innovation, manage product development, eager to implement innovative ideas, and passionate for innovation and entrepreneurship. They seek to create and/or run an entrepreneurial venture, are getting ready to lead a small business, and have an interesting idea they are looking to convert into an innovative product or service. As a technology and innovation management student you will:

• Develop strategies for innovation
• Manage innovation projects
• Create and lead technology entrepreneurship
• Commercialize products
• Generate seed funding for start-ups
• Develop a viable business model
• Use analytics to make business decisions
• Identify businesses opportunities globally

Tracks

Two tracks cater to the unique needs of innovation managers and technology entrepreneurship.

• Technology management track: Designed to equip you with advanced skills in product development and data analytics enabling you to address organizational management and strategy needs.
• Technology entrepreneurship track: Equips you with skills required to start and manage new ventures utilizing research and marketing analytics, evaluate market options, and build strategy to capitalize on the options.

Access to Industry Technology and Resources 

Capitalize on a rich entrepreneurial culture on campus, with full access, hands-on exposure to facilities such as the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where you engage with:

• Industry experts and innovation coaches who provide one-on-one coaching and mentorship to develop your idea or start-up
• Idea labs where students get to solve actual problems of organizations and businesses
• Student Accelerator program where students get paid to develop their business concepts to seek angel investment
• Programs that solve real world challenges or teach students to raise funds to create and manage their own ventures
• Tiger tank competition where students pitch their early-stage product or service business idea to a panel of judges for prize money

Additional resources include The Construct, a world-class maker space; Venture Creations, RIT’s business incubator; and MAGIC Spell Studios, an entrepreneurial and commercial production studio. Teachers, industry mentors, an applied approach, and access to science, technology, engineering, and design resources prepare you to focus on entrepreneurial and innovation processes by which inventions and creative new ideas are brought to market.