Fact Sheet

Conducting business in an entrepreneurial way and having the capacity for innovation are the most important competitive factors in many sectors. Today, the existing economic structures are altered through innovation. Companies failing to rise to this challenge disappear from the market place. The ability to seize entrepreneurial opportunities will become a key qualification for executives and managers. The specialization in Entrepreneurship & Innovation communicates the appropriate skills and techniques teaching entrepreneurial thinking and acting. It is particularly at the interface between economics and technology that there lies a great deal of unexplored potential.

Partners

• Vienna University of Economics and Business,
  WU Executive Academy
• Vienna University of Technology
  
  

 

Accreditation

• EQUIS
• FIBAA
  
  

Focus

 

• Sources of Innovation
• Strategies of Innovation
• Marketing of Innovation
• Organization of Innovation
• Financing and Controlling of Innovation
• Entrepreneurial Leadership
  
  

Duration

• 18 months plus master thesis
• Part-time
  
  

Target Group

• Executives, who have positioned themselves as innovation leaders, or who wish to do so in the future
• Engineers, scientists and specialists in product marketing or product controlling with managerial experience
• High-potentials aiming at preparing themselves for an innovation-orientated managerial function
• Aspiring and current entrepreneurs with a technological background
  
  

Academic Directors

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke
Prof. Dr. Sabine Theresia Köszegi

Location
Vienna

Language
English

Final Degree
"Master of Business Administration" (MBA) awarded jointly by the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Vienna University of Technology.

Program Start
October, annually

Tuition Fee

• EUR 25,000 (including course materials, catering during the modules)
• Lodging and travel expenses are not covered by the program fee.
  
• The program fee is exempt from VAT according to § 6 paragraph 12 Austrian Value Added Tax Law. 
  

Employees and self-employed persons save up to 50% of the program fee
Up to 50% of the total program fee are fully tax deductible and will be refunded if the respective program is job-related. For detailed information please click here.

Errors and omissions excepted!

Further Information 
Brochure Download: A detailed program brochure is available for download at the top of this page.

General information on the Professional MBA program is available here.

Information on the WU Vienna and the WU Executive Academy is available here.