Society is calling out for profound change, and entrepreneurs are leading the way - right here at Audencia.

From a crowdfunding platform for people with disabilities to IT equipment distribution for companies in a green transformation, there are many ways graduates of the MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Impact are building business models around the needs of customers, society and the environment..

From small businesses to big corporations, entrepreneurship fosters growth and innovation. Learn how to give equal weight to profitability and impact when starting or evaluating a new business, venture or initiative. As a part of your programme, you'll get involved in real business projects with creation phase entrepreneurs who are part of the local business ecosystem. This helps you build your network in Nantes, France, wider Europe and further abroad - and connects you to a top-ranking institution for corporate social responsibility and sustainability.

About the programme:

The MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Impact gives you access to a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem. This programme collaborates with the Centrale-Audencia-ensa incubator, where you can work on real entrepreneurial projects in the creation phase and network with members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and local businesses.

An experience-based approach at the heart of the teaching: throughout the programme theoretical courses will combine with immersion experiences involving Audencia partner organisations, you will have to act, observe and think.

A choice of three specialisations:

• Tech & Impact Ventures and Innovative & Impact Ventures: you will be able to experience the very first phases of the venture process. Passing from intuition to business idea to a real business/organisation/association project that you will make real as the active entrepreneur involved.
• Intrapreneur: immersed in the local economic fabric, taking on the challenges proposed by local professionals, you will be proposing turnkey solutions and autonomous and realistic organisational operation methods
• Business support: you will operate as support to professionals from the entrepreneurial eco-system and your co-students as they launch their own personal entrepreneurial projects.

Career outcomes:

Here are a number of examples of positions you could occupy after completing the programme:

Tech & Impact Ventures and Innovative & Impact Ventures, such as:

• (co)Founder
• Member of a venture team
• Innovator, source of social innovation
• Intrapreneur
• Project manager
• Operations manager
• Business unit creator
• Franchise developer
• Member of a venture team

Business support positions, such as:

• General support - from global concept support to growth support
• Specialist - for specific instances and contexts (e.g.: financing, fundraising, growth, franchising, etc.)