Innovation and Entrepreneurship MPhil

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship comprises a group of academic staff with research interests in two related areas: design innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning both commercial and social sectors. This includes research wholly contained within one of these disciplines or bridging both subjects.<br/><br/>The centre has a reputation for a collaborative and participatory approach to teaching and research, ensuring impact for its stakeholders.<br/><br/>The profile of our team, most of whom are both practitioners and scholars, helps to ensure continual collaboration between academic and non-academic applied settings. We, therefore, welcome and encourage students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Students may join directly from university studies or be experienced professionals, for example, established entrepreneurs or designers.<br/><br/>Our research areas include:<br/><br/><strong>Entrepreneurship</strong><br/><br/><br/>• Strategy<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Entrepreneurial behaviours<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Mergers and acquisitions<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Entrepreneurship education<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Social justice<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Innovation leadership and culture<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Enterprise education<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Design thinking<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Service design<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Wicked problems<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Social innovation<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Interdisciplinary partnerships<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Drivers of company performance<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>Design innovation</strong><br/><br/><br/>• Design for sustainability<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Design<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Consumer behaviour<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Design for policy<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Feminist design<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Futures and scenarios<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Human-centred design / prototyping<br/><br/><br/><br/>• UX/interface design / human-computer interaction<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Ethics, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies and AI<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Design for social innovation<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Advertising<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Nature-centred design<br/><br/><br/><br/>For more information visit the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/innovation/<br/><br/>Possible start dates are September 2026 and January 2027. Please see the programme page on our website for more information.