Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

In collaboration with MIT Sloan

Join MEIM – Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, the new study program offered by Parthenope University in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan) in Cambridge, USA. Take the chance to attend classes at one of the top-ranked universities in the world, empower your aptitude, enhance your competencies, and launch a successful career in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.

What is MEIM?

MEIM – Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management is a 12-month full-time study program, born from a collaboration between Parthenope University and the MIT Sloan School of Management, the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge – USA.

The two-terms program provides a higher level of professional competence in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, giving you the chance to attend classes at MIT Sloan during a three-week on-campus visit. The educational style offered means to build competencies in the field of entrepreneurial leadership, focusing on subjects like value creation, soft skills acquisition, business model design, and disruptive innovation.

Purpose

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management is more than just acquiring a range of competencies, developing skills, or a specific mindset that will help you better establish yourself in the business scenario.

The nature of entrepreneurship has changed over the last generation. The entrepreneur is the key player, the one who brings the ideas and drives the innovation. Entrepreneurs are visionaries and their abilities go beyond handling resources and assessing investment. They need to be inspirational leaders creating a stirring and engaging ecosystem starting from a creative flair and a strong aptitude.

MIT Sloan Full Immersion Program

Students will participate in the three-week MIT Sloan immersion program, on the Cambridge campus, where they will have the opportunity to enrich their knowledge in a cutting-edge international context.

During the three-week on-campus immersion program, you will enhance your ability to think out of the box when facing challenging scenarios and react strategically and promptly to complex issues through classes developed from the latest research.

Moreover, not only will living in Cambridge/Boston give you the chance to experience first-hand the current reality of one of the most important international markets, but also to extend your network relationships, broaden your horizons, and nurture your aptitude.

From Cambridge to Naples

The MIT Sloan journey doesn’t stop in Cambridge; it continues in Naples. At Parthenope University, 120 academic hours will be taught by MIT Sloan faculty. This part of the program is designed as innovative educational experimentation. Experiencing the expertise and the teaching approach of MIT Sloan faculty in a different academic context is supposed to be a stimulating and inspirational event in your educational path.

Being an entrepreneur means being capable of bringing about economic and social change in your community as well as throughout the world and learning how to work successfully together. That’s what the MIT Sloan faculty.

MEIM Labs

We created four labs for you, each one aimed at empowering and improving very specific skills and shaping an entrepreneurial outlook.

Soft Skills Lab

If you want to have a real impact in the business world, create the value that contributes to society and make a real change, you need to empower your soft skills.

Working on soft skills means adding value to your social and emotional intelligence that will allow you to navigate your environment, improve your interpersonal capabilities, help you to work well with others, and understand what people need.

In particular, our Soft Skills Lab will help you develop your social and people skills, your cognitive and emotional empathy, and your leadership traits. It will also give you tips to reach a psychological balance and develop the ability to work under pressure and handle stress.

We can say that hard skills are what you need to know, soft skills are what you need to be.

You will focus on:

• Personal Communication
• Data Analysis & Presentation
• Teamwork & Leadership
• Adaptability & Stress Management
• Problem-Solving & Creativity
• Work Ethic
• Time Management
• Self - Empowerment

Entrepreneurship Lab

There are several differences between an entrepreneur and a business person or a manager. Entrepreneurs do not limit themselves to managing what is already there; they have curiosity, ambition, and aptitude to innovate change. They are the ones who want to improve the world.

MEIM wants to boost your entrepreneurial aptitude, building your skills and knowledge to handle the start of a revolution in the changeable business world.

You will focus on:

• Opportunity Sensemaking
• Idea Generation
• Lean & Agile Approaches
• Business Experimentation
• Tools for Start-uppers

Business English Lab

Effective communication is essential to create a successful business, to reach credibility, to connect and negotiate with big stakeholders, and to make your way in the entrepreneurship world. Thanks to our Business English Lab, you will speak fluently and write properly the international language of business.

You will focus on:

• Business Terminology
• Resumes & Cover Letters
• Business Presentations
• Business Correspondence
• Communication Skills in Meetings/Negotiations
• Public Speaking
• Networking Conversations

Tech Skills Lab

Being able to use the latest technology tools and business computer programs is not an optional choice to make a real mark in the future of entrepreneurship. The Tech Skills Lab is thought to improve your capability of using the latest digital business tools and to upgrade your business.

You will focus on:

• Additive Manufacturing
• Digital Technologies
• AI/Machine Learning
• Smart Materials
• Robotics
• Big Data, Security, and Blockchain

Hands-on Experiences

By joining MEIM you will be involved in a real-life work environment.

Project Work

Before the end of the second semester, you and your colleagues and will be divided into teams of four participants. Each team will be assigned a business challenge.

The project work consists of the resolution of real corporation tasks proposed by our partners. You will have three months to complete the task. The outcomes will be evaluated by an industrial evaluation committee.

Startup Project or Internship

At the end of the program, you will gain the opportunity to choose two different kinds of professional experience.

Our academic tutors and our partners will guide you to find the most suitable format for you in accordance with your academic results and your personal aptitude.

The options offered are an internship or a startup project. Both provide you with a high degree of expertise and are a concrete way to start your future career, either running solo or in a corporate environment.

At MEIM You will:

• Gain cross-cutting competencies and maximize your professional impact.
• Acquire the capability to identify market opportunities and to design, conceptualize, and start a new enterprise.
• Nurture your aptitude as a creative and inspirational leader.

Study full-time at MIT Sloan: Enter the selection to MSMS.

After completing MEIM, you will have the opportunity to enter the selection process for MSMS - Master of Science in Management Studies, a program directly offered by MIT Sloan.

In case of admission, as a former MEIM student, you will have the benefit of obtaining the MSMS degree in only nine months which you will spend on campus in Cambridge, USA.

This opportunity is only reserved for students who attended an MIT Sloan affiliate global program, such as MEIM, from an MIT Sloan affiliate school such as Parthenope.