Programme content and structure
From idea to innovation
A wide variety of specialists are required throughout an innovation process – from marketing and development to production and service.
You focus on one of two areas of specialisation: Internal link opens in the same window:Product Innovation or Internal link opens in the same window:Business Innovation.
Entry requirements
The Master's in Innovation Engineering is a full-time, on-campus programme – the only way to adequately teach and work on the demanding content and the one-year innovation project. A small amount of part-time work is possible. The master's thesis in the third semester can of course also be completed in a company.
Product Innovation
The "Product Innovation" specialisation is a useful extension of the bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration and Engineering, but is also of particular interest to pure engineers, physicists or mathematicians who would like to enhance their technical or scientific training with organisational, planning and management skills! Prerequisites for success are basic knowledge of engineering or mathematics/natural sciences as well as computer science/programming skills. No previous knowledge of business is required.
Business Innovation
The "Business Innovation" specialisation is open to (industrial) engineers as well as graduates of computer science, business or media informatics, mathematics and physics as well as business administration. The increasingly important IT topics are further deepened in this programme, which is why this area of specialisation also requires basic computer science or programming knowledge.
IEM specifics
Master's with a knack for technology
With the IEM you gain the following specific skills:
- use of highly efficient technical development tools such as CAx methods, smart factory and innovative manufacturing methods (Product Innovation focus)
- modern business process development skills such as service methods, asset management or business process management (Business Innovation focus)
- personal development through training in interdisciplinary methods such as design thinking or system cybernetics
- strategic management and Internal link opens in the same window:leadership skills
- practical implementation based on a one-year innovation project and with the help of effective tools for data processing with and without AI
Special features
One degree programme, two degrees
If you study for three semesters at External link opens in a new window:Napier University (UK) and write your thesis in Scotland, you will receive a second master's degree from our AACSB-accredited partner university in Edinburgh.
More good reasons to study Innovation Engineering
- We teach holistic skills in the areas of innovative technologies, solutions and innovation management.
- The course is characterised by current areas of study that are in high demand in business.
- Modern laboratories and cooperation with companies mean the course is very practice-oriented.
- The programme is team-oriented and students conduct research in a one-year project with the opportunity to take a subsequent further academic qualification.
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Your career prospects
Your career springboard
- Goal-oriented and highly effective
Our graduates are experts in goal-oriented product innovation based on interdisciplinary engineering expertise, typically in medium-sized companies. You are able to independently develop and implement new innovative solutions (products, services, processes) for technically oriented issues. - Plan and realise innovations
The focus is on the holistic and goal-oriented planning, design and realisation of innovations. Areas of application include development, design, production, product planning and product management − particularly at their interfaces. Our graduates are prepared to take on responsibilities in the management of development groups and departments, technical management or management in the medium term. - Doctorate
The master's gives you the opportunity to do a doctorate – at one of our partner universities or as a cooperative doctorate with us. - Potential career paths
Our graduates work in the following professional fields:- Innovation management
- Technology Management
- Innovation Engineering
- Technology Scouting
- Idea Management
- Process Management
- Technology Advisory
- Change Management
- Service Management
Your key contact
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