Professional/Short course Enterprise and Innovation

Entry year
2025/26
Course code
USSJM615M
Application
University
Level
Professional/Short Course
School
School of Applied Sciences
Campus
Frenchay
Duration
Four months
Delivery
Face-to-face
Course Director
Professor Tony Killard

15 credit level 7 module

Introduction

Why study this module?

This 15 credit module, Enterprise and Innovation, will introduce you to the process of innovation management as it applies to the healthcare technology sector. You will use your healthcare technological innovation as a self-made case study, to which you can apply your learning in the innovation management process.

Why UWE Bristol?

On successful completion of this level 7 (Masters level) module, you will achieve the following learning outcomes:

  • Appraise and evaluate their ideas through appropriate intellectual property pathways and commercialisation activity.
  • Apply new critical thinking approaches to a defined technology development process.
  • Develop scientifically and technically rigorous project plans for the development of healthcare technologies, and effectively monitor the risks involved.
  • Critically evaluate the complexities of the regulatory environment associated with healthcare technology, and, with professional guidance, be able to apply the appropriate requirements to their used case study.

Where can it take me?

You will acquire all the essential aspects of the innovation pathway, from conceiving and testing innovative and creative ideas, through to exploiting them to achieve real world impact, be it economic or social. 

Careers / Further study

The Enterprise and Leadership module can contribute towards the following:

  • MSc Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science
  • MSc Health Technology.

Structure

Content

The module syllabus typically includes the following topics:

  • Innovation and creativity
  • Intellectual property (IP)
  • Technological development processes
  • Project management
  • Risk management
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Routes to exploitation
  • Business planning
  • Business management.

Learning and Teaching

This level 7 (Masters level) module will be delivered via lectures and a series of tutorials that support collaborative and interactive discussion, which will help inform and prepare for assessment.

Assessment

Assessment for this module comprises two-parts:

  • Group coursework (working as part of a team to develop an innovative healthcare technology concept)
  • Oral presentation (20 minutes) by the group followed by critical questioning (10 minutes).

Features

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