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MSc Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Build the AI-powered ventures that will define the next decade.
AI is unlocking unprecedented opportunities to create value, innovate and build successful digital ventures. Today, turning a bold idea into a thriving business no longer requires vast capital or extensive resources. What matters most is having the right skills, knowledge and entrepreneurial mindset. Whether you aspire to launch your own venture or drive innovation within an established organisation, this programme equips you to seize these opportunities and turn ambitious ideas into commercial success.
Programme overview
AI is changing what can be built, who can build it, and how quickly new ventures can challenge established markets. The biggest opportunities aren't limited to software startups. They also sit inside professional services, healthcare, finance, retail, logistics, and countless other sectors where AI, alongside modern digital interfaces, can transform how value is created and scaled.
In this master's programme you will learn how to identify problems worth solving, design AI-enabled products around real user needs, shape value propositions, and build the commercial case for innovation. You will then move beyond ideas and planning to execution, by applying product management, user-centred design, agile delivery, and leadership practices.
By combining digital entrepreneurship, AI strategy, user-centred design, delivery management, and innovation leadership, the programme prepares you to create, evaluate, pitch, and lead technology-enabled ventures with commercial discipline.
You will graduate with the ability to recognise where AI creates genuine advantage, and how to turn digital innovation into products, services, and business models that people will actually use and pay for.
What you'll study
This programme includes core and optional modules. To earn a master’s degree, you must complete 180 credits. Modules are worth 15 or 30 credits. Full-time students complete 60 credits per semester and finish in one year. Part-time students complete 30 credits per semester and finish in two years.
See the programme specification for full details.
Gain the essential skills to launch, manage, scale, and exit successful online businesses in the age of AI. Learn how to assess a digital business opportunity and develop a credible route to market. Explore business models, product–market fit, finance, marketing and operations, including the decisions involved in launching, growing and exiting a venture.
Topic include: Digital Business Models, Product Market Fit, Entrepreneurial Finance Strategies, Value Proposition, Pitching and Presentation, Digital Marketing Strategies, Product Management, Operational Excellence, Financial Acumen and Growth Hacking.
Learn how to design digital systems around the people who use them. Investigate user needs and workflows, evaluate usability and identify barriers to adoption. Develop the understanding to make better design decisions and work more effectively with design and delivery teams.
Topic include: Human-Centred Design, Understanding Users, UX Design Techniques, Usability Evaluation, Information Architecture, Design Thinking, Advanced Design Principles, Error Prevention & Recovery and Agile Collaboration.
Evaluate where AI can create business value, where it falls short and what successful adoption requires. Explore implementation challenges, human–AI collaboration, risk and ethics so you can make better decisions about how your organisation uses AI.
Topic include: Business AI Fundamentals, AI Limitations and Boundaries, AI in Strategic Decision-Making, AI Deployment Challenges, AI and Human Collaboration, Organisational Transformation, Risk Management in AI, Ethical AI and Social Responsibility and Future AI Trends.
Learn to turn digital priorities into organised delivery. Apply agile, Scrum and lean approaches while managing stakeholders, budgets, resources and risk. Understand how governance and change management help keep projects aligned with business goals.
Topic include: Digital Product Lifecycle, Agile and Scrum, Lean Methodologies, Alignment with Business Goals, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Resource and Budget Control, Risk Management and Governance and Compliance.
Develop your approach to leading innovation when priorities compete and outcomes are uncertain. Explore how to support creative teams, manage resistance, assess risk and scale promising ideas while keeping work connected to organisational goals.
Topic include: Principles of Innovation, Leadership Styles, Fostering Creativity, Managing Innovation Teams, Navigating Change, Risk Management, Scaling Innovation, Collaboration Models and Digital Transformation.
Learn to turn business needs into clear, prioritised requirements that delivery teams can act on. Practise identifying stakeholder needs, defining system behaviour, controlling scope and checking that the proposed solution addresses the original problem.
Topic include: Eliciting Requirements, Analysing Requirements, Modelling System Behaviours, Specifying Requirements, Prioritising Requirements, Maintaining Traceability, Managing Scope Creep, Validating and Testing and Agile Framework Integration.
Understand how digital businesses create value and how technology decisions are shaped by markets, organisational culture and commercial priorities. Use that understanding to assess opportunities, navigate internal politics and plan your own career development.
Topic include: Digital Economy, Tech Ecosystems & Platforms, Strategic Tech Implementation, Navigating Commercial Politics, Organisational Dynamics & Culture, Industry-Specific Tech Adoption, Career Pathways & Progression, Professional Self-Assessment and Designing Your Career Strategy.
Bring your learning together in an independent project, supported by one-to-one supervision and structured seminars. Investigate a problem, develop and evaluate a practical response, and communicate your findings. Depending on your approved proposal, your output could include a framework, implementation plan, analytical tool or prototype.
Entry requirements
To apply, you must meet all of the following:
Qualifications or experiences
This programme is designed for established professionals. To qualify, you should have a degree (in any field), as well as at least 2 years' experience in a technical, administrative, analytical or managerial role involving intellectually demanding work.
Alternatively, applicants without a degree can qualify if they have at least 4 years' commercial experience in a technical, managerial or analytical role involving intellectually demanding work.
Alternatively, applicants without a degree can qualify if they have at least 4 years' commercial experience in a technical, managerial or analytical role involving intellectually demanding work.
English language
To succeed on this programme, strong academic English is essential.
If you are from a majority English-speaking country or have previously studied in English (university or school), no proof is needed.
Otherwise, you should provide a valid certificate, such as Duolingo, EnglishScore, IELTS, TOEFL, or equivalent, with an overall IELTS Academic equivalent of 6.5 and no component below 5.5. If you don't already have one, you can take an English test on your mobile phone.
If you are from a majority English-speaking country or have previously studied in English (university or school), no proof is needed.
Otherwise, you should provide a valid certificate, such as Duolingo, EnglishScore, IELTS, TOEFL, or equivalent, with an overall IELTS Academic equivalent of 6.5 and no component below 5.5. If you don't already have one, you can take an English test on your mobile phone.
Skills and outcomes
Professional development
This programme is designed to change how you think, not just what you know.
You will get better at spotting opportunities, asking sharper questions, challenging weak assumptions, and deciding when the answer isn't obvious. You will practise explaining ideas clearly, defending commercial choices, and working through the uncertainty that comes with innovation.
As your confidence grows, you will develop a practical entrepreneurial mindset: curious, sceptical, commercially aware, and comfortable with incomplete information. By the end, you will be better prepared to lead AI and digital innovation with judgement, clarity, and realism.
Real-world application
Innovation matters only when it survives contact with customers, budgets, deadlines, and investor meetings.
Throughout this course, you will apply what you learn to real venture and transformation scenarios: shaping AI-powered service ideas, testing value propositions, designing user-centred digital experiences, building business cases, and planning delivery.
The focus is not pretty slides about "disruption", but ideas with a clear user, a credible market, a workable model, and a reason to exist.
By the end, you will have practical evidence of your ability to turn digital and AI opportunities into structured proposals, prototypes, delivery plans, and business arguments usable in a startup, consultancy, product team, or existing organisation.
Why study at LSI?
Because you want to become an AI-native leader.
Specialist in
tech & innovation
LSI’s focus on digital technology, innovation and entrepreneurship connects what you study with the challenges of leading change.
Explore technology alongside the commercial and organisational decisions that determine its value.
AI-enhanced
learning
LSI’s award-winning AI platform acts as a 24/7 learning companion, helping you work through material, test your understanding, receive formative feedback, and identify gaps earlier.
The system provides multimedia explanations, interactive tasks, formative checks, and feedback on your work, while academic staff remain responsible for judgement, standards, and support.
Regular
one-to-one support
Use regular one-to-one academic conversations to question ideas, discuss difficult material and get guidance on your progress.
Alongside subject support, your personal academic tutor helps you navigate the demands of postgraduate study.
A network of
ambitious peers
You'll study alongside ambitious, curious people. Those relationships rarely end at graduation.
Your peers and the wider LSI alumni network become collaborators, sounding boards, and the contacts who open doors long after you've finished.
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Career prospects
Graduates of this programme are equipped to create the future of business, leading with confidence and clarity in the digital economy.
The programme’s primary focus is preparing you to launch, fund, and scale your own AI-powered venture successfully, whether that means building a fully digital startup from scratch or transforming a traditional service model with advanced technology.
Additionally, your entrepreneurial agility will make you highly sought after as an "intrapreneur" within established organisations. Legacy industries urgently need leaders who think like founders to spearhead digital transformation and launch new internal corporate ventures.
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Work through course material with AI-supported explanations and practice, then deepen your understanding through discussion and guidance from academic staff.
Virtual
private tutor
This isn’t a chatbot. It’s a tutor that guides you through hands-on learning, at your pace. Read, watch or listen anytime, on your phone during a commute or workout, or on your laptop at 2am before a deadline.
Through text, audio, visual feedback, formative questions, and assignment critique, the tutor helps you keep moving between scheduled sessions with academic staff.
Master
the theory with AI
Every lesson adjusts to your pace and what you already know, so you're never stuck on the obvious or lost in the difficult.
Most subjects don't run in a straight line. Our Interactive Knowledge Graph maps how concepts connect and build on each other, then tracks what you've mastered and what still needs work, so nothing important slips through the cracks.
Instant feedback
for assignments
Get useful feedback the moment you submit, instead of waiting days to find out where you went wrong, then act on it while the work is still fresh in your mind.
This doesn't replace your tutors or academic judgement. Detailed feedback from faculty can be requested right after AI feedback. What it adds is momentum: you keep moving forward instead of stalling between submission and review.
Role-play
with AI
Rehearse the high-stakes moments before they're real. In AI-driven role-play, you make decisions in lifelike professional scenarios and see how they play out, so you build confidence where it's safe to get things wrong.
Judgement comes from practice, not theory alone. You might lead a tense project review, work through an ethical AI dilemma, negotiate a technical trade-off, or troubleshoot a system failure against the clock, each scenario repeatable and tied to what you're learning.
FAQs
We recommend that all prospective students apply as soon as possible to secure their place in their desired programme. Each programme's prospectus and promotional materials outline specific start dates that align with our effective registration periods. By applying early, you ensure that you have ample time to meet any conditions of your offer.
Once we receive your completed application, including references and supporting documents, we aim to complete the decision-making process within 8-weeks. However, this timeframe may vary during peak periods or if an interview is part of the selection process.
If you have applied for a specific funded opportunity, please note that decisions may take longer than usual. We encourage you to reach out to our Student Success Team at support@lsi.ac.uk if you have not received an update after 8-weeks or if you have any other questions regarding your application. Your journey to joining our School is important to us, and we appreciate your patience as we review your application.
While we understand that circumstances can sometimes prevent timely submissions, extensions for application deadlines are not guaranteed. Requests for extensions will be considered on a case-by-case basis, depending on the specific situation and the reasons provided.
To initiate this process, please contact our Student Success Team at support@lsi.ac.uk as soon as possible with a detailed explanation of your circumstances. We encourage prospective students to stay informed about application deadlines and to submit their applications promptly to ensure the best chance of a successful enrolment.
You can still submit your application even if you have not yet received all of your documents, such as your final transcript or Certificate of English Proficiency. In such cases, you will receive a conditional offer outlining the specific qualifications and grades you need to achieve in order to meet our entry requirements.
Once you have obtained the necessary evidence, you can easily upload it through the Admission Portal. Upon satisfying all the conditions stated in your conditional offer, you will then receive an unconditional offer, allowing you to proceed with your studies at our School.
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