Entrepreneurship and technological innovation

Overview

Change and growth in Missouri and America require the training and nourishing of entrepreneurs. Many individuals, however, do not yet recognize the entrepreneurial spirit in themselves. While you may not be sure if you have what it takes to drive innovation, recent entrepreneurship research indicates that many of the skills and much of the knowledge of successful entrepreneurs can be developed and taught in the classroom.

The graduate certificate in entrepreneurship and technological innovation will help spark your entrepreneurial spirit and provide a solid foundation on which to build your skills and knowledge. 

To that end, the program focuses on the following competencies:

• Recognizing opportunity
• Fostering innovations
• Leveraging resources
• Design thinking
• Assessing opportunity
• Mastering creativity
• Mitigating and managing risk
• Implementing new ideas
• Planning under uncertainty
• Building and managing networks
• Focus and adaptability

Pathway to a master's degree

Are you a working professional who wants to earn your master's degree, but you don’t have time to take the GRE/GMAT? Then start in a graduate certificate program. This graduate certificate was designed as a pathway to an MBA or information science and technology MS.

The admission requirements are more relaxed and credit earned will count toward your degree. Once you successfully earn your graduate certificate, you can continue with the corresponding master's degree without having to take the GRE/GMAT. Completion of a graduate certificate program does not automatically guarantee admission into a corresponding graduate degree program. To continue in a master’s degree program, you must apply. If you are applying to a PhD program, you are still required to submit GRE/GMAT scores.