The University of Luxembourg was founded in 2003 and is the only public university in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. With more than 8,000 students and approximately 2,500 employees from around the world, our University provides a truly cosmopolitan learning experience. 60% of students are international students, and the majority of staff members and academics have an international background. Our strategic development areas are digital transformation, medicine and health, and sustainable and societal development. Our students can choose between 23 Bachelor degrees and 47 Master degrees, as well as several vocational training and lifelong learning courses. Programmes are generally taught in two languages (French/English or French/German), some in three languages and some entirely in English, in particular at the Master level. All our Bachelor students spend one mandatory semester abroad.
Applicants should hold a Master’s degree or the first year of a Master’s degree (240 ECTS) in traditional business disciplines. Students holding Humanities or Science degrees (biology, physics and engineering, for instance) are also invited to apply.
Candidates holding a Bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS) and a substantial amount of professional experience (3 years) are also welcome.
Admission is conditional to the examination of the applicant’s scholastic record.
Entrepreneurship has become an increasingly popular term that can be evidenced in different spheres of the economy and society. More commonly, entrepreneurial behaviours are associated with new start-up ventures where risk, ownership and management are combined to exploit new market or technological opportunities. But such activities can also be seen in corporate, social, public, civic, community and small business contexts to reflect organizational efforts to sustain competitive advantage, uniqueness and novelty. This is partly because the twenty-first century is characterized by a fast moving, competitive and global economy. Sustaining a competitive advantage requires that individuals, companies and nations are able to anticipate and stimulate (rather than merely manage) change.
Entrepreneurship is about exploiting ambiguities and contingencies. More importantly, entrepreneurship is about experiencing a tension between ‘what is’ in the present and ‘what should be’ in the future – and then converting that tension into an entrepreneurial problem that can resolve the tension. Such a process demands concepts and knowledge from different disciplines, and the integration of these concepts with the know-how and practical experience of daily business practice.The programme aims at achieving that integration, optimally balancing theory and know-how.
The programme is structured into 6 knowledge blocks that introduce the ideas and tools necessary to understand the theory of entrepreneurship and innovation; and apply entrepreneurship in practice.
Project-based Internship(s) and the masters thesis and the student-mentor-faculty relation
In semester 2, students work on a project based internship that leads to a Masters thesis. Linking students to companies is facilitated through matchmaking events between the LBA and companies in the Greater Region.
Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
