Business, Enterprise and Innovation Management (Top-Up) BSc (Hons)
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Business, Enterprise and Innovation Management (Top-Up) BSc (Hons)
Entry Requirements 2026/27
Standard Entry
BTEC HNC or equivalent in a related subject.
If you have taken a BTEC HNC programme, we will usually expect you to have performed to an average of Merit standard.
International Qualifications:
We welcome applicants with a range of qualifications which may not match those shown above.
If you have qualifications from outside the UK, find out what you need by visiting www.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry
English Language Requirements:
International applicants should have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with 5.5 in each component (or an approved equivalent*).
*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades in our English Language section: www.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications
Fees and Funding 2026/27 Entry
UK Fee in Year 1: TBC
* In relation to fees for UK students: £9,790 is the tuition fee. The remaining fees relate to the International Soccer Academy, and accommodation fees. Tuition fees in the academic year 2027/28* will be £10,050 (subject to Parliamentary approval, along with 2026/27 fees) Fees are set in line with the UK Government's tuition fee cap. The University may increase fees in subsequent years in line with any changes to the tuition fee cap. Increases will be linked to inflation. For example, increases may be linked to RPIX (Retail Price Index excluding mortgage interest payments) Students will be notified of any increase ahead of it taking effect. Student fee loans rise in line with the tuition fees cap. *if your course is longer than one year
* Fees subject to annual increases over the course of the period of study. Students will be liable for payment of any/all tuition fees which are not sponsored by their employer or other third party.
International Fee in Year 1: TBC
This is the tuition fee for your first year of study. You should expect to pay tuition fees for every year of study. The University may increase fees in the second and subsequent years of your course at our discretion in line with any inflationary or other uplift. Students will be notified of any increase ahead of it taking effect.
Tuition fees in the academic year 2027/28* will be £10,050 (subject to Parliamentary approval, along with 2026/27 fees) Fees are set in line with the UK Government's tuition fee cap. The University may increase fees in subsequent years in line with any changes to the tuition fee cap. Increases will be linked to inflation. For example, increases may be linked to RPIX (Retail Price Index excluding mortgage interest payments) Students will be notified of any increase ahead of it taking effect. Student fee loans rise in line with the tuition fees cap.
Discover More about Fees, Scholarships and other Funding options available for UK and International applicants for 26/27 entry.
ADDITIONAL COSTS
Students should be prepared to buy some of the course textbooks. This would average around £150 per annum for all textbooks required.
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Modules Overview 2026/27
Modules
Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.
Year one
LD6045 -
Design for Innovation (Core,20 Credits)
User-centric and hand-on problem solving can help us innovate in this competitive world. Innovation is a source of differentiation and can lead to create a competitive advantage. This module helps you to develop and cultivate a creative mind-set through design thinking and innovative practice, allowing you to bring together knowledge and creativity to construct a viable computer solution, service or a product. Indeed, this module uses design as a tool for user-centred innovation and provides an opportunity to take your design and innovation ideas, skills and talent to the wider user community of innovative practice.
Furthermore, the module will challenge you through an iterative process of requirements capture, ideation, concept design, development and rapid prototyping to deliver a functional proof-of-concept. The module is designed to teach design led innovation methods, techniques and processes that are required to develop a policy, system, service or product. This module will prepare you for later modules and final project which you can demonstrate your innovation in various problem-solving tasks.
Indictive topics covered include:
• Exploration and Ideation
• Design thinking models
• Innovation process and techniques
• Agile approaches and design thinking
• Prototyping Development methods
• Presentation and Pitching
LD6063 -
Contemporary Business Enquiry (Core,20 Credits)
This module will draw on your student learning across your undergraduate programme of study, the module aims to provide you with the opportunity to engage in depth with contemporary research in your specialist named degree. You will learn about critical thinking and reflection, and doing so, you will develop the necessary critical skills to perform both of these effectively as a learner in higher education. You will develop an enquiring mind and undertake a critical review of existing literature on a contemporary issue within business and management disciplines, applying appropriate methods to collection and analysis of extant research, including reviewing literature and critical evaluation of business practice and academic theory.
More informationLD6080 -
Academic Skills, Career and Leadership Development with Research Informed Learning (Core,20 Credits)
The module has twin aims, firstly to support your transition as a new learner to Northumbria University and develop your academic and research skills to ensure you maximise your learning and future grades potential. Secondly, to equip you with leadership knowledge and skills to maximise your future employability and career development.
Indeed, in the first part of the module we will help you to enhance your academic writing and critical thinking skills and enable you to understand research processes and approaches in business and management. Overall our aim is to boost your confidence as an independent learner along with developing your academic and research capabilities.
The second part of the module focuses on developing your leadership knowledge and skills so that you fully maximise your future employability and career development opportunities. Indeed, the crucial and complementary role of leadership, professional practice and management will run as a theme throughout the module. Specifically, the module emphasises the continually changing business and enterprise environment where leadership must understand the nature, characteristics, behaviours, preferences, and attitudes of the workforce to establish robust relationships with them, utilise their capabilities fully and galvanise them around the organisation's objectives.
As part of this module, you will also attend one day Leadership Development bootcamp where you will be involved in a range of practical activities and deal with complex scenarios which will assist you to explore the practical implementation of the learned concepts and enhance your interpersonal and intrapersonal capabilities through expert feedback and reflective practice.
Therefore, the module emphasises a critical understanding of relevant theoretical perspectives, experiential learning and reflective practices simultaneously to develop and enhance your research, career and leadership capability to deal with contemporary issues faced by organisations.
Indictive topics covered include
Understanding your role as a learner and how best to learn.
The value of a research rich approach as a means of enhancing your learning and informing organisational and personal practice
Understand research and effective use of academic literature (e.g. journal articles)
Teamwork and Self-awareness & career development
Critical review of Leadership and Management Theories
Emotional and Cultural Intelligence
Enhancing Employability through Psychometric Tests including Gamification, Assessment Centre Exercises and IQ/EQ based tests
Developing Personal Leadership and Management Skills [by assessing learners personalities, learning styles, aptitude and abilities]
Professionalism, Networking and Career Management
LD6081 -
Finance and Operations in Enterprise Context (Core,20 Credits)
This module connects the concepts of finance and operations in an enterprise context to help you identify the best investments for entrepreneurial ideas and appropriate sources of financing. Indeed, operations and finance management ensure competitive advantage for enterprises through integrated risk management approach using innovations, which transform labour, capital, materials, or information into products and services of greater value for customers.
Innovations in finance are transformations needed to improve a corporate value. As such developing an understanding of the importance of innovative finance helps to adapt to today’s era of disruption and rapid technological advancement. The contemporary business world, with its innovation-driven views, requires the use of innovative finance to improve corporate governance, business efficiency and growth.
As such this module helps you to develop a creative mind-set through creative thinking and innovative practice, allowing to gain knowledge, abilities, competences and skills of innovation finance and operations management. Specifically you will be able to understand, design and apply innovative finance models for various entrepreneurial ventures, improving real investments and revenue management. It is also recongnised that the success of any financial modelling is dependent on efficient use of operations and innovative designs of operations to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. As such you will consider and be able to select appropriate capital budgeting techniques for investment evaluation, as well as consider a wide variety of innovative sources of finance cosdireing the costs. The module will also prepare you for the final project which requires an application of innovation-driven thinking.
Indicative topics covered include:
Finance and Operations in Enterprise Context
Disruptive Innovation for competitive adavantage
Operations management, performance and strategy
Design (layout and flow, forecasting)
Planning and controlling operations (capacity management, inventory management, resources planning, quality management)
Costing
Budgeting, planning and control
Working capital management
Throughput Capital Budgeting
Sources of Finance and Cost of capital
Valuation (Techniques)
LD9634 -
Designing and Implementing SME Business Strategy (Core,20 Credits)
Any SME or wider organisation requires a carefully designed strategy. The module will enable you to extend your knowledge of SME and Business practice, particularly in the area of strategic thinking, and to employ your intellectual and practical skills in an SME context.
Specifically we will develop your awareness and critical evaluation of strategic management, building on the strategic analysis you have already undertaken in the Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Marketing module. In this module we will build on the market intelligence you have gathered and build a realistic strategy using a range of appropriate strategic tools and frameworks.
In order to develop your critical knowledge and understanding of strategic management we will consider the following areas:
• Schools of thought in Strategic Management
• Strategic Management in an SME digital context
• Strategic Planning
• Value Creation
• Competitive Strategy
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in an SME context
• Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• International Strategies for SMEs
• Strategy Implementation
The overall aim of this module is to support the enhancement of your potential leading within an SME or wider employability through developing your critical and applied understanding of strategic management tools and processes.
LD9635 -
Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Marketing Planning (Core,20 Credits)
One of the most important stages in the development of an SME or indeed to ensure the continued growth of an SME is to understand the nature of entrepreneurship, the need for creativity and the ability to analyse your market and plan effectively.
This is the focus of this module. We will begin by developing your understanding of entrepreneurship and the distinctive characteristics of a SME. We will then develop your critical appreciation of creativity and innovation and your ability to apply such concepts. Finally, we will consider the importance of market analysis and marketing in order to advance toward the creation of a marketing plan.
In order to develop your critical knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation and marketing, we will consider the following areas:
Entrepreneurship and marketing - the characteristics of entrepreneurs and the nature of SME marketing
Marketing and innovation and innovative marketing ideas including digital marketing
Product innovation and the Business concept
Developing creativity and design thinking
The design of marketing programmes - marketing strategy for smaller, entrepreneurial enterprises
Introduction to marketing planning
Small Business and Entrepreneurial Marketing Research
Environmental analysis
The nature of customers, segmentation, targeting, objectives and positioning
Building a Marketing Strategy as a basis for a marketing plan
Marketing and corporate communication
Pricing and value
Channels and distribution strategy - the Marketing/Logistics Interface
Creativity and branding - the changing role of brands and branding
Managing relationships and networking: interactive Customer Relationships
Corporate Social Responsibility - dilemmas and sustainability and the role of the entrepreneur
The overall aim of this module is to support the enhancement of your potential for marketing within an SME and wider employability through developing your critical and applied understanding of innovation, creativity and strategic marketing tools and processes.
To start your application, simply select the month you would like to start your course.
Business, Enterprise and Innovation Management (Top-Up) BSc (Hons)
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