Description
Learn all about circular and inclusive business development, creative innovation and ethical technological implementation during the unique curriculum of Sustainable Business Transition. Work on innovative challenges with leading companies and become a transition expert. The course curriculum prepares students to work as a transition expert with an innovative, sustainable and creative mindset.
The state-of-the-art and future-oriented Master Sustainable Business Transition (SBT) trains you, as the business professional of tomorrow, to work in the new economy. Learn about sustainable change, creativity and technology. Become a transition expert and system thinker who tackles complex problems in the work field. Develop sustainable business models, reflect on the ethical impact of technologies, and work with clients on real-life cases. As a transition expert, you help companies innovate in a way that benefits the community and the world.
Requirement
If you want to start with the Master SBT, you need to have a Bachelor’s degree in the economic domain.
If you have an accredited Bachelor's degree from a different domain, Then you need at least 60 credits in courses taken in the economic domain, such as business, entrepreneurship and/or management.
If English is not your native language, you must provide a result from an internationally recognised test of English.
Structure
During the unique curriculum of Sustainable Business Transition you are trained as a transition expert. You will become competent in sustainable business development, innovation, creative thinking and applied research. Together with leading companies, you work on innovation challenges.
In the first module, you specialise in sustainable business development and the circular economy. You learn to develop sustainable solutions for existing companies. You learn to evaluate different sustainable, circular and inclusive business models. These insights are paired with system thinking, and practical tools such as ecosystem mapping, which helps analyse the complex networks around organisations. You will learn to create sustainable business models, analyse complex systems, and propose a sustainable business model.
In module 2, you’ll look at the ethical and social consequences of business models, and learn to look at the long-term consequences of “Big Tech”. You analyse new technologies and look towards the future to tackle deeper questions of power, surveillance, inclusion and value. The impact of data-driven technologies, from AI to the Internet of Things, is discussed on a deeper social and ethical level. We use concepts from critical algorithm studies, STS and other fields to assess these developments.
Module three offers two courses on the theme shared value, as well as an elective of your choice. This course focuses on alternative business models, driven by strategic collaborations with the community itself and the entire business ecosystem. The focus on co-creation with different stakeholders and actors in the business ecosystem has become inevitable. As a result, new collaborative business models have emerged. Think of hybrid organisations, crowdfunding models, and even completely decentralised businesses on the blockchain.
In the final module, you will have to apply all the competences of SBT in a high-level individual project. You apply the knowledge, ways of working and ways of collaborating that you gathered throughout the programme to your graduation challenge. These challenges are formulated by clients from the work field and solved in small learning teams, where each student explores a different facet of the problem. You will work on a professional product (such as a sustainable business model or a strategy) and thesis individually.