Course Overview

The MSc Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship is embedded in a department passionate about supporting students dedicated to social and environmental change.

The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship hosts the Socially Progressive Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPIE) Research Cluster. SPIE aims to promote knowledge exchange and share new methodologies for socially progressive research and entrepreneurship, prompting trans-disciplinary investigation across real-world contexts.

Social innovation is concerned with ideas that address unmet social needs. Socially innovative ideas include restorative justice, hospices, kindergartens, distance learning and traffic calming (Mulgan et al., 2007). These ideas are usually brought to fruition through an entrepreneurial process concerned with turning innovations into viable and sustainable business models.

Never before has social innovation and entrepreneurship been so central to society: climate change, the threat of pandemics, an increase in world population and poverty are only some of the mega-trends that require novel solutions and business models to implement them.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals stem from a global urge to address such issues. In tandem with the latter, research in this area has grown significantly in recent years. This is an important area of study, practice and teaching.

General Eligibility

Academic requirements

Minimum second-class honours degree or overseas equivalent (view the entry requirements for your country) in any subject.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• 6.5 IELTS score, with no individual score lower than 5.5.