DEPARTMENT of MANAGEMENT and ORGANIZATIONS
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Minor
Innovation and entrepreneurship are key to business success. Start your own business, lead change in an existing company or consult with business and governments to enhance their productivity and economic growth.
A minor in innovation and entrepreneurship prepares you to solve workplace problems, improve processes and services, and thrive in uncertain business environments.
Why take this minor?
The faculty members who teach this minor are experienced entrepreneurs. They can explain the initial stages of a new venture, equip you to start your own business and show you how to support organizations that value innovation.
All core courses include practical components, such as meeting with community mentors, tackling real-world projects and working for and with local entrepreneurs.
What to expect
The innovation and entrepreneurship minor uses real-world learning experiences to teach you about entrepreneurship’s place within the economy and to show you how innovation adds value to products, services and processes. Working together with your classmates, you actively engage in start-up projects with community mentors. You learn to diagnose problems, understand client-consultant relationships and manage change for local businesses.
Outside the classroom, you can get involved with student clubs and events, such as Enactus, RBC Foundation Ventures @ MacEwan and the MacEwan Entrepreneurship Organization.
Job-ready skills
A background in innovation and entrepreneurship sets you up for a variety of job opportunities. You could:
- Start your own business and work as an independent entrepreneur
- Help start-ups and businesses at all stages as an innovation consultant
- Work in a larger organization as an intrapreneur and innovator
In this minor, you develop your ability to:
- Think and act independently and creatively
- Solve problems using market research and analytics
- Build resilience and adaptability in the workplace
- Advance sustainable and socially responsible decision-making
- Use networks to improve business outcomes
- Manage change
The Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) hosts detailed occupational profiles, salary survey data, trend reports and assessment tools to help you choose and plan a career that matches your skills and interests.
25%
of Canadians are interested in running their own business
41%
of new entrepreneurs have at least a bachelor's degree
90%
of Canadian entrepreneurs say they are professionally satisfied
*Source: Made in CA
Program of study
MINOR | BACHELOR OF COMMERCE
This program of study is open to students in the Bachelor of Commerce. Courses for your minor are only one component of your degree. You must complete all courses and requirements outlined in the academic calendar for the year you declare or redeclare your major and minor or the year you are accepted into an Honours program.
