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MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship is the only unique Master’s level program in Ukraine for individuals who are starting their own businesses and making strategic decisions. This program provides systematic knowledge and skills for managing and improving their own business in any field.
This program is designed for entrepreneurs who focus on finding winning business models, structuring their own companies, improving and building the process of creating innovations in various fields.
The program is designed for:
We invite entrepreneurs who have experience in creating and managing teams, communicating with clients, and finding solutions in conditions of constant change. During the learning process, participants work on improving their existing business or creating a new project within their company that can take it to a new qualitative level.
Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:
Admission for the 2023 Master’s Programs at UCU Business School is now open! Each of the master’s programs has been updated and transformed, maximizing the response to business needs and the rethinking of meanings. The best teachers from Ukraine and international business schools are involved in teaching, and despite the war, they are willing to come to Ukraine and share their knowledge with participants for even more effective country recovery in the future.
To apply for the master’s programs this year, you need to:
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Educational modules of the program:
Additionally, there are 5 free choice disciplines.
*Part of the courses are taught in English.
Teaching is based on interactive teaching methods and includes “live” cases, master classes and speeches by invited guests, communication with leading top managers, situational exercises based on examples of Ukrainian companies, and other innovative methods. Along with modern teaching methods and a significant practical component, project-based learning is widely used, aimed at the effective solution of existing tasks of a specific enterprise represented by the participant.
Requirements for admission to the Master’s program in Management include proficiency in English at the level required by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Applicants must hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in any field (foreign diplomas must be recognized) and have at least two years of experience in leading a team, business, or enterprise.
The instructors use the case study method in teaching, including cases from the most well-known companies in the world and international teaching materials from the best business schools in the world.
The program is constantly improving and provides access to leading business, entrepreneurship, and innovation practitioners and educators.
Training takes place on real-life cases and challenges of Ukrainian companies, where participants have the opportunity to apply theory into practice. Participants can develop their own business project, work on prototypes of new products, and test them for viability.
Program participants have the opportunity for additional academic international mobility. Different formats are available for studying abroad, both online and offline.
Business meetings, networking, and introductions help participants develop their own business and build communities.
Participants have the chance to receive funding for their own startup project from Angel One, a venture fund created by the UCU Foundation.
Learning about innovation and entrepreneurship programs is a way to expand borders in all directions. It helped me to think comprehensively, and the UCU Business School became a place of strength for me, like a matrix that you connect to and fill with energy.
The result of studying in the program was the business project called The EngL.
I had a feeling that I had already conquered a certain peak, reached great heights, and it was super comfortable for me there. Then I realized: now I want a new summit. Learning became this trampoline for me, which helped me transition from one peak to another. It was a hyperloop effect, incredibly cool, because the changes were happening at all levels.
LvBS is a place of strength, where you come and it charges you up, and with new wingspan, you fly further.
I chose the Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at a stage when I already had a lot of experience and knowledge from running my own business. However, I had been doing it intuitively, without fundamental knowledge or deliberate skills.
Studying at the UCU Business School gave me the opportunity to systematize my existing knowledge, make it conscious, and acquire new knowledge thanks to the excellent teachers and the wonderful management of the learning process. In addition, I became part of a unique innovation community, expanded my worldview, and simply enjoyed every class.
Studying at LvBS was my best educational experience and the best investment in myself. I know that I learned from the best and I am proud to call myself an LvBS graduate.
UCU Business School is the best investment in yourself, your development, and your network that you can make. When I entered the business school, I only knew that I wanted to structure my knowledge, better understand how business works, and find new ideas and solutions that would help me in my future work.
Over the 2 years of studying, I received more than just that. I not only multiplied my knowledge but also found mentors, many like-minded people, looked at my potential and my ideas in a different way, believed in their reality, and found motivation to implement them in life. And all this thanks to the powerful atmosphere that permeates the air at the business school, where everyone is ready to give you constructive feedback, help, and simply inspire you to new achievements. And for this, I will always be grateful to LvBS!
I have diverse experience studying in many universities. In view of this, MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is simply another planet:
UCU Business School – one love!
Learning on the program is not just a list of specified modules. First and foremost, it is an expansion of worldview, awareness of the mission of your business and your own purpose as an entrepreneur, leader, and proactive citizen. Learning at LvBS teaches you to make mistakes, work on yourself, change, and accept challenges. Here you will find like-minded people, partners, and friends. Here you will learn how to turn ideas into action step by step, through analysis, questions, feedback from practitioner teachers, and through the sincere support of your classmates.
The project was born during my study at LvBS. Of course, being still an idea it looked somewhat differently, but studying framed it pointing at important things and leaving what was not needed out… You can be lucky but without knowledge you can lose everything in a moment or be not productive or ineffective. I guess everyone understands education in his/her own way. One can read hundreds of books and make no use of it and another one can without reading any book attend a lecture instead which will later change his/her life. I like the format when I know what to read and a teacher can put it in simple words as usually his/her knowledge is a real experience. This all I received in the school and this is all that’s needed.
Attorney in law, Managing Partner with law firm Grynchuk and Partners (law practice 2004). Practice in supporting investment projects, corporate law, tax disputes, protection of business relations with regulatory authorities. Andriy combines legal practice with social work. He is a member of Lviv Entrepreneurs Committee, Ukraine Bar Association. Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Lviv.
The task of the Academic Council is to become an influential stakeholder in shaping the strategic development path of the program that will best meet the needs of the market and the challenges of time, as well as global trends in business education.
Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship.
Sophia Opatska received her education from Ivan Franko University in Lviv, a degree in International Economic Relations, and defended her thesis work in Management and Human Capital Development.
She studied at Executive Education programs the University of Michigan Business School (USA), IEDC- Bled School of Management (Slovenia), China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and had on-the- job training at InnoSpace Company (Denmark) and at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland).
In 2017, she was on a semester fellowship at Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Sophia Opatska is a founder and supervisor of the Global Shapers project in Lviv and an Advisory Board member at the Emaus Center.
Master in Management in Foreign Economic Activity of Companies at Lviv National Polytechnic University. Studied economics at the University of Coventry (UK). Experience in project management in ‘Nordpraktik’ program (Stockholm, Sweden). After that – initiated several successful projects in Ukraine, including franchising projects. 15 years of practical experience in business, including management and development of family business, launching and management of start-ups. Representation of foreign companies interests in Ukraine.
Executive Director of CfE Accelerator and Managing Partner of Angel One Fund. He holds a Master’s degree in International Economic Relations from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He previously worked as a Director of Corporate Clients at the insurance company “Universalna” and as a Director of the company “Terin”, which developed, launched, and managed a network of restaurants (“A la minute”, “Pasta Mia”) and “Hot Cafe” points of sale for the “OKKO” filling station chain. Later, he worked as a Development Director at the company “Halnaftogaz”. For several years, he worked as a consultant in the field of trade, entertainment, and restaurant businesses. He is a graduate of the Key Executive MBA program at the UCU Business School.
As the CEO of RnD products at Genesis and Headway from 2021 to 2023, he ventured into the exciting world of creating and launching startups for the American market, embracing new challenges and opportunities.
In 2019, he founded Elision, an innovative platform designed for podcast distribution and monetization. With hard work and determination, he managed to attract investments from Flayer1 Ventures. In 2021, Elision’s success caught the attention of Genesis, leading to its acquisition.
Prior to Elision, from 2015 to 2019, he was the founder and CPO of Devlight, a dynamic outsourcing company specializing in mobile app development. Collaborating with leading Ukrainian enterprises, they developed groundbreaking mobile applications for well-known clients such as Nova Poshta, Epicenter, Fishka (OKKO), and Doc.ua. Eventually, he made a successful exit from the company, leaving a lasting impact on the mobile app industry.
Always striving to expand his knowledge and skills, he pursued the Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at LvBS from 2015 to 2016. This experience further fueled his passion for creating unique solutions and exploring new business ventures.
Co-founder and CEO of Platformedia. Publisher of the Internet magazine http://platfor.ma/, Innovation Advisor. He was an editor and a journalist up to 2014. Stanford University JSK Fellow 2015/16.
In July 2016, he graduated from the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford University, where he studied strategic management, entrepreneurship, basics of venture capital, media business, investment, design thinking, disruptive innovation, and the democracy development.
He headed the department of journalistic investigations of the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine from early 2012 till August 2013. Majored in exposing corruption of the state senior officials: tender, financial fraud, offshore schemes, smuggling, and ownership transparency.
After the Dignity Revolution victory participated in the project YanukovychLeaks.org, which was aimed at preserving and providing free access to documents of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that were thrown into the Dnieper River. As a result of the project, more than 20 thousand internal accounting documents of Yanukovych companies were dried up, digitized and posted for open access. The documentary film “Newsroom Mezhyhirya” has been shot about the joint efforts of journalists and their work.
At various times in his career, he worked on materials for Thomson Reuters, Buzzfeed, Ukrainska Pravda (Українська правда), Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Дзеркало тижня), Svidomo (Свідомо) Bureau, “Inter” TV channel.
In 2016, together with his wife Kateryna, created a concept and offered the Center for the Democracy and Rule of Law of Stanford University to establish Ukrainian Emerging Leadership Program, an annual educational program for the new leaders of Ukraine, which, starting from the fall of 2017 will accept three professionals in the field of reforms, law, economic development, and entrepreneurship per annum.
Vice President of Business Development at KM CORE. Bohdan Kupych, a Canadian, has worked in the information technology, telecommunications and technology industries for almost 30 years, 22 of which have been in Ukraine, Russia and CEE. Active in the international business community, was a founding member and the first President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and Board Member for more than 10 years. Today Bohdan is Vice President of Business Development at KM CORE a technology investment company, responsible for business development and a portfolio of investments in IT Services, datacenter, cloud computing, semiconductor design and nanotechnology based in Kyiv, Ukraine. De Novo, a portfolio company is the largest datacenter and cloud computing service provider in Ukraine. Bohdan led the investment process attracting Intel Capital and IFC as minority shareholders.
Previously, was VP Business Development at Sitronics, the largest high-tech company in the CIS and CEE and a key member of the IPO team, successfully listing the company on the London Stock Exchange in 2007. Previously held positions as CEO and VP Business Development at Kvazar-Micro Corp., Chief Marketing Officer at UMC, the leading mobile operator in Ukraine, Country Director at Digital Equipment Corporation, the first major international IT company to enter Ukraine. Previous to moving to Ukraine, Bohdan worked in business development and sales at Digital Equipment of Canada.
Bohdan studied Political Science at York University in Toronto, attended executive programs at INSEAD and Haas Schools of Business, holds a Graduate Diploma in Management and MBA from Athabasca University in Canada. Bohdan is a mentor at several Ukrainian incubators and lectures on innovation and entrepreneurship at Lviv Business School. Board experience includes the advisory board of De Novo and the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Venture Capital Association.
