Doctor of Enterprise Business: The University of Manchester

Course description

The Enterprise Doctorate (EntD) is a doctorate in business creation and knowledge transfer and was modeled on the engineering doctorate. It addresses the 'innovation exploitation barrier' highlighted by Sir Gareth Roberts.

The EntD programme is designed to prepare individuals for work at the forefront of knowledge, transferring that knowledge into the marketplace in the form of high added-value goods and services. To achieve this, the course develops:

• Research skills at doctoral level
• Advanced understanding of a specialist area and the ability through research to partake in the further advancement of it
• Advanced understanding of enterprise and its role as a key economic driver
• The ability to evaluate innovation in the context of knowledge transfer and business creation
• The confidence and ability to manage an entrepreneurial business or project, growing it from initiation to a viable and commercial entity
• Generic transferable skills in enterprise, leadership, team building, negotiation, networking and transformational management.

The EntD achieves these objectives by exposing candidates to three principal streams of activity:

• Research work on a knowledge-based problem with commercial potential
• A structured programme of enterprise teaching
• An exercise in business creation and knowledge transfer combining the research and enterprise streams in a business creation exercise, in which the outcome of the research is developed and tested in the market.

Students are enrolled in the School from where the research supervisor is assigned.  The Manchester Enterprise Centre will, however, be responsible for the day-to-day activities of a candidate's studies.

Entry requirements

Academic entry qualification overview: Candidates must hold a Bachelors degree with Honours (to UK standard) of First or Upper Second (2:1) Class. [Please note: Due to variations in the grading structures of international institutions, higher results may be required than stated here].  Professional qualifications other than a Bachelors Degree and/or relevant and appropriate experience may be taken into account for entry to the programme.

English language: If you are from one of the following countries and your first language is English, you will not be required to undertake the IELTS/TOEFL test: UK; Republic of Ireland; Channel Islands; Isle of Man; Gibraltar; Malta; United States of America; Canada (excluding Quebec); Australia; New Zealand; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Grenada; Jamaica; Montserrat; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Kitts & Nevis; Trinidad & Tobago; US Virgin Islands.

You will also be exempt if you are a current student of, OR have graduated from, a UK institution or country where English is the first language (see the above list) within the last five years.

Minimum score required: IELTS 7 or TOEFL 623 (paper-based) / 106 (internet-based)

In exceptional cases, IELTS 6.5 (TOEFL 594 pbt/ 97 ibt) will be considered if you can demonstrate exceptional academic achievement.