The minor Sustainable Business and Innovation dives into analyzing companies and driving them for sustainable change. By understanding perspectives from Business Management & Organization, Marketing and Consumer Behavior and building on an entrepreneurial mindset you will become a sustainable change marker. This provides you with knowledge needed to tackle the grand challenges that society faces. You will be able to drive change towards a more sustainable future, from a business perspective,  although your skills also are useful outside businesses.

This minor is aimed at students considering continuing their education with The Master’s “Sustainable Business and Innovation” at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), which educates future leaders and change-makers in businesses. 

It includes the courses: Intrapreneurship: Impacting existing organizations (ELS36306) in period 4 (whole day); Sustainable Marketing (MCB34806) in period 5 (Morning); Strategic Change Management and Innovation (BMO32306) in period 5 (Afternoon); Advanced Statistics (MAT20306) in period 6 (Morning); and Responsible Learning Organisations for Sustainability (ELS38306) in period 6 (Afternoon).

The learning outcomes of this minor are given by the learning outcomes of the specified courses and may be summarized as follows.

After successful completion of this minor, students are expected to be able to:

• Apply concepts and methods in entrepreneurship, marketing, organizational change management and Human Resource Management to sustainable development.
• Demonstrate skills relevant for the role of consultant, manager or change agent in organizations
• Evaluate experiments to improve organizational sustainability and responsibility performance

Students are expected to have knowledge of basic theories regarding management and marketing.
To enroll in “Advanced Statistics” (MAT20306), students should have knowledge of basic statistical principles such as confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and linear regressions (one explanatory variable).
Specific entry requirements of courses can be checked by following the links above. 

Textbooks used in the courses are listed in de detailed course descriptions listed above.

In many cases e-book versions of textbooks are available for students, once enrolled, through the Wageningen University Library.

Courses in Wageingen are offered throughout the week Monday-Friday. 

Period 4 has 6 credits and runs for 4 weeks, with usually 1 course of 6 credits.
Peirod 5 and 6 both have 12 credits, run for 8 weeks and usually have one course in the morning and another in the afternoon. 

The detailed schedule of each course is published on TimeEdit, and linked from the course-links given above.  

The annual calendar can be found online.  

Each course has it's own set of assessment methods. This is outlined in the course description linked above.

Upon passing all courses of the minor, the minor is successfully completed.

Written tests of courses can be taken twice each academic year. Once when the course is attended, and once in a subsequent resit period. 
Details on when a written test of a course can be re-taken, are listed in the linked course-descriptions.    

For questions about this minor contact Sjoerd.vleugels@wur.nl.