Overview
The MSc in MedTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship brings together talented students and professionals from diverse backgrounds across the spectrum of health, engineering, design, business and entrepreneurship, who are committed to creating innovation in health and making the world a healthier place.
The programme builds on King’s and the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE)’s strengths across healthcare, health research, healthcare technologies, design, engineering, business and entrepreneurship to teach both crucial business knowledge and know-how in developing novel medical technologies that address unmet clinical needs.
The course is taught at King's Business School, housed in the historic Bush House and the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM), at the brand new LIHE, an institution committed to advancing MedTech innovations to market. Situated inside our clinical partner St Thomas’ Hospital, our students will benefit from a dynamic network cultivated within LIHE, where critical stakeholders, including MSc students and teachers, experts, spin-outs, SMEs, and multinational partners converge.
With unparalleled access to our National Health Service (NHS) hospitals, our students will develop a deep appreciation of healthcare delivery and quality improvement processes to apply their knowledge for developing novel medical technologies and a fulfilling career as a MedTech entrepreneur, innovator, consultant, advisor or a leader in the medical technology industry.
The MSc is delivered jointly by King’s Business School,the Faculty of Medicine and Life Science’s School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, and the King’s Entrepreneurship Institute.
Key benefits
- The course is a unique combination of core entrepreneurship and innovation (i.e. ‘business’) content with dedicated health-care and MedTech content.
- Unrivalled location in the centre of London. The course is taught within the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) which is dedicated to bringing MedTech innovations to market.
- Students will have hospital access through partnerships with the NHS, so students are able to immerse in real-world healthcare settings shadowing clinicians and other healthcare practitioners. This will help them collaborate and develop innovations and start-up projects based on a deep understanding of real-world medical and patient requirements.
- The course is strongly connected into King’s industry networks and provides a practical route for students and participants to ideate, test, innovate and develop their ideas and launch innovation projects or start-ups in the UK and around the world.
- Students will be offered an option to work on live-projects with the medical-technology industry in the UK, Europe and around the globe.
- Students will gain insight into the latest business knowledge and practice for health innovation and entrepreneurship.
- The course offers a unique opportunity to learn from medical practitioners, industry professionals, innovators, entrepreneurs, and study across business and engineering schools at King’s College London.
- Scholarship opportunities worth up to 50% of tuition fees or £10,000 available for all full-time, in-person postgraduate courses.
Overall, I would recommend this course to anyone interested in engineering, finance, and medicine who sees great potential in the business aspect of the medical technologies field.
Course essentials
The programme builds on King’s and the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE)’s strengths across healthcare, health research, healthcare technologies, design, engineering, business and entrepreneurship to teach both crucial business knowledge and the art and science of developing novel medical technologies that address an unmet clinical need.
With unparalleled access to our NHS hospital, our students will develop a deep appreciation of healthcare delivery and quality improvement processes to apply their knowledge for developing novel medical technologies and a fulfilling career as a MedTech entrepreneur, innovator or a leader in the medical technology industry.
Key Information
Course type:
Master's
Delivery mode:
In person
Study mode:
Full time
Duration:
1 year
Credit value:
180
Application status:
Open
Start date:
September 2026