Executive MBA in Business Innovation
EMBAIN 3rd edition: starting on 23rd June 2025
Prepare yourself and your business for future-proof growth through innovation
The Executive MBA in Business Innovation is a program designed for entrepreneurs, start-up founders, innovation managers, and those seeking a future in venture capital. It is aimed at individuals interested in exploring and learning how to assess the potential of new technologies, develop new business models, and accelerate technology transfer.This MBA acts as a practical bridge between business, science, and research. It combines a solid foundation in General Management - typical of MBA programs - with a fluid Business Innovation edge, exploring deep tech-driven transformation. The program also offers in-depth insights into New Business Creation and the dynamics of Venture Capital.
Deep tech is the set of cutting-edge and disruptive technologies based on scientific discoveries, engineering, physics, and medicine, enabling a new cadre of business model innovation, the most powerful asset for steady growth.
Designed in a flexible part-time format over 2 years, EMBAIN is tailored to fit your personal and professional life. The program includes:
Deep tech is the set of cutting-edge and disruptive technologies based on scientific discoveries, engineering, physics, and medicine, enabling a new cadre of business model innovation, the most powerful asset for steady growth.
- 22 weekends in Milan
- 2 learning weeks in Trieste
- An online platform to interact with your classmates and trainers
Prof. Francesco Venier, Academic Director of the EMBAIN
An accredited MBA
The Executive MBA in Business Innovation is accredited by AMBA – Association of MBAs, the international certifying body which only accredits the leading 2% of the world's business schools with MBA programmes, focusing on impact, employability and learning outcomes.
AMBA Accreditation denotes the highest standard of achievement in postgraduate business education.
In Italy only 4 schools can offer AMBA Accredited MBAs.
AMBA Accreditation denotes the highest standard of achievement in postgraduate business education.
In Italy only 4 schools can offer AMBA Accredited MBAs.
The value of the AMBA Accreditation
For participants - Assurance of quality and return on investment
- You will obtain an MBA recognized worldwide by the AMBA-Association of MBAs.
- You will develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
- You will dynamically leverage skills and competencies to tackle technological change.
- You will adopt the best leadership approach to achieve the most with your company’s team.
For Employers - Acquire future business leaders
- Equip innovation teams with fresh skills to evaluate new techonologies and investments
- Investing in top talents to inject added value into the company and its intangible assets
- Access the MIB, Obloo Ventures, LEF, and Bugnion networks.
- Build a task force of Change agents lead agile transformation processes.
- Bost motivation, engagement and human capital value.
The Environment
What we call digital transformation is a new competitive condition characterized by the need of continuous innovation and agile experimentation of new business.
The pressure to innovate is enormous because tech-based innovation is not a choice, nor a one-time shift to be survived – but a wheel set in motion that will continue to demand constant change, and unrelenting forward-looking leadership.
The pressure to innovate is enormous because tech-based innovation is not a choice, nor a one-time shift to be survived – but a wheel set in motion that will continue to demand constant change, and unrelenting forward-looking leadership.
The Executive MBA in Business Innovation Impact
Having fun with EMBAIN
What you get out
- Cross-fertilization of competencies between business and technology experts
- A new business mindset
- Competencies and tools for implementing innovation successfully
- Relations and access to Partners networks
- Real life projects and new ventures
- Best practices and strategies for your business and career
Joining the Executive MBA in Business Innovation means to:
Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset
A real journey from the Idea to the Prototype
- The Entrepreneurial Management course is the backbone of the program
- Direct application of learnings in team and impact projects
- Implementation of the Business Design Approach
- Support from experienced experts from various fields
- Prototyping in the high-tech workshop MakerSpace
- Presentation of the Prototype to a Venture Capital, ready to invest
Join a world-class Innovation Ecosystem
- MIB Trieste is a world-class university with a focus on entrepreneurship and a network of 3.500 alumni from over 105 countries, and +50 Companies in the Consortium
- Venture Factory opens its deep-tech start up network and partners (universities, research institutions, corporations and venture capital funds)
- DCC Venice is the digital model factory where to speriment the modern 4.0 factory
- Galileo brings the best design thinking minds, to develop a real Product Design Journey
Develop competencies and tools for implementing innovation
- Learn how to leverage IoT, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing for your business.
- Discover the business potential of transformational technologies and their possible impact on your business.
- Understand the agile innovation processes, the venturing sector, design thinking and prototyping.
