KIN Education

Education

• Bachelor

  “Engage in organizing for digital innovation”

  Business students at the School of Business and Economics can opt for:

  •  International Business Administration (English) 
  •  Bedrijfskunde (Dutch) 

  Informatics and science students at the sciences faculty can choose:

  • Business Analytics (English) and 
  • Science, Business & Innovation (Dutch) .
    

  Minors:

  • Managing digital innovation
  • E-business and online commerce
  • Sustainability: Management and Innovation

• Master

  “Meet the business challenges of the digital age”

  We offer a one-year academic master's programme on Digital Business & Innovation . Digital technologies are changing businesses. But how do these technologies come about in the first place? What are their consequences for both people and organisations? And how are they disrupting entire industries? The Master’s programme in Digital Business and Innovation aims to answer such questions by enabling students to form a bridge between business and technology. 

• Part-time Master of Science in Business Administration

  
  We also offer a specialization on Digital Business and Innovation in the two-year part-time MSc programme of Business Administration. This is primarily aimed at Dutch professionals who work in knowledge-intensive organizations in the service industry and have the ambition to become a manager or advisor. Both the part-time and full-time specializations have pre-master's programmes.

• PhD Program

  “From student to scholar: A journey into the world of digitalisation”“From student to scholar: A journey into the world of digitalization”

  KIN Research currently comprises of around ten PhD projects in various stages. PhD research is conducted under the Amsterdam Business Research Institute (ABRI) umbrella, where students will also receive their doctoral training at the Graduate School. 

  KIN Research teaches a variety of courses for the graduate school, related to for instance qualitative research methods (including process research methods and computational/digital qualitative methods), PhD proposal writing, and research seminars. 

• Professional Education

  “Change the digital world”

  KIN Research also offers two postgraduate education programs for professionals and executives who already have a master degree.

  • Digital Innovation and Transformation (Dutch): Join this 14 full-day programprogram to gain deep knowledge and a broad perspective on what digital transformation may mean for your organization. Our program helps you navigate the digital landscape and make better decisions
  • Business Analytics & Data Science (Dutch): This is a one-year part-time program containing modules on for instance predictive modeling, data-driven business innovation, and big data infrastructure & technologies. The program roughly consists of equal parts Business Administration, Computer Science, and Mathematics; the three disciplines essential to the field of data science. Target audience includes people responsible for transforming and translating data into actionable insights, as well as those in tactical and strategic management with an interest in this field.
  • Data-Driven steering in public sector( Dutch)
  • Managing AI WISEly (English): In this program, we use case studies from our state-of-the-art research on how AI technologies are developed and used, through which you will gain a deep understanding of how AI technologies can be managed and what you can do to responsibly employ AI’s capabilities while preventing potential organizational risks and pitfalls. 
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