MA Innovation Management

University of the Arts London

On MA Innovation Management (MAIM) you will learn how to develop the creative competencies and strategies to drive innovation and change in and across your chosen fields. Located within Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, the course positions critical creative practice in innovation management with this intersection of practice offering an alternative to conventional business school innovation and management courses. We attract applicants with a strong desire to pursue original ideas, initiatives, alternative futures and innovative careers. Designed to meet the increasing industry demand for innovation managers who can prioritise regenerative (sustainable) outcomes and societal thriving over narrower interests and preoccupations with economic value or technology, this course explores innovation management as a dynamic process that unfolds over time through continued creative interactions and collective experimentation, requiring imagination, care and empathy as much as analysis, strategy and formal frameworks. You will learn key skills in project management, digital innovation, creative and critical thinking, innovation research, collaboration and teamwork, that will enable you to succeed in your chosen innovation related future role.Compared to mainstream approaches to Innovation Management as a field of study and professional practice, this course addresses a wider range of concerns relating to society, culture, ecology, technology, business and creativity. You will learn how to generate creative strategies for change, with the aim of bringing to life (or creating the foundations for) products, services, systems, organisations, cultures and societies that are inclusive and regenerative. You will explore how innovation and technology can be leveraged to transform organisations into agents of social transformation and how to work critically and dynamically across multiple disciplines, organisational types that considers human and nonhuman (technological and biological) intelligences and impacts.MA Innovation Management prepares students to thrive at the intersection of business and creativity, theory and practice, analysis and imagination, and to leverage their skills and leadership to drive social value as well as positive organisational and societal change.