To be able to find innovative solutions for a sustainable development, experts from different fields need to collaborate. On this two-year master’s programme, you bring your competence and knowledge of business into a collaborative creative environment. You study together with students from business as well as design and engineering to find the most innovative solutions, both from theoretical and practical perspectives.
We need to collaborate across different fields of competence to tackle the challenges that humankind is facing regarding environmental and social issues. Having your profession in business whilst you have an in-depth knowledge of other fields will be an important factor in the work towards a sustainable development. This master’s programme in Innovation through Business, Engineering and Design is unique in that way since it enables you to collaborate with students from the programme’s three different specialisations; business, engineering and design. This means that you get several perspectives on the different projects and assignments that are carried out during the course of the programme, both from theoretical and practical perspectives. By learning how to collaborate with people who have different competences and experiences you become attractive on the labour market due to your unique multidisciplinary competence.
As a student of the business discipline, you can further your knowledge in a large number of academic subjects such as marketing, consumer behavior and consumption models, supply chains and circular economies, innovative business models and frugal innovation mindsets. Some other subjects you can focus on are targeting and costing, product development and business canvases, entrepreneurship, civic leadership, and social enterprises. These aspects are developed in a unique way through an integration of academic subjects such as systems engineering and design thinking, thereby giving the innovation process a complete and holistic framing.
In order for the programme to give you the knowledge on how to meet the challenges humanity faces concerning environmental and social issues, you will also work together with the trade and industry during your studies. We have a particularly close partnership with IKEA and Södra, through a strategic collaboration called ‘The Bridge’. This collaboration is based on the UN’s global goals with focus on sustainability, innovation and optimal management of local natural and human resources. We see that this type of collaboration is necessary to be able to handle sustainable societal transformation to ensure a secure today and tomorrow, serving as a good example of how academy and industry can collaborate for a sustainable development.
