Taught course
Design Innovation Management
Entry requirements
An honours degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent overseas qualification.
Months of entry
October
Course content
Keen to apply your creativity and big picture thinking to managing design innovation for social change? Nurture the leadership skills and mindset you’ll need to tackle today’s challenges on our MSc Design Innovation Management.
Design is increasingly seen as the engine of innovation, with the potential to create sustainable, meaningful futures through creativity. Organisations need specialists who can manage large-scale processes and projects that address pressing environmental and socio-cultural issues.
You can tailor this master’s towards your interests in sustainability, design innovation management or design driven innovation and entrepreneurship. You’ll dive into up-to-the-minute thinking and research so you're ready to lead the way in building sustainable futures in business, government and communities.
Hands-on practice with tools for progress
Throughout this course, you’ll learn by doing – whether that’s analysing and evaluating current practices or examining contemporary challenges in climate change, global inequity, and entrepreneurship and design innovation management through real-world case studies.
You'll build strong ideation, communication and presentation skills while developing a critical and conceptual mindset. There‘s a focus on collaborative skills too, in cross-cultural and interactive project work.
Learn from thought leaders, creative practitioners, academics and managers, and hear industry insights from collaborators such as Citizens UK, the Design Council, Outlandish, and Pixeled Eggs.
Based in London, the UK’s design and innovation hub, you’ll be in a prime location to network with industry and community partners, and seek opportunities for your projects and dissertation.
Managing design for a career with impact
Design innovation management is a rapidly evolving field, with sustainable futures high on the agenda of organisations worldwide.
Join us to build the skills and mindset you need to work in complex future-making, design leadership, innovation management, strategic design and new service design. You’ll be well placed to apply it to your own venture or organisations of any size.
Why you should study this degree
- Access the latest debates and theories in design and management, sustainability and innovation.
- Develop your strategic, creative and managerial skills through a mix of active learning and project work dealing with real-world issues.
- Engage in collaborative work and projects in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary design-driven teams.
- Build the skillset and mindset needed to engage in projects focused on shaping the future of societies in sustainable ways.
- Hear from creative innovators, industry leaders and sustainability thinkers.
Information for international students
All applicants for admission to Loughborough University must have a qualification in English Language before they can be admitted to any course or programme, whether their first language is English or not. Further information is available on the Loughborough University website.
Fees and funding
Visit the website for funding information.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MSc
- full time12 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
- part time48 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Enquiries
- london@lboro.ac.uk
- Phone
- 020 3818 0777