MA Innovation Management

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 the vibrant Central Saint Martins College, a dedicated College of Arts and Design, 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. Our alumni are equipped to be highly adaptable in the job market.  Their post study employment, business and enterprise work spans a spectrum of roles in the innovation field from strategists to creative design and marketing.

MA Innovation Management is situated within the CSM Culture and Enterprise Programme. All courses within Culture & Enterprise identify common ground in addressing how arts, culture and enterprise are mediated. The Culture & Enterprise Programme sits at the heart of an institution surrounded by makers, and our courses explore how they work with these creative practitioners, how they might manage, present, collaborate and broker relationships within this creative community. This puts us in special position as opposed to perhaps other humanities based, business-based or arts management-based institutions. We find common ground for creative strategies through the spectrum of culture, arts, enterprise and social purpose and change.

We are committed to developing ethical innovation practices. To achieve this, we are working to embed UAL's Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into the course.