Why choose this programme
A unique hybrid approach that will allow students to make a positive impact on our world by obtaining a double degree from a triple-accredited business school and the only design school worldwide focussed on sustainable innovation. This programme was launched because creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need in the future. With the avalanche of new products, services and new technologies coupled with new ways of working, we are going to have to become more creative in order to leverage these changes.
This MSc programme brings together the best of business and design education working with students in a problem and practice-based setting to integrate business and management skills with creativity, design and innovation skills to give you the ability to obtain the skills required to succeed in tomorrow’s global workplace. Working together, business students will learn what it is to work in a creative environment and design students will learn the business skills needed, becoming multi-skilled and meeting the demands of the workplace of the future. This MSc will provide business students with design concepts and courses that will make them stand out on the job market. While students from a design background will be able to understand and grasp business concepts unknown among their peers.
MSc Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Design courses
Introduction classes:
During the last week of August and the first three weeks of September, design students will come to the SKEMA campus to do introductory classes in marketing and finance while business students will be on the SDS campus to do introductory classes in design (drawing, design methodologies, software).
Semester 1 at SKEMA Business School
Required courses
- Eco-system of Innovation, 3 credits
- Building a Digital Business, 3 credits
- New Ventures & Business Plan, 4 credits
- Market Research, 3 credits
- Sustainable Innovation from a Business Perspective, 4 credits
- Finance for New Venture Management, 3 credits
- Effectual Strategic Marketing, 3 credits
Two electives from this list:
- Dreams Hunter Programme, 3 credits
- Ethics, Governance and Entrepeneurship, 3 credits
- Open Innovation, 3 credits
- Research Methods and Critical Thinking, 3 credits
- Business plan competition "Challenge Jeunes Pousses", 3 credits
- Employability & Career 1
Semester 1, total credits: 30 credits
Semester 2 at the Sustainable Design School
- Sustainable Design Futures, Trends and Innovation, 3 credits
- Sustainable Design Innovation and Strategy, 3 credits
- Facilitating Creative Thinking, 3 credits
- Design Thinking and Human Factors, 3 credits
- Sustainable Design Leadership, 3 credits
- Design for Sustainability, 3 credits
- Innovative Design Contextual Research, 3 credits
- Discovery and Insight, 3 credits
Two electives from this list:
- Biomimicry Methodology, 3 credits
- Applied Theory in Sustainability, 3 credits
- Foundations of Sustainable Materials, 3 credits
- Creation of Services, Interfaces and Experiences, 3 credits
- Service and Enterprise, 3 credits
- Pleasure-based Approaches to Service Design, 3 credits
Semester 2, total credits: 30 credits