Design Innovation Project

The module will provide learners with the mind-set, solutions, and tools to build teams that will drive design and innovation in their organisations. Increasingly, design and innovation is distributed, global, and highly collaborative. The module project will encompass the entire design and innovation development process, from vision and formation, through the test and validation of new business opportunities. While working in teams, each learner will research and present an individual minor thesis based on their functional responsibilities within the team. This module is modelled on the Stanford ME310 Module which is now delivered in a growing number of third-level Institutes and Universities across the world.

1. Identify real-world problems and develop innovative and sustainable solutions from concept to implementation.

2. Work in multi-disciplinary teams on challenging projects.

3. Deliver high quality prototypes/artefacts of products and/or services.

4. Identify potential market and societal benefits of the proposed solutions

5. Become a leader and champion of design and innovation in their organization.

6. Communicate their proposed solutions to academics, practitioners and the general public.

7. Reflect on their individual contribution and present their research and solution in an individual thesis.

8. Describe how their individual research and contribution to the development of a product/service meets the ethical criteria of being "Responsible Innovation".