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Grow your innovation capabilities without stopping your career.

The demand for innovation in the workplace and the community has never been higher. As we face a range of challenges, an increasingly volatile and uncertain world, and complex networks and changing demands, we need skilled innovators who can draw on a diverse range of disciplines to deliver new solutions designed for this new world.

The Design Factory NZ has bespoke postgraduate qualifications designed to grow your innovation capabilities and to position you as a leader of change in the future.

Courses

Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation

Our Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation is designed for those who want to grow their innovation capabilities without putting their careers on hold.

This semester-length qualification provides you with an introduction to transdisciplinary research and innovation, focusing on applying this learning and assessing a real-world challenge. You are supported by both an academic and industry supervisor and will learn a range of innovation skills centred on an ability to combine insights and perspectives from diverse disciplines and plan innovation projects that are best fit for all involved.

The learning involves:

Access to national and international experts in innovation and problem-solving
Joining a local Community of Practitioners for support, learning and networking
Monthly Community of Practice days, with lectures, workshops, seminars and coaching
Learning the critical reframing of a real-world problem, with the goal of designing a best-fit solution

Applications are assessed case-by-case and open to potential students based on previous work and academic experience. Find out more by clicking the programme page below.

Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation

One semester

Level 8

$3,670*

Hamilton City Campus, Hamilton Rotokauri Campus

Jul 2024

This programme is for those who want to build on their enterprise experience, with flexibility in time or place of study. Students will gain skills and expertise highly valued in a workplace or research environment, including developing an understanding of the transdisciplinary research approach and the critical reframing of a real-world problem.

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Master of Applied Innovation

Our Master of Applied Innovation takes the research and frameworks created in the postgraduate certificate into the real world, working to deliver a high-fidelity, practical solution to their complex challenge.

This 18-month course offers flexibility, with you working at least three days a week on your challenge in the workforce, supported by world-class industry coaches and academic supervisors from across Wintec | Te Pūkenga.

Drawing from a transdisciplinary approach, this qualification is holistic in scope, allowing you to develop an innovation toolkit and practice that is varied, rigorous and comprehensive. You are coached to become an innovation practitioner and are well-positioned to lead innovation projects post-study.

The learning involves:

Access to national and international experts in innovation and problem-solving
Joining a local Community of Practitioners for support, learning and networking
Monthly Community of Practice days, with lectures, workshops, seminars and coaching
Learning the critical reframing of a real-world problem, with the goal of designing a best-fit solution

Find out more, including entry criteria and semester dates, by clicking the course page below.

Master of Applied Innovation

Students in this programme will advance their ability to innovate in the workplace allowing them to immerse themselves into the enterprise environment and gain a postgraduate qualification whilst in employment. This programme offers an accessible academic and professional career development opportunity in research and innovation at postgraduate level, relevant to all disciplines.

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