Technology and Innovation

Overview

The world needs people who can understand complex global problems and mobilise the power of technology and people to create innovative products and services that deliver measurable impact. UCL’s Technology and Innovation BSc delivers a new approach to business education that integrates key principles and practices from engineering and art and design to help you develop complex practice-based skills like creativity, critical thinking and collaboration.

Programme Description

Technology is transforming business and society. Advances in technology are driving new products and services, creating new industries, and helping address some of society's most important challenges. The speed and scale of technological innovations means that we can expect to experience more progress in the next decade than in the past 100 years combined.

But technology on its own isn't enough. Understanding people is at the heart of developing successful products and services. At the heart of building effective organisations and teams. And at the heart of driving social change. But people are complex and unpredictable. Understanding what motivates them and why they behave as they do is hard.

UCL's Technology and Innovation BSc is designed to develop the next generation of technology pioneers - people who believe that innovation is essential to society's well-being and economic growth, people who can deliver measurable impact, people who can drive change.

The programme delivers a very different type of business education. It focuses on helping you build both deep technology and design skills and advanced social and emotional skills. It integrates key ideas, ways of thinking, habits of mind and practices from a world-class business school education, a world-class engineering school education, and a world-class art and design school education.

Developing complex skills like creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration is hard. It takes time. It takes practice. And the discipline and dedication to iterate and improve your work.

This hands-on, studio-based programme is designed to help you develop as a creative practitioner. It provides exceptional individuals with a high-performance, high-trust environment to accelerate your development and prepare yourself for demanding roles in world-class organisations addressing world-scale problems.

Degree Benefits

UCL’s Technology and Innovation BSc views business as a practice-based discipline built on discovery, making and change.

The whole programme has been explicitly designed to help you develop complex, high-value skills that will enable you to be significantly more productive and effective in whatever role you take on after you graduate. And deliver measurable impact from day one.

Like an athlete preparing for the Olympics, you will be trained and coached to get systematically better at these critical skills during your three years at UCL. And complete a carefully curated series of projects and experiences that reinforce key ideas and provide multiple opportunities to put your new skills into practice.
The pace of change in business means that organisations and individuals need to be able to respond and adapt quickly.

McKinsey have identified 'intentional learning' as the most fundamental skill for professionals to cultivate in the coming decades noting that "People who have mastered the mindsets and skills of effective learning can grow faster than their peers and gain more of the benefits from all the learning opportunities that come their way".

You will be trained and coached in intentional learning and you will practice these critical mindsets and skills throughout the programme. These capabilities will enable you to rapidly develop the knowledge and skills you need to work in different industries and functional areas.