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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Ethical Practices to Guide Innovation
This course explored why being an ethical innovator is important in today’s world. Real-life case studies examined how deploying social values can transform unethical practices across different sectors and explored how collaboration is key to creating opportunities for innovation. Topics covered included: creating innovation through a social values mindset; the impact of technology-led innovation in business; methodologies for fostering value-led innovation; leadership and governance.
4 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr Laura Ferrarello
MRes Design Pathway Leader, School of Design,
Royal College of Art
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify ways in which values and technology can influence innovation and transformations in the professional world.
- Analyse the impacts of innovation and identify what ethical issues emerge that can misalign businesses from their values.
- Apply design-led methods and creative thinking to develop a culture of value-led innovation able to transform ethical issues into opportunities.
- Develop holistic and heuristic strategies to tackle ethical issues that are informed by practices in art and design.
Syllabus
Over this course you’ll cover a wide and dynamic range of topics, including:
- Creating innovation through a social values mindset
- The impact of technology-led innovation in business: is technology a positive or negative factor in innovation?
- Methodologies for fostering value-led innovation: design-led strategies for approaching innovation and ethical challenges
- A culture of value-led innovation: exploring leadership and governance
Issued on 1st November 2021
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