Giving every student likely to work in, or with, business a wider understanding would be a great step forward. However, I believe that there is an opportunity for some universities to go further, running masters programmes that bring together the different elements of creativity, technology and business… I therefore recommend that centres of excellence be created that specialise in such multidisciplinary programmes encompassing both postgraduate teaching and research.’ Sir George Cox, The Cox Review of Creativity in Business
This report summarises the findings from a fact-finding mission to Europe by a delegation of academics and policy makers in September 2007. The delegation visited leading companies, universities and design studios in The Netherlands, Denmark and Finland. The purpose of the trip was to learn from existing models of multi-disciplinary education and practice and inform the development of new multi-disciplinary courses and collaborative projects in the UK.
