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Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.

<ul><li>The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.</li>
	<li>You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.</li>
</ul>

Admission

<ul><li>Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.</li>
	<li>Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
	<ul><li>Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.</li>
	</ul></li>
	<li>If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.</li>
	<li>Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place</li>
	<li>If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 3336.</li>
	<li>The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.</li>
</ul>

Enrolment

Application for admission

Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:

<ul><li>Complete the online admission form.</li>
	<li>Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.</li>
	<li>Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
	<ul><li><a href="https://www.bsm.upf.edu/documents/admission-letter-video-upf-bsm-en.pdf" target="_blank">Presentation letter or video</a></li>
		<li>CV</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)</li>
		<li>Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport</li>
		<li>Passport-size photo (jpg format)</li>
	</ul></li>
</ul>Additional documents may be requested in certain cases. 
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.

Complete your application within the next admission rounds:

The postgraduate course is divided into 2 modules that all students must pass: one face-to-face and the other blended.

<ul><li>The first module "Innovation and strategic analysis" is made up of sequential classes with expert teachers in various areas of innovation and entrepreneurship. This part of the course is taught 100% in person.</li>
	<li>The second module "Tools for innovation" is very practical and is carried out through blended teaching; the theoretical concepts are prepared at home and then applied in class. A total of 40 hours of practical group workshops.</li>
</ul>

Innovation and strategic analysis (face-to-face)

Tools for innovation (face-to-face 50% and online 50%)

The information contained in these pages is for information purposes only and may be subject to change in the adaptation of each academic year. The definitive guide will be available to students in the virtual space before the start of each subject.

Note on the Curriculum

<ul><li>Alfons Cornella 
	The Institute of Next and Infonomia Founder. Innovation consultant.</li>
	<li>Xavier Marcet 
	President at LTC Lead to Change (LTC Project), strategic innovation consultancy firm. Bachelor in History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.</li>
	<li>Miquel Martí 
	CEO at Barcelona Tech City. Industrial Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and MBA from ESADE.</li>
	<li>Jordi Mercader Sanjuan 
	CEO of Infinitum Projects. Board Member of Customer Care Technologies, Full of Tradition, Traspacar, Mercaconsult, IDT, IoTip etc.</li>
	<li>Christian Rodriguez Fornos 
	Serial entrepreneur. Founder of BYHOURS, Urban Secretsm Netip Consulting, Chocolate Studio, among others. Board Member at Barcelona Tech City and Hawkers Group. Professor and university mentor on innovation and digital ecosystems.</li>
	<li>Bet Matoses 
	Expert in Service Design and Design Thinking, specialized in the design of brand, product and service strategies with a completely digital approach. Bachelor's Degree in Political Sciences and Administration from Pompeu Fabra University and Degree in Industrial Design from IED.</li>
	<li>Diana Pinos 
	Consultant and trainer in Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at Diana Pinos.</li>
	<li>Miquel Angel Oliva Sans 
	Expert in innovation, business strategy, and organization. Founder and General Director of the FUNDACIÓ PRIVADA PER A la CREATIVACIÓ® (www.fundaciocreativacio.org).</li>
	<li>Marina Vall 
	Usability, accessibility, and user experience (UX) specialist. UX Designer at Adevinta. Has been UX Lead at Accenture Interactive, UX Manager at RocaSalvatella, and Senior UX Designer at FC Barcelona.</li>
</ul>

Collaborating faculty

The program is designed by Susana Domingo, director of the area of entrepreneurship and strategy at UPF-BSM. The faculty is made up of experts in the area of innovation dedicated to consulting, entrepreneurship, new business models, and other relevant and well-known projects within the Barcelona innovation hub and its organizations.

<ul><li>Innovation Consultant</li>
	<li>Innovation Manager</li>
	<li>Service Design Consultant</li>
	<li>Design Thinking Consultant</li>
	<li>Research, Development, and Technological Innovation Agencies</li>
	<li>User Experience Consultant</li>
	<li>Entrepreneurship consultant</li>
	<li>Digital Transformation Consultant</li>
</ul>

Students will be able to count on the Talent UP professional management and development program from the Professional Careers service, a training complement designed to increase the value and positioning of our students in the professional market. This program provides you with tools, knowledge, and resources, through individual career advice, training activities, company events, and career opportunities.

The Postgraduate Course in Innovation and Design Thinking will give you the practical knowledge necessary to implement an innovation and decision-making project in any sector or company. At the end of the program you will have a range of methodologies and tools for entrepreneurship, as well as for the optimization of new processes, products, and services and also for the development of new business models and new user experiences. In addition, you will learn the key points of agile project management and the mechanisms to ensure their success through the Lean Startup.

Average number of years of professional experience

Training in Business and Business Administration

Training in Marketing, Communication, and Social Sciences

The postgraduate program brings together professionals from various academic and professional profiles, whose interest is disruptive or incremental innovation. You can share experiences with professionals with more than 10 years of experience in consulting, marketing, business, change management, and entrepreneurship, among others.

The Postgraduate in Innovation and Design Thinking in blended modality combines online training credits with face-to-face classes to offer you a qualification with the best of both worlds: flexibility and direct interaction with experts and other students. The blended mode will allow you to work on content on innovation and entrepreneurship online, without schedules and at your own pace, thanks to a flexible and dynamic online model, without losing direct contact with your teachers and colleagues through classes and practical workshops in the classroom.

Our school program offers students a face-to-face module first, with classes on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings, and a second blended module that will combine online and face-to-face classes

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Blended Methodology

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Innovation project

Postgraduate Course in Innovation and Design Thinking

Postgrado en Innovación y Design Thinking.

The Postgraduate in Innovation and Design Thinking is an instrumental program with which you will apply the methodological tools necessary for the management of disruptive or incremental innovation and decision-making. The study plan will allow you to develop a strategic response to the emergence of new paradigms and the impact of new technologies on business models and ways of managing organizations. Upon completion, you will be able to apply the necessary innovation techniques for the creation, management, and optimization of experiences, products, and services in your work experience.

You will be trained to know how to manage, from start to finish, an innovation project valid for different business models. The program offers students 40 hours of practical workshops to equip you with the tools of innovation and entrepreneurship that you can apply in the real world immediately.

Learn about current tools

The blended methodology will give you flexibility to combine each subject on entrepreneurship with your work and personal responsibilities, advancing the theoretical content on innovation and entrepreneurship at home, and then applying it in the classroom through dynamic and challenging workshops with expert teachers and other students.

Study at home and practice in class

We will connect you with teachers of the highest academic level and recognized experience in innovation and entrepreneurship who will instruct you in a real and tangible way in the best practices for the management of business models and innovation.

Learn from industry experts

With this course you will obtain a qualification backed by the recognition and academic quality of the UPF, the number 1 university in Spain.

Obtain a prestigious international qualification

Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.

Study at an accredited school

Today, companies require more innovation and entrepreneurship, more flexibility, more speed, and more responsiveness for their customers/users. Adapting to new challenges passes through the application of new methodologies both in large, and small, and for-profit and non-profit organizations. This is why the postgraduate course covers not only Design Thinking, but various knowledge and innovation systems necessary for work experience.

As a student, with this qualification from our school you will acquire an in depth and current vision under the guidance of renowned experts in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, and you will learn to apply business models and new technological and methodological tools that organizations use in their daily management. You will prepare yourself to create an innovative culture based on entrepreneurship, and to lead and implement change in all types of organizations. The main objective of the program is for you to become an agent of value creation for the entire organization and to know how to detect new business opportunities.

The program is structured in 2 large credit modules: the strategic module and the instrumental module.

The first module of the study plan, called “Innovation and strategic analysis”, is taught in person and forms the basis of the course. It will orientate you on the current innovation map at an international level, focusing on providing knowledge about the trends, possibilities, and realities that the field of innovation and entrepreneurship presents today. Concepts such as: innovation in different environments and business models, new business models and technologies, disruptive innovation, innovation ecosystems, and digital transformation in companies, among others, are addressed there.

The second module of the course, called "Tools for innovation", will be the practical part that will prepare students for the work experience. In this module you will learn and apply, during more than 40 hours of practical group workshops and with the support of the teacher, various decision-making systems and innovation tools such as Design Thinking, Service Design (user experience), Lean Startup, and Agile Methodologies. This module is taught in a blended mode, that is, it intersperses face-to-face and online sessions.

The Postgraduate in Innovation and Design Thinking is endorsed by Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Spanish university and the 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally.

The only postgraduate course in innovation and entrepreneurship that combines the 4 main methodologies in innovation: Design Thinking, Service Design, Lean Startup and Agile Methodologies.

If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.

Alumni discounts 

If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.

UPF Employee Discounts

If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).

*Discount not compatible with other scholarships, discounts and reductions.

UPF Partner Latinoamerican Universities Discount

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