
Designing the future economic society through Design × Business × Entrepreneurship
Based on the Graduate School's philosophy and the goal of achieving a "world-class design education", Strategic Design Course aims to cultivate strategic designers who can accurately grasp, conceive, and implement various relationships and directions related to design strategies, develop design researchers who can evaluate and analyze these relationships and directions, nurture innovation leads who can construct methodologies for entrepreneurship and practice based on business knowledge and entrepreneurship and researchers with these specialties.
Students will gain competencies in design strategies that integrate Business and Entrepreneurship, drawing from diverse design expertise in product, environment, and service. There will be a wealth of opportunities to put theory into practice through the courses in partnership with Kyushu University Business School (QBS) and Robert T. Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University (QREC), as well as industry projects across profit and non-profit sectors, providing an environment for collaborative and relevant learning. Through such experiences, students will gain design management skills and develop innovative design strategies for our socio-economic futures.
This course is designed to develop human resources with the following abilities.
・Social implementation of design
・Ability to grasp, conceive, and implement business-related strategies, evaluate and analyze them, and construct methodologies for starting and implementing businesses.