I think that in America we recognize there's a benefit to the intersection of business and technology and many of our leading universities assemble programs that attempt to foster a path between science/technology and management but we are generally late to the party when it comes to understanding design and innovation.
Now, from the Financial Times of March 29, 2009 comes this piece of news:
"Across the world, business people, creative types and technology geeks struggle to understand each other. Their education and training, even much of their work, is carried out in separate silos, with exciting collaborations the exception rather than the rule.
"Now Helsinki’s business school, art college and technology school have come up with a radical plan: a three-way merger to create what they claim will be a unique, integrated seedbed for innovation. The new institution, Aalto University, will offer joint courses later this year and will be open fully at the beginning of 2010 as the flagship project in a national shake-up of higher education."
Among the educators behind this venture is a Professor Ekman who says, "There are certain fields of technology, design and business where we cannot live without each other and this has been true for the last 15 years or so....there will be a real world pay-off in learning through project-based, problem-solving study to respect and communicate and co-operate with professionals who have different mindsets."
You can read the full article here.
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