Certificate Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship

Seattle and Portland, Oregon

Bainbridge Graduate Institute offers a unique MBA or Certificate in Sustainable Business. Our innovative program prepares graduates to create and manage successful, dynamic enterprises that build a better world.

The Certificate Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship enables people to explore entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial opportunities in the context of sustainability by studying principles and practices of creativity, growth issues, stages of enterprise development, and what makes an organization climate conducive to entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. 

To prepare students from diverse backgrounds to build enterprises that are financially successful, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. To infuse environmentally and socially responsible business innovation into general business practice by transforming business education.

The world’s major problems can only be solved if we engage business in solving them. Business is the only institution that has the resources, political clout and creativity to address issues such as global warming, structural poverty, species extinction, racism, and resource depletion in time to prevent a worldwide catastrophe.

International Center for Studies in Creativity

Buffalo, New York

On campus and distance Graduate Certificate in Creativity and Change Leadership

On campus and distance MBA in Creative Studies

Undergraduate minor in Creative Studies

The International Center for Studies in Creativity (ICSC) at Buffalo State credentials creativity utilizing a diverse menu of programs that cultivates skills in creative thinking, innovative leadership practices, and problem-solving techniques. 

Igniting creativity  around the world:  Facilitating the recognition of creative thinking as an essential life skill.

Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies,

A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education

Detroit, Michigan

College degree programs, adult education, youth art programs, and community outreach.  CCS is committed to investing in the community. Outreach programs such as Continuing Education classes, school and neighborhood art programs, Center Galleries exhibitions, and the Woodward Lecture Series, contribute to the cultural vitality of Detroit and southeast Michigan by extending benefits of the College to the entire metropolitan area.

The College for Creative Studies nurtures the creativity that is vital to the enrichment of modern culture. The College educates visual artists and designers, knowledgeable in varied fields, who will be leaders in creative professions that shape society and advance economic growth.

Center for Creativity and Innovation

Chicago, Illinois

The Center for Creativity and Innovation teaches innovative strategies and tools for breakthrough thinking. We offer a variety of programming and workshops and customized training and consultation for individuals, teams and organizations.

Introduce contemporary innovative strategies drawn from the latest research on innovation in business. 

The Center offers a rich variety of custom classes, seminars and consulting services related to the field of creativity and innovation in organizations: Embracing change, building powerful teams, and creating a motivating work environment. Showcase renowned speakers and experts in the field. Meeting space and custom facilitation available.

Goodwin College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Creativity Studies Concentration is designed to meet the needs of today's working professionals across many fields. Creativity is integral to competitive advantage in today's fast-paced, dynamic working environment. Organizations that harness and nurture the creative potential of their human resources are leaders in their respective fields. This program provides the most contemporary knowledge and skills needed in this important area.

Our mission is to provide a unique and accessible education to adult learners, traditional students, and organizations who are seeking a quality education and unique solutions to their learning needs. 

Center for Creativity and the Arts

Atlanta, Georgia

The CCA stimulates collaboration, develops partnerships, and carries out projects to support creativity and arts at Emory and beyond.

The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) celebrates, nurtures, and inspires the act of making and studying art, and the intellectual creativity everywhere evident in a vibrant University community.

The Bronx, NY

Masters courses in writing. Undergrad  English majors

The graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs exist as an integrated part of a research-based English department with a lively interest in the relationship between creative writing and the study of literary texts from a variety of critical and theoretical vantage points. We feel that the study of literature and the practice of writing are mutually reinforcing; our core faculty members are both scholars and creative writers.

Entrepreneurial Management

Boston, Massachusetts

Because it is such a complex phenomenon, entrepreneurship must be studied through multiple lenses. Our multidisciplinary faculty focuses their work in four key areas:

Entrepreneurial Leadership & Organization

Emerging Industries & Technologies

Resourcing Entrepreneurship & Growth

Business History & Policy

The Entrepreneurial Management Unit strives to raise the level of academic work in the field of entrepreneurship through a focus on methodological rigor, conceptual depth, and managerial relevance.

Master of Arts in Creative Direction

Pforzheim, Germany

Recognized as a school that has embraced the idea of moving beyond design ability to train students as executives and strategists. These skills equip students to react to the clearly growing demand for such creative managers by companies and non-profits. Ranked as one of the world's best design training centers.

We promote innovation with the objective of being a positive impetus.
We promote the dynamic and innovative power of our tutors and employees to create the right conditions for success.
We have regular contact to companies and integrate these in the academic education and applied research carried out.
Transfer of expertise to meet the real challenges of our society. 

Linden Center for Creativity and Aging

Ithaca, New York

Programs in the performing, visual, literary and media arts; creative arts classes and an intergenerational choir.

The Linden Center for Creativity and Aging exists within the Gerontology Institute of Ithaca College to encourage research, creative expression, model programs, student internships, and public education on creativity in the late stages of the life course.

College of Cultural Science

College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Daejeon, South Korea

The College of Culture and Science is composed of two Departments: School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Graduate School of Culture and Technology. The College was established to produce Creative Global Leaders in the realm of science and technology with a common objective of cultural understanding through mutual cooperation.

The KAIST Business Economics Program desires to train new leaders who possess overall understanding and problem solving abilities in science and technology and business economy.

The KAIST Business Economics Program will raise globally competent leaders who can lead the world’s scientific and technological innovations and changes.

Creativity in the Biosciences

Centre for Creative Technology  hosted by
Innovation North - Faculty of Information

Creativity Project Leeds

Headingley Leeds, UK

Certificate, diploma and Master’s Degree programs in creative enterprise, creative technology and digital imaging and creative visualization

Website for creativity in the biosciences using standard creativity techniques to lead study groups through a creative process to reach solutions to research and other bioscience problems.

MA Creative Enterprise aims to develop the ability of creative specialists to access support mechanisms and to equip themselves with skills, knowledge and abilities in a context that is tailored to the particular needs of students.

Programs in Creative Technology develop creative abilities, exploring and utilising a range of new digital music/media technologies

Digital Imaging & Creative Visualisation exploits the camera's, and hence the photographer's, new versatility   The course will also encourage the development of broad academic, industrial and management skills for digital imaging practitioners who have previously focused predominantly on narrow technical or artistic concerns.

The Centre for Creative Technology’s mission is to support research, development, and practise in the Creative Technology domain.

The concept of creativity in literature and the arts has long been associated with individual genius and divine inspiration. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to address the importance of other more interactive models, and particularly the ways in which creativity might be understood as a social process.

Center for Creativity and Innovation Studies (CCIS)

Taipei, Taiwan

Seeing that innovation and creativity are playing an increasingly important role in the age of knowledge economy and information technology, the Center was therefore established to provide an invigorating academic environment to encourage the research in this field. Programs in Educational Innovation and Creativity in Education, Knowledge and Industrial Innovation, Innovation in Communications and Media, Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Innovation in Cultural and Social Enterprises

The birth of the Center provides an unprecedented, large-scale research base in Taiwan for the purpose of expanding the range and depth of research in innovation and creativity. To this end, the Center is dedicated to providing a wide range of research resources and exerting the influence of innovation and creativity on the society as a whole.

Alden B. Dow Creativity Center

Conferences on creativity

Core values of promoting entrepreneurship by familiarizing students and faculty with creative problem solving and breakthrough industry innovation.

Developing future leaders of a global, free-enterprise society.

Department of Social Studies and Business

Manizales, Colombia

Professionals from different fields of knowledge, applied to education, business, institutions, and organizations that produce goods and services.

Students will be competent in creatively formulating and solving problems and development and implementation of strategies, methods, creative techniques and tools for Innovation

We are a community educator, revitalizing knowledge, engaged with peaceful coexistence and sustainable regional development, which contributes to the formation of ethical people and entrepreneurs, with innovative and critical thinking within a framework of social responsibility

A university recognized for quality, a source of pride for the region.

College of Creative Studies (CCS)

Santa Barbara, California

Eight emphases offered by CCS: art, biology, chemistry and biochemistry, computer science, literature, mathematics, music composition, or physics.  Students complete an 11 course requirement in addition to university requirements in their discipline.  There is also a residency requirement.

Through intense creative work and research projects typically reserved for graduate school, undergraduate students acquire a thorough comprehension of their discipline and are encouraged to begin making original contributions to the field.

The mission of the College of Creative Studies (CCS) is to recruit the most talented and imaginative undergraduates, and provide them with the intellectual environment and advice that allows them to undergo the transition quickly from consumers of knowledge to colleagues in the act of human creativity in the arts and sciences. 

Certificate program in entrepreneurship, leadership and creativity

St. Louis, Missouri

The Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Creativity offers an innovative approach to the increasingly complex and changing business environment. The program includes four major elements: A toolkit of basic principles and skills for the study and practice of entrepreneurship and business startup, Basic grounding in the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship, which focuses on the social, as well as the economic value, of entrepreneurial activity; Analysis of the broader context of entrepreneurship, drawing on perspectives from Arts & Sciences disciplines to examine social, economic, historical, and cultural forces that influence the subject; Multiple and interdisciplinary perspectives for examining creativity, leadership, and innovation as important elements of entrepreneurial thinking and behavior.

A Certificate is an accepted credential that verifies competence and skill acquisition in a particular area of study. A Certificate program helps you enhance or update professional skills. A Certificate insures quality education and skill acquisition in a relatively short time period. A Certificate adds value to the degree you are working on, or the degree you already hold. A Certificate at University College may be earned with 12, 15, 18, 24, or 30 credit units, depending on your chosen Certificate program. 

University Center for Creativity and Innovation

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Students from different programs team up to manage events on major topics.

Aiming at enhancing creativity and innovation in the higher learning institutions for community and national development.

Some of the objectives: To provide a framework for collecting ideas and promoting implementation, To motivate people to utilize their creativity skills, To use creativity and innovation as tools for addressing poverty, To enhance solution discovery to problems such as unemployment and diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria etc. To participate in different research in line with the center’s objectives.

Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development

Athens, Georgia

Creativity application programs, training in the Torrance Tests of Creativity, Camp Invention
Day–long Creativity Camps, Historical Research training, The Challenge Seminar for Creative Scholars, After school enrichment programs, Teacher training opportunities
Parent Sessions on nurturing gifts and talents
Individual mentoring for highly motivated students

The Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development is a service, research, and instructional center concerned with the identification and development of creative potential and with gifted and future studies. Its goals are to investigate, implement, and evaluate techniques for enhancing creative thinking and to facilitate national and international systems that support creative development.

Edward de Bono Institute

Malta

The international MSc programme will be delivered by experts from the four European Universities, covering four main subject areas: Creativity and Idea Generation, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Foresight / Futures Studies. Students will be expected to obtain 120 ECTS over four semesters (two academic years).

The Master of Creativity and Innovation course is designed to be interdisciplinary and innovative in order to assist participants to expand their perception, employ creative skills, develop ideas with their team, sustain a creative climate and manage innovation. It offers methods and processes designed to help identify opportunities and cultivate appropriate skills and attitudes.

University of Malta students enrolled for B.Sc.(Hons)ICT who wish to improve their future prospects in today’s fast-changing world may choose Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as a secondary area of studies.

International M.Sc. in Strategic Innovation and Future Creation develops the skills and knowledge you need to adapt to new context and situations and offer your organisation a successful future.

The aim of the master programme is to create a process to develop and promote imaginative, flexible thought and action by developing a more creative attitude.

Students in the Secondary Area of Studies in Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship will develop skills and attitudes that are required in both public and private organisations that recognise the crucial importance of key competencies, transferable skills and knowledge concerning Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) program

Boston, Massachusetts

Online and regular courses include psychological studies of the scope, limits, and techniques of critical and creative thought, information processing, and conceptual learning in children and young adults; philosophical studies of reasoning, argument, logical thinking, valuing, and judging; and work with cognitive structures and metacognitive techniques for stimulating creativity and critical thought.

The Graduate College of Education (GCE) generates knowledge, fosters engaged learning, promotes social justice, and empowers students, educators, other professionals, and community members through teaching, research, evaluation, and public service. The Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) program at the University of Massachusetts Boston provides its students with knowledge, tools, experience, and support so they can become constructive, reflective agents of change in education, work, social movements, science, and creative arts.

IESE Business School

Barcelona, Spain

Creative Cultures: Making Innovation Work - NYC (US) tap into pockets of innovation in their companies and equip them with strategies on how to stimulate innovation throughout their organizations. Participants will explore the creative imperative of their own business. What is their organization’s need and drive to innovate? How can innovation ensure continued success?

Getting Things Done (Barcelona) (drive strategic change)

IESE´s mission is to create an outstanding learning context for business leaders that direct organizations that are successful in the long-term, develop people around them and contribute to the new challenges that society has to face. 

College of Fine Arts

Sydney, Australia

It offers you the opportunity to experience, better understand and work within a range of creative disciplines, to enhance and strengthen your own creative process and practice.

You will experience online study with students from different creative backgrounds, professional experiences, locations and cultures. The program will explore theoretical and practical connections between a wide range of creative disciplines, offering you valuable individual and collaborative skills and knowledge in line with contemporary cross-disciplinary creative art and design practice.

The aims of the program are to:

• Examine theoretical and practical aspects of creative practice across a range of art
   and design disciplines, and explore the cross-disciplinary creative links between
   these disciplines
• Equip you with individual and collaborative skills and knowledge in communication,
   research, theory and creativity in line with contemporary cross-disciplinary
   creative art and design practice
• Equip you with a high-level of cross-disciplinary creative and  investigative skills
• Provide additional options for students through an online approach to
   learning and teaching

Brain and Creativity Institute

Los Angeles, California

Although the ultimate goals of the Institute’s research feature biomedical and sociocultural applications prominently, all of its projects hinge on the interaction of neurocognitive, sociocultural, and biomedical phenomena. 

Now, recent technological advances in brain imaging and fresh insights into the functioning of the human brain at the level of systems, cells and molecules, provide extraordinary new opportunities for uncovering the neurological underpinnings for a large array of mental functions – from emotion and decision-making to innovation and creativity.

The mission of the Brain and Creativity Institute is to gather new knowledge about the human emotions, decision-making, memory, and communication, from a neurological perspective, and to apply this knowledge to the solution of problems in the biomedical and sociocultural arenas.

Institute for Capitalising on Creativity

St. Andrews Fife, Scotland

This one-year postgraduate degree is designed to introduce students to the cultural and creative industries and the particular organizational and managerial challenges that they pose. The course is ideal for students with strong interests in the cultural and creative industries who wish to gain increased management knowledge and skills to help them understand the business side of the creative endeavour.

The Institute is dedicated to a novel postgraduate programme, research, knowledge transfer and CPD and networking/hub activities including seminars, think tanks and conferences.

The cultural and creative industries in particular have unique characteristics which increase the challenges of management education. An alternative approach is required.

Texas Advertising and Public Relations

Austin, Texas

Master of Arts in Advertising with additional possibilities if students are successful – the Texas Creative program designed to mold talented students into skilled advertising copywriters and art directors; the Texas Media program designed to familiarize students with the art and science of understanding consumer behavior in order to make strategic media decisions; and the Texas Interactive program which focuses on the diffusion of "interactivity" throughout the advertising and communication world.

After being trained in all aspects of advertising from a management perspective, many students will either become Media Planners, Account Executives, Account Planners, Art Directors, Copywriters, or find work in marketing/advertising positions within companies. Students interested in becoming Art Directors or Copywriters have the opportunity to apply to the Department's nationally recognized Texas Creative Program, in which they build a portfolio of work. These creative courses can count as elective courses toward the MA degree.

Creativity Studies

San Francisco, California

The six-course requirement in this certificate program will give students a theoretical and practical understanding of the creative process. Key areas will include significant theoretical models, psychological components, sociological implications, factors that encourage or discourage creativity, and creativity applied in particular domains of knowledge or work settings, such as organizations.

Creativity can be defined as production of an idea or product that is innovative and meaningful. Creativity is about ways we can reach beyond ourselves in our conventional lives, realities, and consciousness, to access deeper ways of knowing and even profound spiritual realizations. There is a vital role for creativity studies in making the most of our self-awareness and furthering our human possibility in an endangered age.

Berlin School of Creative Leadership

Guertelstrasse 29A/30 10247 Berlin, Germany

Not-for-profit organization dedicated to research and leadership education for executives in creative industries such as advertising, design, entertainment, interactive, journalism, media and marketing. the latest thinking and practice in management, marketing, finance and leadership

We're building a unique, global community and invite you to share our vision of a creative CEO in every creative enterprise

The Institute for Applied Creativity

College Station, Texas

Interdisciplinary courses in creativity theory, research, creative thinking and creative problem solving.

The Institute for Applied Creativity promotes the study and application of creativity and innovative thinking across colleges and disciplines of Texas A&M University.

The Institute's research, education and outreach focuses on developing a science of creative learning and an understanding of techniques that unleash the hidden capabilities of the human mind to think creatively and provocatively