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MPA Development, Technology and Innovation Policy

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    MPA 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Course Description

This unique Master’s of Public Administration degree is for those interested in a critical understanding of the roles that technologies and innovations can play in local and global development. Embedded in innovation systems thinking, this MPA provides candidates with tools to explore how public policy can help align technologies and innovations to effectively respond to persistent and new societal challenges.

From adapting to climate change to enhancing agricultural productivity and providing water, energy, medicines and education to the billions without access, countries the world over need to harness scientific and technological innovation to transform their economies and improve human wellbeing. However, most countries, developing countries in particular, often have innovation systems that are weak, fragmented and not designed to respond to pressing national and local priorities.

Our Development, Technology and Innovation Policy MPA takes candidates through an experiential learning journey in which they will emerge equipped with the tools, mental models and skills to creatively tackle persistent and emerging development questions in pursuit of vibrant, sustainable, profitable and inclusive economies across the developing world.

Entry Requirements

A minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university in a relevant discipline or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Students are encouraged (but are not required) to have work experience prior to enrolling on this programme.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

Graduates from the Development, Technology and Innovation Policy MPA have gone on to work in international development organisations, government departments, supranational and global agencies, corporate regulatory affairs departments, in advocacy groups, think tanks or consultancy firms, doing legislative, regulatory or policy analysis work. Other graduates proceed to PhD or Doctor of Public Administration (DPA) studies.

Employability

This MPA equips candidates to tackle inequality, vulnerability and exclusion that societies face in many sectors, including access to energy, health, education, infrastructure, water and sanitation and finance.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Development, Technology and Innovation Policy
  • Analytic Methods for Policy
  • Evidence for Decision Making
  • Policy Making
  • Public Administration
  • Foundations in Development, Technology and Innovation Policy

Optional modules

  • Clean Energy and Development
  • Urban Innovation and Policy
  • Emerging Dilemmas in Digital Technology Policy
  • Risk Assessment and Governance
  • Science Funding and Governance
  • MPA Group Project
  • MPA Individual Project
  • Health Innovation and Public Policy
  • Science Diplomacy
  • Climate, Innovation and Sustainability Policy

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