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Doctorate in Design and Technology Applied to Business

The PhD in Design and Technology Applied to Business at UDIT promotes advanced research and knowledge transfer between creativity, technology and business strategy. Aimed at professionals seeking to innovate from design, it integrates academic vision and real application, connecting with the business fabric and digital transformation.


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The essentials

Key Data

All the essential information you need to know about this doctorate.

  • Campus
    Campus Internacional de Tecnología, Innovación y Ciencias Aplicadas
  • Languages
    Spanish, English
  • Modality
    On-campus

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Presentation

The Doctoral Programme in Design and Technology Applied to Business is designed to promote the training of researchers with profiles capable of joining applied research in the field of design and technologies oriented towards business solutions. To this end, the programme provides students with the means and opportunities to enhance their research training in a context of constant social, technological and business change.

Collaboration between academia and industry is a key pillar of this programme, facilitating the transfer of knowledge, methodologies and tools from academia to business.

To this end, the programme presents a single line of research, called Design and Technology Projects, to which different research objectives are associated with the aim of providing the knowledge, skills and competences required for research activity, but also for setting up innovative business projects. The interdisciplinary nature of the programme opens up opportunities in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, sustainable design and digital innovation, where these competences are highly valued.

Graduates will benefit from the programme's strong connection with industry and other academic institutions, facilitating access to employment opportunities, research collaborations and postdoctoral innovation projects.

Participating universities

The Doctoral Programme in Design and Technology Applied to Business is framed within the framework of the existing agreement between the following participating universities:

  • European University of the Atlantic
  • University of Design, Innovation and Technology

Core Competencies

CB11

Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the skills and methods of research related to that field. (The word "field" is replaced by "field" following the application of R.D. 576/2023, of 4 July).

CB12

Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.

CB13

Ability to contribute to the extension of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.

CB14

Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.

CB15

Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.

CB16

Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

CB17

Ability to promote Open Science and Citizen Science, in accordance with article 12 of Organic Law 2/2023, of 22 March, as a way of contributing to the consideration of scientific knowledge as a common good, through the evaluation of transversal activities carried out by the PhD student related to different dimensions of Open Science and Citizen Science, as well as the training acquired in each discipline in the form of micro-credentials or similar. (From the application of R.D. 576/2023, of 4 July).

Capacities and Skills

CA01

Can cope in contexts where there is little specific information.

CA02

Find the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.

CA03

Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.

CA04

Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.

CA05

Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.

CA06

Critique and intellectual defence of solutions.

Organisation

Training activities


The Doctoral Programme in Design and Technology Applied to Business foresees the following training activities:

TRAINING ACTIVITIES

TRAINING ACTIVITY

COURSE/HOURS

CHARACTER

Research Ethics and Academic Honesty

1st / 6 hours

Compulsory/ transversal

Dissemination of research results

2nd / 4 hours

Compulsory/ transversal

Roles and role of peer review in the academic field. Centrality of this value and practice in the academic field / Peer review: roles, values and practices in the academic field

1st TC, 2nd TP / 4 hours

Compulsory / transversal

Workshop on research progress and results

1st and 2nd / 2 hours

Compulsory/ transversal

Tools for information management and retrieval

1st / 8 hours

Compulsory/ transversal

Knowledge transfer models

3rd / 14 hours

Compulsory/ transversal

Presentation of scientific communications at national and international congresses dedicated to Business Administration.

2nd / 10 hours

Compulsory/ cross-disciplinary

Preparation of an article for publication in a prestigious journal.

2nd and subsequent / 25 hours

Compulsory/ cross-disciplinary

Mobility and stays in universities and higher research centres in the research topic.

Preferably 2nd and 3rd year / 720 hours

Optional/ transversal

Composition of the programme's Academic Committee

President/Coordinator: José Luis Olazagoitia (University of Design, Innovation and Technology)


Vice-president / Vice-coordinator: Dr. Emmanuel Soriano Flores (Universidad Europea del Atlántico)


Vice-president / Vice-coordinator: Dr. Eduardo García Villena (Universidad Europea del Atlántico)


Programme Coordinator for the European University of the Atlantic:

Emmanuel Soriano Flores emmanuel.soriano@uneatlantico.es


Access and Admission

Quality

Academic Regulations

Regulations governing Doctoral Studies


Internal Regulations of the School for Doctoral Studies


Regulations for the continuance of doctoral studies


Regulations for the presentation and reading of doctoral theses


Protocol of action for students with specific educational support needs


To access these institutional regulations, please contact Blanca Luna Méndez directly by email: escuela.doctorado@udit.es

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