丹麦七个最大型的企业（Lego, Danfoss, Nokia, Gumlink, Bang & Olufsen, Novo Nordisk, and Middelfart Sparekasse ）即将启动一个创新概念的课程，叫做“180度学院”。第一批学生明年6月份开课。 

In just a few weeks, seven of the biggest players in Danish business and industry will launch a new innovation and concept initiator study programme called the 180º Academy (”One-Eighty Academy”), with the first group of students starting classes in June 2007。

课程设置由创立者来决定。课程是实践性的，多学科交叉的，根本上由用户驱动的，结合人文主义方法学和设计商业思想。主要是关于人，而不是技术。

It is practical, interdisciplinary and radically user-driven. It combines humanistic methodologies together with design and business thinking. Above all, it is about people, not technology。

180度学院沿用MBA模式，可以满足半工半读的学生的需要。课程内容由世界顶级的设计和创新学校来制订。

The 180º Academy follows the MBA model, where the instruction is planned to meet the needs of part-time students to fit around a student’s job. The course contents have been inspired by some of the world’s leading design and innovation schools, including the Stanford Institute of Design and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

课程主要包括四个部分：

• The programme breaks away from technology driven innovation and concentrates instead on applying ethnographical methodologies for systematic collection of knowledge and data about life patterns, so as to identify needs that companies have not yet uncovered.
• The education is interdisciplinary and trains students to operate in all areas of the innovation process from data collection and needs analysis to design development and development of prototypes and, finally, to commercialisation of the product.
• The programme is practical. Students are not examined or assessed according to academic performance, but rather from practical experience with innovation.
• The education programme has been privately funded and is conceived as supplementary education for employees and managers who already have several years of employment experience.

 相关链接：180º Academy ，Denmark’s largest companies launch user-driven innovation academy