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The RCA's world-leading research and education helps businesses, entrepreneurs and communities achieve their innovation potential through a wide range of activities, which span collaboration with industry, academic and student enterprise, and creative and executive training opportunities. RCA students benefit from this creative exchange, gaining valuable insights, building connections and testing ideas in real world scenarios.

Student connections with industry

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InnovationRCA

InnovationRCA is the Royal College of Art’s centre for entrepreneurship and commercialisation, providing incubation, IP and business support.

Visa Europe Collab and RCA Design Jam

Collaboration with industry

Our academic experts collaborate closely with industry partners, helping them bring design, creativity and critical thinking to their day-to-day businesses and developing their innovation capabilities.

BlueNose, Terra Carta

Terra Carta Design Lab

Following on from the global success of the inaugural edition, the Royal College of Art (RCA) partnered for a second time with the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Design Lab in 2023/24.

MedTech SuperConnector

Research commercialisation

Our research commericialisation activities provide a platform for transforming research and innovation into real-world opportunities.

Executive education

Executive Education

Online and in person executive masterclasses providing critical business skills, covering topics such as design thinking, creative leadership, entrepreneurship and service design.

Custom Executive Education for the National University of Singapore, 2023

Custom Executive Education

We deliver senior-level custom executive education programmes for business, government, the public sector and universities globally.

CERN Workshop at the RCA

Studio Projects

Our Studio Projects enable companies to explore innovation horizons and blue sky thinking through research led projects undertaken by RCA Master’s and research students.

Designs for Royal College of Art Battersea South Campus

Research centres

The College's research centres apply expertise from science, engineering and technology disciplines to world-leading research in art and design. Our research centres address some of the major challenges facing society today: material science, a healthy ageing society, clean growth, and the future of mobility. We work with partners from around the world to establish new collaborative research partnerships with human-centred, design-led approaches at their heart.

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Design for Good: RCA students collaborate with industry to create solutions for clean water and sanitation

Royal College of Art announces Wendy Tan White MBE as Clore Visiting Professor of Innovation

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