An innovation perspective on design: Part 1

Design Issues

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 5-15

  Hobday, Mike ^a   Boddington, Anne ^a   Grantham, Andrew ^a  

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EID: 80053581576     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: 15314790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DESI_a_00101     Document Type: Article

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1. The classic product development studies include K. B. Clark, "The Interaction of Design Hierarchies and Market Concepts in Technological Evolution," Research Policy, 14:5 (1985), 235-51.
2. K. Ulrich, "The Role of Product Architecture in the Manufacturing Firm," Research Policy, 24:3 (1995), 419-40.
3. and C. Y. Baldwin, and K. B. Clark, Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).
4. Design management texts include, for example, R. Cooper, and M. Press, The Design Agenda: a Guide to Successful Design Management (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 1995).
5. and M. Bruce and J. Bessant, Design in Business: Strategic Innovation Through Design (Essex: Pearson Education, 2002).
6. Also see two recent practiceoriented teaching textbooks on design management and strategy K. Best, Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation (Lausanne: AVA/Academia Publishing SA 2006).
7. B. von Stamm, Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity (Chichester, John Wiley and Sons. 2008). These are discussed in Part 2 of this article (forthcoming).
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14. Organizational innovation can include beneficial changes to structure, finance, marketing and distribution, and human resources. However, this paper focuses mainly on technological issues, including R&D and value-enhancing changes to products, services, and processes.
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20. The classic product development studies include K. B. Clark, "The Interaction of Design Hierarchies and Market Concepts in Technological Evolution," Research Policy, 14:5 (1985), 235-51.
21. K. Ulrich, "The Role of Product Architecture in the Manufacturing Firm", Research Policy, 24:3 (1995), 419-40.
22. and C. Y. Baldwin, and K. B. Clark, Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).
23. Design management texts include, for example, R. Cooper, and M. Press, The Design Agenda: a Guide to Successful Design Management (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 1995).
24. and M. Bruce and J. Bessant, Design in Business: Strategic Innovation Through Design (Essex: Pearson Education, 2002).
25. Also see two recent practiceoriented teaching textbooks on design management and strategy K. Best, Design Management: Managing Design Strategy, Process and Implementation (Lausanne: AVA/Academia Publishing SA 2006).
26. B. von Stamm, Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity (Chichester, John Wiley and Sons. 2008). These are discussed in Part 2 of this article (forthcoming).
27. There are many "pockets" of design and new product development management research (e.g., the management of design/new product development and design management in small and médium-sized firms). However, these pockets tend not to feed into mainstream innovation theory, management, or policy.
28. No single agreed-on title is used for this field of study. It began as science and technology policy studies and now overlaps considerably with evolutionary and institutional economics, as well as energy, environmental, management, and organizational studies.
29. This perspective is changing with the OECD Oslo manual, which introduces non-technical and non-R&D innovation measures, such as marketing and organizational innovation. In fact, a recent study shows that design contributes 17% to innovation, compared with only 11% for R&D in the UK, during the period from 2000 to 2007, with innovation accounting for two thirds of UK private sector labor productivity (see, NESTA, The Innovation Index: Measuring the UK's Investment in Innovation and its Effects (London: National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, 2009).
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36. Tether, "Think Piece."
37. In the context of innovation studies, Walsh offers ".a first attempt at analysing the design function from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: economic, sociological and management" (509). This study remains one of the few design studies that offers a social science/innovation perspective. For design management teaching and research, see R. Roy and S. Potter, "The Commercial Impacts of Investment in Design," Design Studies, 14:2 (1993), 171-93.
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68. Ibid 12-3.
69. Ibid 16.
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81. Typically, around 70% of the employed population works for an SME, and SMEs represent 98% of all enterprises.
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