This paper describes a specific tool (Design_Hub) aimed to create a permanent meeting place to exchange knowledge and generate innovative projects by using sustainable technologies, supported by both University and Entrepreneurial Associations as trust generators (Fukuyama 1996). Design_Hub represents the systematization of a two-year experience and concrete experimentations (DAC and DAC_Tool) based upon the action-research framework and the mechanism of the design knowledge and technology transfer (Tasch A.F. 1995) through the physical transfer of innovation agents (newly graduate designers) into companies. Design_Hub aims to create an open source creative arena for designers and companies, low cost and low impact, a place to generate collective intelligence (Lévy 1996), changing the relation between young designers and Italian SME's and generating new scenarios of cooperation.
Design_Hub. A Social Innovation Arena for SMEs' Design Innovation
ARQUILLA, VENANZIO;
2008-01-01
Abstract
This paper describes a specific tool (Design_Hub) aimed to create a permanent meeting place to exchange knowledge and generate innovative projects by using sustainable technologies, supported by both University and Entrepreneurial Associations as trust generators (Fukuyama 1996). Design_Hub represents the systematization of a two-year experience and concrete experimentations (DAC and DAC_Tool) based upon the action-research framework and the mechanism of the design knowledge and technology transfer (Tasch A.F. 1995) through the physical transfer of innovation agents (newly graduate designers) into companies. Design_Hub aims to create an open source creative arena for designers and companies, low cost and low impact, a place to generate collective intelligence (Lévy 1996), changing the relation between young designers and Italian SME's and generating new scenarios of cooperation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
