Research for innovation represents today the industry’s indispensable tool to hinder the international concurrence through out new design solutions aimed to optimize the know-how and the skills of each single firm. This paper intends to demonstrate that some strategies which belong to the design discipline can be applied to the industrial system to produce innovation in terms of new processes, products and materials, crossing different expertises and areas of application to generate spin-off. Currently, more and more research and design teams are composed by people with different nationalities, who often have different cultural backgrounds from each other. The professional collaborations, acquisitions, joint ventures are proliferating mainly because the technological contents and the environmental requirements have become so complex that no company can have in itself the skills and resources to innovate. Innovation today is no longer only a enterprise innovation but an innovative result born from a network of relationships and cooperation that comes from the outside and even through the organisation of multidisciplinary working groups, capable of contributing with other points of view, to the growth of a new manufacturing reality. Also, strategic design methodologies can be used to improve the efficacy of the education system reproducing with students the same dynamics and structures that characterized the professional and industrial fields. This approach has the privilege to bring close the students to the real needs and rhythms of working with the everyday reality of professional firms, companies and research centres that very often use this innovative formula involving different kind of people to define in a short time new project scenarios. It can also offer, through the designer’s proposals involved in the activities, a quick and diversified response to a market in continuous transition.

Creative Network Systems for Innovation

DOMINONI, ANNALISA
2009-01-01

Abstract

Research for innovation represents today the industry’s indispensable tool to hinder the international concurrence through out new design solutions aimed to optimize the know-how and the skills of each single firm. This paper intends to demonstrate that some strategies which belong to the design discipline can be applied to the industrial system to produce innovation in terms of new processes, products and materials, crossing different expertises and areas of application to generate spin-off. Currently, more and more research and design teams are composed by people with different nationalities, who often have different cultural backgrounds from each other. The professional collaborations, acquisitions, joint ventures are proliferating mainly because the technological contents and the environmental requirements have become so complex that no company can have in itself the skills and resources to innovate. Innovation today is no longer only a enterprise innovation but an innovative result born from a network of relationships and cooperation that comes from the outside and even through the organisation of multidisciplinary working groups, capable of contributing with other points of view, to the growth of a new manufacturing reality. Also, strategic design methodologies can be used to improve the efficacy of the education system reproducing with students the same dynamics and structures that characterized the professional and industrial fields. This approach has the privilege to bring close the students to the real needs and rhythms of working with the everyday reality of professional firms, companies and research centres that very often use this innovative formula involving different kind of people to define in a short time new project scenarios. It can also offer, through the designer’s proposals involved in the activities, a quick and diversified response to a market in continuous transition.
2009
Proceedings of INTED2009 Conference
9788461275786
design research; open innovation; strategic design
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