Design for Incubating and Scaling Innovation

Design is a fast changing discipline that is highly responsive to societal, market and economic transformations. Design itself is today acknowledged as a driver for transformation: with a particular reference to service design, scenario design and all participatory design practices, design is actually considered a discipline with a transformational role because of its capacity for systemic thinking, sense making and capacity building. As such, it deals with issues of organisational change, new economies, sustainability, social change and also with setting up or scaling innovations by “empowering people” to invent solutions together. Incubating or scaling innovations is therefore something that has to do with the above-mentioned three main capacities of systemic thinking, sense making and capacity building.