Design for Europe: Employing Scenarios to Benchmark the Effectiveness of European Design Policy
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 228314
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/14606925.2016.1130362
- Title of journal
- The Design Journal
- Article number
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- First page
- 253
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1460-6925
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619690/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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C - Design
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This article considers design as a driver of innovation and strategic national asset. Its key focus is the design innovation policy landscape in Europe. The research was timely in that it directly connected with key policy agendas in Europe. It was the result of, and funded by, the European Design Innovation Initiative programme. The author was Co-Investigator in ‘DeEP: Design in European Policies’, a €1 million EU funded project which aimed to create an understanding of the impact of design innovation policies by developing frameworks and indicators to evaluate these actions. The paper specifically provides an overview of the policy for a design agenda in Europe, discusses the challenges for its evaluation, offers a proposed approach to macro design innovation policy indicators and presents a scenario based approach that helps to benchmark the relative national performance of design innovation policy. Its original contribution is through the development of a methodological approach that addressed the lack of consistent and comparable data across EU member states to support evaluation of macro-level design policy. The research developed three macro design categories, connected to a rigorously researched optimal set of nine macro design indicators, to better reflect the enabling role of design in innovation and provide nations with an ability to benchmark their relative performance. The research also defined, for the first time, the concept of national design innovation ecosystem as ‘the actors, context(s) and interactions required to support design as an enabler of people centred-innovation’ which has subsequently become a key source for national design policy research. This research directly underpinned the subsequently funded AHRC project ‘Developing an Action Plan for the Strategic Use of Design in the UK’ led by the author (AH/P005934/1; £557,935) undertaken in collaboration with the UK Design Council.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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