Design for Europe : employing scenarios to benchmark the effectiveness of European Design Policy

Evans, Martyn and Chisholm, Richard John (2016) Design for Europe : employing scenarios to benchmark the effectiveness of European Design Policy. The Design Journal, 19 (2). pp. 253-268. ISSN 1460-6925

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Abstract

Effective design innovation policy is increasingly recognized as a driver for competitiveness and prosperity of nations. Policymakers in Europe face a challenge when evaluating the effectiveness of design innovation policies due to a lack of reliable and comparable data. The European Commission has demonstrated its commitment to design through investment in a number of initiatives that seek to place design at the core of national policy agendas. This paper provides an overview of the policy for design agenda in Europe, discusses the challenges of 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. The use of a scenario based approach links available data through a narrative approach to an overall picture of the relative performance of design innovation policy at a national level. While our research has demonstrated that there are no reliable and comprehensive data sets currently available for design across Europe, we conclude with a consideration of the challenges and limitations of a scenario based approach to evaluation design innovation policy at a macro level.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
The Design Journal
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1704
Subjects:
?? design innovation policybenchmarkingscenariospolicy for designcomputer graphics and computer-aided design ??
ID Code:
80459
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Deposited On:
08 Aug 2016 09:24
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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