Innovation & Technology Transfer 2/97. Best Practices in Design

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INNOVATION PROGRAMME · MARCH 1997 CONTENTS The Power of Design "Design", remarked Jean­Pierre Raffarin, French minister for SMEs, "is certainly the cheapest innovation manage­ment process. The challenge is to integrate design into product development." He was speaking last January in Paris at the award ceremony of the 1997 European Design Prize, an Innova­tion Programme initiative designed to promote best prac­tices in design, particularly in sectors where it is not usually seen as a source of competitive edge. The experiences of the 64 finalists, brought together to discuss design as a tool for innovation, make fascinating reading (see Dossier, Innovative design from around Europe see page 10 page 10). Between them the finalists manufacture products ranging from paper sacks to welding helmets, so the Prize INNOVATION PROGRAMME NEWS 3­9 certainly showed that design is being successfully adopted Innovation Project Case Study: Coating Processes for SMEs ■ IRC Profile: Bourgogne ■ New Energy in new sectors in a wide variety of ways. This variety also Network Launched ■ New Technology Transfer made generalities impossible to find ­ as in all aspects of Networks ■ Innovation Financing Studies: Venture Capital and Equity Markets innovation, there are no simple rules to using design.

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• Marketing et communication

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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