Lars,
Below you'll find a link to an interesting article by Dr. Bettina von
Stamm on the interplay between design and innovation.
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/Business-Essentials/Innovation/
With best wishes,
Anja.
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Dr. Anja Maier
University of Cambridge; Engineering Design Centre
http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/people/am521.html
Lars Albinsson wrote:
> Dear all,
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> A simple (and probably suicidely naïve) question: what is the difference (if
> there is one) between design and innovation?
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> I suppose I am not the first one to ask this, but I haven’t found someone
> specifically addressing the question, even though there appears to be
> debates on the issue…
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> My hypothesis (based on Lakoff and Krippendorff) is that there is a
> difference in that innovation is associated with the challenge or alteration
> of some peoples “prototypes” (in the Roch sense), while design may or may
> not do this. That is; design is more general than innovation. (and the step
> from invention to innovation would be the process of getting people to
> accept that alteration.)
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> Or does this just prove my pan-galactic ignorance?
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> /Lars
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