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Title
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Sense
and sensitivity: an office design strategy
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Aim
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Paul Warner, Director
of Research and Development, for architects Geoffrey Reid Associates,
takes a fresh look at the Georgian approach to architectural design
and suggests it as a model and inspiration for how companies today
could respond effectively to the pressing social and economic forces
that bear down on all businesses whilst keeping the needs of workers
paramount and making a harmonious contribution to the urban landscape. |
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| Contacts |
Paul Warner, Director
of R&D
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| Address
|
Geoffrey Reid Associates
42 Portland Place
London
W1N 3DG
tel: +44 0207 6314646
email: mailto:gra@gra-l.co.uk |
Date
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November 1999 |
| Keywords |
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Title
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Conference review: Designing Our Future: Growing Your Market
Through Inclusive Design
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Aim
|
- to discuss Inclusive Design
and its growing importance in a society whose population is
ageing
- to illustrate the different
approaches being taken by businesses acknowledging the need
for inclusive design
- to demonstrate the need
to balance social responsibility with commercial necessity,
and to exploit new business opportunity
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| Contacts |
Hannah Curtis
|
| Address |
Design Council
email: hannahc@designcouncil.org.uk |
Date
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29 October 1999 |
| Keywords |
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Title
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Bankers' Attitudes towards Innovation
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Aim
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- to assess bankers' general
attitudes to SMEs requesting funding for innovative new products
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| Contacts |
Project Consultant:
Beatrice Otto
|
| Address |
Catalyst
PO Box 28310
London
SE20 8WH
tel: +44 (0) 207 778 9074
fax: +44 (0) 208 870 056 7749
email: beatrice@courtjester.demon.co.uk
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Date
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September 1998 |
| Keywords |
|
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Title
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Understanding the Business Angel's Investment Decision
|
Aim
|
- to understand the decision
making process of 'business angels' - that is, self-made high-net
worth individuals who invest directly in unquoted companies
in which they have no family connection
- to assess the significance
of design in the business angel's investment decision
|
Contacts
|
Professor Colin Mason,
Amy Rogers |
| Address |
Department of Geography
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
tel: +44 (0) 1703 592217 /
592215
fax: +44 (0) 1703 593295
email: c.m.mason@soton.ac.uk
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/
|
| Date |
November 1995 |
| Keywords |
|
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Title
|
Design, Competitiveness and UK Manufacturing Performance
|
Aim
|
- to investigate the contribution
that design makes to the UK Economy, drawing on the results
of a comprehensive survey of design activity within British
manufacturing industry.
|
Contacts
|
Andrew Sentance,
James Clark |
| Address |
email: andrewsentance@compuserve.com |
| Date |
June 1997 |
| Keywords |
- manufacturing
- economy
- competitiveness
|
|
Title
|
Design Systems and Inward Investment
PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science & Technology)
University of Manchester, UK
|
Aim
|
- to investigate how far and
in what ways design-related infrastructure and institutions
affect inward investment decisions and what might be done to
make the most of the UK's existing strengths and capabilities
both now and in the future.
|
Contacts
|
Project Leaders:
Professor Luke Georghiou; Mr Andrew James; Professor Stan Metcalfe
(with Dr Jeremy Howells)
Research Associate: Silvia Massini |
| Address |
PREST
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
tel: +44 (0) 161-275 5900/5921
fax: +44 (0) 161-273 1123
email: Andrew.James@man.ac.uk
http://les.man.ac.uk/PREST
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| Date |
September 1999 |
| Keywords |
|
|
Title
|
Identifying Markets that Reward Investment in Design (MADRID - MArket Demands that Reward Investment in Design)
|
Aim
|
to identify
- which types of market(s)
are most likely to produce the best commercial returns from
investments in design and product development by UK firms
- the contribution of design
and innovation to product competitiveness in different markets
- the long-term commercial
and other benefits of investment in design and innovation.
|
Contacts
|
Project Leaders:
Dr Robin Roy and Dr Stephen Potter.
Research Associates: Dr Johann Riedel, Mark T. Smith |
| Address |
The Design Innovation
Group
Department of Design and Innovation
Faculty of Technology
The Open University
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
tel: +44 (0) 1908 653970
fax: +44 (0) 1908 654052
email: R.Roy@open.ac.uk S.Potter@open.ac.uk
http://www-tec.open.ac.uk/design/
|
| Date |
September 1997 |
| Keywords |
- investment
- accounting
- effectiveness
- innovation
|
|
Title
|
The
Role of Market Information in the New Product Design Process
|
Aim
|
- to identify model(s) of
good practice in the gathering and use of market information
in the design of successful products; and the management of
tensions arising from the involvement of users in new product
design
- to investigate design as
negotiation
- to consider how the need
to manage the design process can be reconciled with the need
to provide an environment which encourages creativity
|
Contacts
|
Project Leader: Dr
Anne Tomes,
Co-researcher: Professor Peter Armstrong
Research Associate: Dr Caroline Oates |
| Address |
Design and Innovation
Research Unit
Sheffield Hallam University
Psalter Lane Campus
Sheffield
S11 8UZ
tel: +44 (0) 114 225 2661
fax: +44 (0) 114 225 2603
email: a.tomes@shu.ac.uk
http://www.shu.ac.uk/
|
| Date |
August 1997 |
| Keywords |
- New Product Development
- Design Process
- innovation
|
|
Title
|
Accounting, Product Design and R&D
|
Aim
|
- to establish financial and
non-financial indicators of productivity and effectiveness,
including the design component that falls within the scope of
the 'Frascati' definition of R&D
- in the context of New Product
Development (NPD), to examine the interaction between the Management
Accounting function and Design activity
- to support the development
of more precise target costing, functional cost analysis and
product life cycle accounting that would help to achieve the
'best' balance between cost, quality and the competitive features
that are largely determined at the idea generation and design
stages of product development
|
Contacts
|
Bill Nixon, Professor
John Innes |
| Address |
Department of Accountancy
& Business Finance
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
Scotland
tel: +44 (0) 1382 344200
fax: +44 (0) 1382 224419
email: w.a.j.nixon@dundee.ac.uk
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/accountancy
|
| Date |
January 1998 |
| Keywords |
- accounting
- management
- effectiveness
- research & development
- New Product Development
|
|
Title
|
Product Vision: connecting pure research with product applications
|
Aim
|
- to determine what kinds
of people make the connection between the scientific application
and imagined user need. What is the repertoire of knowledge
and experience which enable them to do this?
- to determine how producers
of specialist chemicals search for potential applications and
how utilisers, companies specialising in specialist chemical
applications, organise themselves to search for new materials
and develop new fields of application.
- to investigate the behaviour
and motivation of scientists in NPD in a young high-tech industry
and the factors which influence problem- and target-setting
for NPD programmes.
|
Contacts
|
Project Leader: Dr
Anne Tomes, Sheffield Hallam University
Co-researchers: Professor Peter Armstrong, Keele University
Professor David Dunmur, Southampton University
Research Associate: Dr Rosie Erol, Sheffield Hallam University
Design and Innovation Research
Unit
Sheffield Hallam University
Psalter Lane Campus
Sheffield S11 8UZ
tel: +44 (0) 114 225 2661
fax: +44 (0) 114 225 2603
email: atomes@shu.ac.uk
http://www.shu.ac.uk/
|
| Date |
February 1999 |
| Keywords |
- New Product Development
- innovation
|
|
Title
|
Integrating Design and Organisation
|
Aim
|
- to review and analyse different
literatures to establish whether design tasks can be related
to different approaches to design management
- to explore the general hypothesis
that there must be some goodness of fit between the design task
and the approach to design management adopted by an organisation
|
Contacts
|
Dr Bettina von Stamm,
London Business School
Professor Max Boisot, ESADE, Spain |
| Address |
Bettina von Stamm
email: mailto:%20bvstamm@lbs.ac.uk |
| Date |
September 1996 |
| Keywords |
- management
- effectiveness
- work patterns
|
|
Title
|
The
Contribution of Design to the UK Economy
|
Aim
|
- to investigate the contribution
that design makes to the UK Economy, drawing on the results
of a comprehensive survey of design activity within British
manufacturing industry.
|
Contacts
|
Andrew Sentance,
James Clark |
| Address |
email: andrewsentance@compuserve.com |
| Date |
June 1997 |
| Keywords |
- innovation
- economy
- competitiveness
|
|
Title
|
More
for Less: Design for environmental sustainability
|
Aim
|
A discussion paper
from the Design Council which explores how the effective use of
design can contribute to the environmental sustainability of products
and services, while improving their competitiveness. It focuses
on the drivers for environmental sustainability and the subsequent
competitive advantages, and outlines the strategies and tools for
developing more sustainable products and processes. |
| Date |
May 1998 |
| Keywords |
- sustainable future
- environmental pressures
- competitive advantage
- design for the environment
|
|
Title
|
i-TV:
interactive television
|
|
Title
|
LogiCook, a smart microwave
|
|
Title
|
Expertise and the design of smart products: Persona, the
electronic contraceptive.
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