TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspectives on innovation
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2019
AU - Isaksson, Ola
AU - Eckert, Claudia
AU - Borgue, Olivia
AU - Hallstedt, Sophie I.
AU - Hein, Andreas Makoto
AU - Gericke, Killian
AU - Panarotto, Massimo
AU - Reich, Yoram
AU - Öhrwall Rönnbäck, Anna B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Design Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The aim of the paper is to foster a discussion in the engineering design community about its understanding of the innovation phenomena and the unique contribution that comes from engineering design. The paper reports on the dialouge originating from a series of workshops with participants from different backgrounds in engineering design, systems engineering, industrial design psychology and business. Definitions of innovation are revisited as used in business, management and engineering design contexts. The role of innovation is then discussed related to product development from (i) the management perspective, (ii) a systems architecture perspective and (iii) in relation to sustainable development as one driver of innovation. It is argued that engineering design has a central role in how to realise the novelty aspect of innovation and often plays a critical role in maturing these into the valuable products, and there is a need to articulate the role of engineering design in innovation to better resonate with the business and management research.
AB - The aim of the paper is to foster a discussion in the engineering design community about its understanding of the innovation phenomena and the unique contribution that comes from engineering design. The paper reports on the dialouge originating from a series of workshops with participants from different backgrounds in engineering design, systems engineering, industrial design psychology and business. Definitions of innovation are revisited as used in business, management and engineering design contexts. The role of innovation is then discussed related to product development from (i) the management perspective, (ii) a systems architecture perspective and (iii) in relation to sustainable development as one driver of innovation. It is argued that engineering design has a central role in how to realise the novelty aspect of innovation and often plays a critical role in maturing these into the valuable products, and there is a need to articulate the role of engineering design in innovation to better resonate with the business and management research.
KW - Design engineering
KW - Design management
KW - Design process
KW - Innovation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079789618&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/dsi.2019.129
DO - 10.1017/dsi.2019.129
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85079789618
SN - 2220-4334
VL - 2019-August
SP - 1235
EP - 1244
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED
Y2 - 5 August 2019 through 8 August 2019
ER -
