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The Design Economy: new Design Council evidence on the value of design
This year is Design Council’s 70th anniversary, and fittingly, yesterday the government’s Global Investment Conference shone a spotlight on design, creativity and innovation. Prominent international design and innovation figures...
Global Investment Conference event to celebrate the best in British design
Chief Executive John Mathers and former Chairman Sir John Sorrell CBE on this week’s Global Investment Conference and the opportunities it affords Design Council to promote design to a global business audience. The Global...
The future of the auto industry: Three experts place their bets - Part I
Our Leading Business by Design: Automotive Sector report – an in-depth analysis of strategic design’s impact on the passenger automotive sector – is now available on Amazon. The research investigated several forces affecting the...
Tackling business issues through design: finding new routes to old problems
In an increasingly design-savvy world, it is remarkable how little the UK’s world-leading design services are exploited by UK businesses. Talk to many small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and it becomes clear that their view...
New survey shows UK as a leader in strategic design and innovation
The European Commission has now published its InnoBarometer, its annual survey into business innovation. For the first time, it has included a question on the use of design. Some 14,118 companies were surveyed in February, from...
Can creativity and imagination overcome the engineering skills gap?
Dr Andy Bell is a researcher in the Design and Prototyping Group, which is part of the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing. The AMRC is one of seven established manufacturing and...
Will the Internet of Things set family life back 100 years?
This article is part of The Design Economy series. The Internet is disrupting the established rules that control the way we live our lives. From business, to entertainment, to government, we have already experienced the...
Win a ten-week product accelerator course
Design Council and MedCity have today launched a competition to win a ten-week accelerator coaching course for medtech entrepreneurs to develop effective, usable and commercially successful health technologies that can support...
Design in the Public Sector: Cambridgeshire Council’s insights – Part I
Design Council’s Design in the Public Sector programme increases the knowledge and use of strategic design skills across local authority public services, exposing teams to new ways of working and enabling them to do something...
Falling A-level numbers could create a critical shortage of designers
Data released last week shows that take-up of A-level Design and Technology courses has dropped for the fourth year in a row. The number of students entered for D&T A-levels in 2015 is down 3.19 per cent on 2014, the fifth...
Design in the Public Sector: An insider’s view – Part III
Devon County Council is part of the latest cohort in the Design in the Public Sector programme hoping to learn how to better engage staff and find innovative new ways of working. Having completed the initial two-day intensive...
Spark: overheard in 50 words
Marion Gillet, Product Development Manager of our product innovation fund Spark, shares some of the stand-out, snappy observations she’s overheard and scribbled down over the course of the programme. Communication I have more...