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The Innovation Dimension: Designing in a Broader Context

This paper reviews the innovation and design literature and seeks to understand the considerable overlap between these two fields. It goes on to challenge the current models for connections between design and innovation and presents new approaches.

These are based in practice based research and experience drawn from a collaboration with Manchester Business School, and the management schools of Liverpool and Lancaster along with the design research Lab ImaginationLancaster. This collaboration was a £1m ERDF project; IDEAS (innovation, design Entrepreneurship and Science).

The insight into the relationship between Innovation and Design developed in this paper has been utilised in the successful funding of 3 significant projects. Catylist, a £1.9 million EPSRC cross disciplinary innovation centre in Lancaster University looking at community-led innovation in local communities, PROUD a €3.2 million EU (INTEREG) funded project looking at innovative knowledge exchange through co-design and The Creative Exchange, a £4 million knowledge exchange centre looking at promoting innovation in the creative industries concentrating specifically on personalisation and citizen-led innovation.