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Florian Weiss

Design management on EU level


Florian Weiss, January 6th, 2010

create_logoAs you may have heard, last year was the European year of Creativity and Innovation. Shortly after New Year’s Eve it might be a good time to look back (and out) which role innovation, design and design management plays on EU level.

There have been several initiatives by the European Commission to support and research on design and design management in recent years.1 & 2 However an European-wide policy to support design was never planned, due to the inconsistency and differences of national design policies.3 Against this background it is interesting to see that there are plans …

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