期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2018
卷号：4
期号：3
页码：209-228
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2018.04.002
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractDesignis often a tacit component of policymaking, and so it is often difficult to pin down its role and contribution to innovation policy. As an area of policy and policy research, design suffers from misconceptions about what it is, and what it offers. We propose the Design Policy Ecosystem as an overarching model that works in two ways: it identifies and categorizes existing policy actions and instruments that are examples of design policy and maps the field of organizations working to support these policies in a given national context. After quantitative data gathering, framework development, and testing with policymakers, experts, and advocates from fourteen European countries, we translated the framework into an online evidence-based resource platform intended to raise awareness about the landscape of design policy across the EU. The framework locates and organizes design policy-related actions in ways that policymakers, intermediaries, innovators, and interested parties can better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their Design Policy Ecosystem, and reveals the most appropriate areas where design could be a lever for development.Highlights•Design policy in Europe is often embedded with innovation policy, and thus it is difficult to identify.•Research on design policy is characterized by many gaps, which we analyze.•Design policy is often a tacit element of innovation policy.•We propose the Design Policy Ecosystem framework as a means to identify embedded design policy actions in a given national context and establish a clear picture of the organizations and government bodies that support design policy in practice.
