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：249-274
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2018.06.001
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractThere is a vast body of research exploring the myriad ways design can contribute to business success. For example, businesses seeing to generate new products, services, processes, models, and strategies as part of their efforts to innovate often turn to design for support and leverage. But how clearly have scholars defined the relationship between design and innovation? Is it even possible to explain the connection between the two? In this article, we investigate whether the design literature published over the past thirty years contains an answer to these questions. We organize our findings into clusters describing the key roles that design activity plays in the innovation process, how designers personally play a part, and the internal and external factors that contribute to design/innovation associations. We also introduce the notion that design language—be it visual, methodological, or procedural—has become not only an organizing principle that supports innovative initiatives, it has become the language of innovation itself.Highlights•Design is understood and used in various ways.•Design plays different roles in the innovation process.•The roles design plays in innovation converged to be the language of innovation.•According to the definition attached to design, it is located and used at different stages of the innovation process.
关键词：Design;Innovation;Design studies;Roles of design;Literature review
