Establishing and Leveraging networks in design education innovation projects

Nick Spencer, Roderick Walden, Benny Leong, Mark Bailey, Mersha Aftab

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    Abstract

    Project networking is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from individuals, groups and organisations external to a project’s core team. The ability to establish and leverage networks is an increasingly important component of developing open innovation practices within many industries. This research examines the strategies and tactics employed by multidisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate students to finding, forming and utilising idea-­supporting networks. Three academic institutions, Northumbria University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and The University of Technology Sydney, brought together a multidisciplinary collection of students and academics to explore hand hygiene solutions in their respective domestic culture and a foreign culture. While each of the student teams aimed to produce design research that uncovered opportunities for social benefit and profit, the project concurrently sought to explore two research questions: 1) what approaches to establishing networks in innovation projects emerge during a globally connected educational programme and 2) what value is leveraged to support project development? This research builds on work about Open Innovation Networks focusing on idea development and reports findings about innovation enhancement and innovation suppression that emerged as a result of distributed digital design research.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDS 78: Proceedings of the 16th International conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE14)
    EditorsErik Bohemia, Arthur Eger, Wouter Eggink, Ahmed Kovacevic, Brian Parkinson, Wessel Wits
    PublisherThe Design Society
    Pages510-515
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Print)9781904670568
    Publication statusPublished - 4 Sept 2014
    Event16th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education - Enschede, The Netherlands
    Duration: 4 Sept 2014 → …
    http://www.iepde.org/epde14/

    Conference

    Conference16th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
    Period4/09/14 → …
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    Keywords

    • Innovation
    • Networked Intelligence
    • Multidisciplinary
    • Project Networks

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