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Jugaad vs Gandhian Innovation
Last year I started this blog with a brief piece on the most common models of innovation: market pull, technology push and design driven innovation. Today I would like to add a new missing piece to this scenario: frugal innovation. … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporaneity, Creative Economy, Design Thinking, Emerging Economies
Tagged culture, design, Design Thinking, India, innovation, Mashelkar, middle class, Prahalad
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In the Name of Innovation
What if the current models of innovation are flawed? Yes, this is a bad time to raise the question. At a time when the advantage of new ideas is most needed, it seems ill advised to question the method by … Continue reading
Posted in Technology Push innovation
Tagged art, artistic, design, education, epiphany, humanities, innovation, john, LickingTheFrog, milton, NETcasters, presentation, right-brain
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The User: Let’s talk about it.
I was at the RIBA last Tuesday to attend a workshop organised by KTN Creative Industries on “Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds.” The aim of the workshop was to explore what value does the designer / architect have in … Continue reading
On Design Thinking, part one—From the Empty to the Full
“Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind.” Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason A51 B75 It seems that much of the recent exhortations for business to value design thinking may have a tendency to promote the … Continue reading
A nice surprise.
Yesterday I’ve attended a seminar hosted at the RIBA in London organised by Trends Union. Star of the event was Li Edelkoort renowned trend forecaster and, according to Time magazine, one of the world’s 25 most influential people in fashion. … Continue reading
Let’s Start
A few months ago I was asked to write a short piece on design led innovation for the August edition of the Hot Spots Movement monthly newsletter. I thought that it would be a good piece to start this brand new blog as it presents the background that will facilitate future conversations. Continue reading
Posted in Design Driven Innovation Theories
Tagged design, innovation, knowledge, networks
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