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Strategic Issues for a Design Support Organization: The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation
Author(s) -
Dahlin Torsten,
Svengren Lisbeth
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
design management journal (former series)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1948-7169
pISSN - 1045-7194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1948-7169.1996.tb00493.x
Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , curriculum , resource (disambiguation) , engineering ethics , strategic design , business , engineering management , management , sociology , public relations , engineering , knowledge management , marketing , political science , pedagogy , economics , computer science , computer network , purchasing , law
THE SWEDISH INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FOUNDATION sees itself as a trade and industry—rather than cultural—resource. In this role, as Torsten Dahlin and Lisbeth Svengren explain, it defines a modest but clear and well‐focused agenda. First, it reaches out to small and medium‐size enterprises with a regional program of counseling and design referrals; it nurtures collaboration among designers and inventors. Second, it facilitates design‐related research and curriculum development for schools of business and schools of technology.