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TUESDAY, 28 JUNE 2011
UK government admits to including design in its plans for innovation and growth
At the Design for Growth Summit held last week at the Design Council, UK Government Universities and Science Minister David Willetts spoke alongside Jonathan Ive and other design luminaries and said the following words:
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UK government admits to including design in its plans for innovation and growth
| Designed for growth -- but is UK innovation policy designed for protection? |
“Design forms an integral part of the Government’s plans for innovation and growth [Does anyone know what this "integral part" is? The recent Hargreaves Review said at p.66 that, in plain English, (i) we don't understand design, (ii) we can see that it's woefully under-protected and (iii) let's have another review, to see what if any is the relationship between design and innovation, with a view to establishing policy .... zzzzzzzzz] and it will be a prominent feature in our upcoming Research and Innovation strategy. ....”For ACID, Dids Macdonald noted that this was the first time she had heard design and intellectual property mentioned by a Government Minister as a significant objective within the design sector, adding that consideration should be given to ascertaining whether there is support for the creation of a UK Intellectual Property Tsar to match a similar initiative in the USA. Anyone who attended the talk given by the US "Tsar", Victoria Espinel, at the Fordham University International IP Conference at the end of April (noted here) would need no further persuasion. Posted by: Blog Administrator @ 10.47
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