Research project, ECAL 2020
in PROJECTS / R&D RESEARCH PROJECTS (R&D)
Design Management for Start-ups
The research project Design management for start-ups focused on the integration of design in innovation processes. Its objective was to promote the use of design within mainly technological start-ups and to create tools and methodologies to foster collaboration between designers and entrepreneurs. The approach took into account all design practices (industrial design, visual communication, media & interaction design, strategic design) and relied on the ecosystem of technological start-ups in the region. The study allowed for reflection at four levels:
The project enabled the development of a set of specific design management tools adapted to collaborations between technology start-ups and designers and to gather them on the website www.designstarterkit.ch
Main applicants
ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne
Luc Bergeron (project leader)
Research team
Daphna Glaubert (researcher)
Noemie Délèze (Ra&D collaborator), HEIG-VD
Design team
Joelle Aeschlimann (interaction designer)
Lionel Tardy (web developer)
Calypso Mahieu (photographer)
Partners
Néode
The Ark
Innovaud
Fri Up
Period
September 2018 - september 2020
Associated project
www.innovationbydesignchallenge.ch
Dissemination
Publication
Daphna Glaubert, Luc Bergeron, Le design comme accélérateur de projets technologiques en phase d’incubation précoce, Sciences du Design, 2020
Supported by
ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne
Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)
Product diagnostic tool. © ECAL/Calypso Mahieu
Design Project Starter Kit tools page. © ECAL/Joelle Aeschlimann