Zukunftspotential durch Design und RM

Im Bereich Medical Design spielen eine hohe Funktionalität und eine angenehme Handhabung eine grosse Rolle. In den Engineering-Projekten der Erdmann Design AG werden kühne Ideen in den Raum gesetzt die das Klima für Innovationen fördern. „Innovation entsteht aus elementarer Neugier und Lust auf eine bessere Zukunft“, sagt Raimund Erdmann. „Wir beraten mit unseren Feed Forward Methoden Start-up Firmen, Kleinunternehmen wie auch etliche, börsenkotierte, international aktive Unternehmen. Und das für excellentes Industrial Design, Corporate Design und Design Management“ mit den überzeugenden Möglichkeiten des Rapid Manufacturing.Im Bereich Medical Design spielen eine hohe Funktionalität und eine angenehme Handhabung eine grosse Rolle. In den Engineering-Projekten der Erdmann Design AG werden kühne Ideen in den Raum gesetzt die das Klima für Innovationen fördern. „Innovation entsteht aus elementarer Neugier und Lust auf eine bessere Zukunft“, sagt Raimund Erdmann. „Wir beraten mit unseren Feed Forward Methoden Start-up Firmen, Kleinunternehmen wie auch etliche, börsenkotierte, international aktive Unternehmen. Und das für excellentes Industrial Design, Corporate Design und Design Management“ mit den überzeugenden Möglichkeiten des Rapid Manufacturing.

Knowledge Exchange in Intra-Organizational Innovation Communities: The Role of Cognitive and Affective States

Many aspects in the area of designing platforms for intra-organizational innovation communities are not well understood. In this article, we examine the impact of technologically induced psychological factors on knowledge exchange in such communities. Using two experimental pretest-posttest experiments, we find that the implementation of (i) technologically induced self-efficacy (expressed by a ‘hurray’ message) and (ii) technologically induced positive affect (expressed by playing some 30 seconds of rock-‘n’-roll music) in the design of the platform results in an influential increase of knowledge exchange. Importantly, the studies suggest that the integration of technologically induced self-efficacy leads to a higher extent of knowledge exchange than technologically induced positive affect. The implications of these results for future research and practice as well as for the design of a platform for such communities are discussed.

Not for Designers: On the Inadequacies of EU Design Law and How to Fix It

Design rights represent an interesting example of how the EU legislature has successfully regulated an otherwise heterogeneous field of law. Yet this type of protection is not for all. The tools created by EU intervention have been drafted paying much more attention to the industry sector rather than to designers themselves. In particular, modern, digitally based, individual or small-sized, 3D printing, open designers and their needs are largely neglected by such legislation. There is obviously nothing wrong in drafting legal tools around the needs of an industrial sector with an important role in the EU economy, on the contrary, this is a legitimate and good decision of industrial policy. However, good legislation should be fair, balanced, and (technologically) neutral in order to offer suitable solutions to all the players in the market, and all the citizens in the society, without discriminating the smallest or the newest: the cost would be to stifle innovation. The use of printing machinery to manufacture physical objects created digitally thanks to computer programs such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software has been in place for quite a few years, and it is actually the standard in many industrial fields, from aeronautics to home furniture. The change in recent years that has the potential to be a paradigm-shifting factor is a combination between the opularization of such technologies (price, size, usability, quality) and the diffusion of a culture based on access to and reuse of knowledge. We will call this blend Open Design. It is probably still too early, however, to say whether 3D printing will be used in the future to refer to a major event in human history, or instead will be relegated to a lonely Wikipedia entry similarly to ³Betamax² (copyright scholars are familiar with it for other reasons). It is not too early, however, to develop a legal analysis that will hopefully contribute to clarifying the major issues found in current EU design law structure, why many modern open designers will probably find better protection in copyright, and whether they can successfully rely on open licenses to achieve their goals. With regard to the latter point, we will use Creative Commons (CC) licenses to test our hypothesis due to their unique characteristic to be modular, i.e. to have different license elements (clauses) that licensors can choose in order to adapt the license to their own needs.”