Promoting Design Nationally: Influential Factors

摘要

Design promotion is often carried out on the assumption that doing so will encourage its strategic use. Taking this to a logical conclusion will lead to the question of using design as a way of bolstering and sustaining national competitiveness. Assuming design promotion does play a role in enhancing national competitiveness, it then becomes important to consider how best to frame and manage the most appropriate national design promotion system (Boult, 2006; Hannon, 1993; Park and Chung, 2009; Sung, Song, Park, and Chung, 2007). The research found that, despite wide differences in social and economic situation, most countries tend to adhere to the same design promotion systems, organizations, and activities.