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Industrial Design, National Competitiveness and the Emergence of Design-Centred Economic Policy

In: Industrial Design, Competition and Globalization

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  • John R. Bryson

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A national economy consists of a complex array of private and public sector organizations supported by physical infrastructure and a set of policy and legal frameworks and legislation. The infrastructure and policy frameworks are intended to support and encourage wealth creation and have developed or evolved over a long time period. Government policy is created at a variety of spatial scales to regulate, support and enhance wealth creation. The policy environment that supports and also regulates private sector activities is reactive and proactive: proactive as it attempts to lay down the conditions for wealth creation and reactive as it responds to events, for example, company closure, recession or enhanced competition. In many instances policy is developed that is built upon fashionable theories popularized by consultancy companies and gurus (Bryson 2000). There are many drivers behind the formulation of a policy response: fashion, peer pressure, copying, response to a crisis and the vision of an individual or group of individuals. In most cases, policy formulation is intended to address a particular problem or is driven by a political agenda that might be informed by the latest policy fashion.

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  • John R. Bryson, 2010. "Industrial Design, National Competitiveness and the Emergence of Design-Centred Economic Policy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Grete Rusten & John R. Bryson (ed.), Industrial Design, Competition and Globalization, chapter 2, pages 23-49, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27403-7_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230274037_2
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