Project description
Twinning for design innovation assessment in business
The Twinning+ methodology aims to collaboratively develop and test common innovation support activities for organisations using their collective experience and knowledge. Through the Twinning+ concept, the EU-funded DesImO project will connect four organisations to jointly explore best practices and provide recommendations and instruments concerning effective measuring of design and its impact on SMEs. The project will peer review past and on-going initiatives to assess the impact of design interventions in the business sector. It will identify good practices and further study their implementation and the data collection methodologies applied, estimating the advantages and limitations of those methods. The project will elaborate a Design Options Paper that will include the results of the peer review and the pilot testing.
Objective
The main objective of the project is to collaboratively address a common innovation support challenge, through the concept of the Twinning+ methodology. Design Impact Observatory (DesImO) aims to bring four organisations together, to jointly explore best practices and provide guidelines and tools regarding effectively measuring Design and its impact on SMEs.
During the implementation of the project, the partners will peer review past and on-going initiatives focusing on measuring impact of Design interventions in the business sector (and especially in SMEs). The good practices will be identified and further researched on how they were set up, what data collection methodologies they applied, what were the advantages and limitations of those methods.
Using the Twinning Advanced methodology, this initiative will lead to the elaboration of a Design Options Paper (DOP), which will include the results of the peer-review process and of the pilot testing, and will also act as a backbone of how to set up a ‘Design Impact Observatory’. This will help other innovation agencies to monitor the level of integrating Design – or any other driver of innovation – into business and its impact on SMEs.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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