| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M72654/01 |
| Title: |
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MANUFACTURE & NATIONAL IDENTITY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Spring, Dr M |
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| Department: |
Manchester School of Management |
| Organisation: |
UMIST |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
27 September 1999 |
Ends: |
26 December 2000 |
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52,893
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| Manufact. Business Strategy |
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In order to create wealth and jobs in the UK, innovative design must be part of a domestic manufacturing and supply network, rather than merely a provider of good ideas for manufacture overseas. This project concentrates on products that succeed, in part, because they convey, trhough their design and production, a sense of national or regional identity. This will be examined by studying cases of successful, distinctive, imported products on the one hand, and successful domestic products that are distinctively British in the other.The work will be based on the industrial networks model and is novel in its combination of industrial design with operations management and supply issues. The research will be carried out by the Principal Investigator and one Research Assistant over a period of fifteen months. The work will be disseminated through conferences, workbooks anjd published papers so as to assist UK firms in reconfiguring their own networks in order to successfully integrate UK design talent with UK manufacturing. It may also be possible to link dissemination with the Millennium Products initiative, and to develop case-study teaching materials.
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