Members of European Design Innovation Initiative announced
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The European Commission has announced the members of a new European Design Leadership Board, to strengthen the link between design and innovation.
The newly established Board of fifteen members from umbrella organisations, design promotion institutions, leading academics, industrialists and designers will steer the European Design Innovation Initiative (which has a Secretariat based at Aalto University in Helsinki) with the aim to “exploit the full potential of design for innovation and to reinforce the link between design, innovation and competitiveness”.
It will also support the European Commission in developing a joint vision, priorities and actions to better integrate design into innovation policy.
The members are:
BEDA – Bureau of European Design Associations – Deborah Dawton, President
UEAPME – European Association of craft, small and medium-sized enterprises represented by Gerin Trautenberger, Vice-President of Austrian creative Industries – member of UEAPME
TAFTIE – the European Network of Innovation Agencies – represented by Andrea Siodmok, Technology Strategy Board – member of TAFTIE
German Design Council, Andrej Kupetz, Chief Executive Officer
Barcelona Design Center, Isabel Roig, Directora general
Hungarian Design Council, Dr. Miklós Bendzsel, Chairman
Christian Bason, MindLab Copenhagen
Giovanni Antonio Cocco, Managing Director ISNART S.c.p.A, Istituto Nazionale Ricerche Turistiche
Rachel Cooper, Professor of Design management, Chair of Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and Chair of Imagination Lancaster
Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Chairman of the Committee supporting World Design Capital Helsinki 2012; former President and CEO of Nokia Corporation
Stefano Marzano, Chief Creative Director, Philips Design
Klemens Rossnagel, responsible for Design Research Audi Group
Livia Tirone, Tirone Nunes, Founder of Tirone Nunes dedicated to designing and promoting “bio-climatic” & “sustainable buildings”
Roberto Verganti, Visiting Professor in Copenhagen Business School, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy and Professor in Politecnico di Milano
Thierry Wasser, Perfumer, Guerlain
A first meeting of the newly established European Design Leadership Board took place in Helsinki on Friday 27th May 2011.
The European Design Innovation Initiative is to be launched by European Commissioner Tajani as a component of the Innovation Union later this summer.
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