This study analyzes the use of design and the position of the design function in Finnish manufacturing firms. We also … study the impact of design on companies’ business performance. The paper is based on a survey directed to the member … companies of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) in November‐December 2005. According to the results, design use in …

guided the design, and it was clear that a less thorough qualitative process would have resulted in a less useable and valid … design. To elicit relevant attributes and levels for a DCE, fieldwork in clinical departments in Danish hospitals was …

policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

The importance of design has been recognised by scholars from different fields such as artificial sciences and … engineering, innovation, arts and creativity and management. Despite a shared understanding of the role of design as a potential … underpinning a design project (from purely artistic to purely engineering, problem-solving) and the types of knowledge design can …

these issues for three high-tech industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and electronic design …

a system facilitates complete new possibilities to design a suitable monetary policy. More specifically, the purpose is … to show that the available monetary tools can be used to design a rule-based monetary policy that guarantees stability of … purchasing power and interest rates. Research methods: The paper is design oriented. It describes how the monetary system could …