Design Innovation As A Driving Force Of National Development

At present,the new round of scientific and technological revolution has not only brought changes to the technique foundation,the mode of production and the mode of life,but also brought reform of management and transformation of social resources allocation system.All countries in the world have shift the focus of development from production factors to innovative factors,and innovative design has become the core to keep the advantage position in the fierce international competition.As a national design policy that has been incorporated into the national design innovation system,its policy direction,orientation of design in the social economic sustainable development,as well as how design industry coordinated develop with manufacturing industry,and then form strong advantages in promoting the development of Chinese social economy and international competitiveness,are all realistic issues that must be taken into account when formulating national design policies for China.Starting from the standpoint of Design Research,this paper takes how design innovation drive national development as main research strand,and makes analysis of time structure,economic structure,and logical structure to explore both positive and negative experiences of Finland design policy,so that it can provide useful Finnish references for China's design policy research and formulation.In the research content,the first chapter analyzes current situation of world's research and practice,especially the advanced Western countries,so then it puts forward the research method and framework.In Chapter two,the theoretical basis for sequent research is established through the construction of design policy theoretical foundation and theoretical analyzing framework.Through the perspectives of traditional public policy research,like the Market Failure Model,the System Failure Model,it investigates the research logic of design policy.In addition,the theoretical methods in the field of Design,like social innovation and design thinking is adopted into research to provide new research method for domestic design research.The third chapter focuses on the study of Finland's national geography,history,culture and economic development,as well as the major crisis in Finland's history and its impact on the direction of national development,formation of national psychology,and changes of policies and systems.The historical events in Finland related to design development are the key content in the fourth chapter.From the perspectives of design promotion,design education and design industry evolution,the key historical stages of Finnish design are reviewed.It analyzes how the development of Finnish design is influenced by Finland's policy,economy and culture,and conducts in-depth discussion on the idea of design building up nations and the promotion of Finnish design policy.Chapter 5 and 6 are the core parts of this paper.The fifth chapter further discusses how the policy-making define and analyzes contradictions and problems that have been produced in the course of Finnish design policy evolvement as well how the possible reasons of these problems be identified,how the possible goals be determined,and the interest of all parties be balanced and finally forms a policy product to the public on the basis of study on the Finnish design policy historical background,formulating process,content,and comparison between the old and new policies,while the sixth chapter evaluates the international overall performance and general features of Finnish design policy from empirical research angle.The evaluation index system for Finnish design policy is constructed by adopting factors analysis and Delphi methods.10 countries and regions representative of international design policy development such as American,Europe,Japan,China and so on are compared with Finland and the result is analyzed.Ultimately,based on the comprehensive results of empirical research,it summarized the achievements,problems,and trends of Finnish design policy systematically,and puts forward the relevant ideas and strategies of design policy research applicable for China's national conditions.At last,the main conclusion of this paper and the prospects for subsequent research are contained in the seventh chapter.Above research work provides a clear message that there is a profound discrepancy between the design policy under the control of national ideology and the design industrial policy with the consideration of economic benefit.From the viewpoint of value change,the state form representing the evolution of production order has pushed design value to the strategic level,so that the connotation of value is no longer profit logic only,but a comprehensive consideration in many aspects,such as economy,society and ecology.As a result,the adjustments in policy research and practice is inevitably,which ultimately leads to the transformation of design policy research:First,although the world's understanding of design basically stays in the design of 1.0 and 2.0(industrial design)stage,and many researchers have not paid enough attention to the characteristics of economy and society in the global knowledge network era,it can still be observed that the research logic of design policy is transforming from serve to promote the national design competitiveness only into serve to comprehensive social development.Second,the research group of design policy is becoming increasingly stronger.In particular,more and more researchers from field of Design begin to join in the design policy research group,except for the public policy researchers,innovative policy researchers and industrial policy researchers.Thirdly,the standpoint and purpose of research on design policies are increasingly diversified and changing quietly.It is no longer solely serve to the government's decision-making in the relevant fields of design,but can also make a contribution to the construction of Design Research system through the study of design policies and strategies.Compared with the research and practice of international design-advanced countries and regions,China lacks of design policy in the national level,and is still at the low competitive level of benefit-driven in terms of the national competitiveness.Therefore,international positive and negative experiences in constructing national and regional design innovation system,and the measures in the aspects of design-driven innovation and economic change can provide new options and paths to the transformation of economic growth mode,and also the promotion of the independent innovation system in the industrial field,and so offer references to feasibility study on incorporating design policies into national strategy.