Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution by Takahiro FujimotoEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 437 Pages | ISBN : 4431551441 | 28.58 MB
This book integrates the concept of design into the existing framework of industrial performance, international trade and comparative advantage in trade and industrial phenomena, which increasingly have been affected by design characteristics of tradable goods. Design, capability and their evolution are introduced into current theories of trade to explain the reality of international trade in the early twenty-first century and the possibility of design-based comparative advantage is explored. Toward that end, the concepts of design, architecture, organizational capability and productivity are introduced, as are their interactions and evolution.