This paper is part of the research results of “Capacity Building for Science and Technology Innovation Services - Construction of Scientific Research Bases - Beijing Collaborative Innovation Center for Foreign Cultural Trade and Cultural Exchange” (2014 Collaborative Innovation Center, municipal-level).
Abstract
Denmark is globally recognized as a “design nation” and is the first country in the world to introduce a formal design policy and strategy. To Denmark, design has become a policy instrument and also a national strategy. China has now entered a stage featured by industrial upgrading, digital governance, and the pursuit of high-quality growth. Therefore, it is necessary to study Denmark’s design policy to learn how to integrate design into business and public sectors to produce powerful effects. This paper first studies the evolution of Danish design policy and the successful cases of the application of design policies in real life, and then, based on this, summarizes the major reasons for the success of Denmark’s design policy. Further, this paper, taking Denmark’s design policy as a reference framework, offers suggestions such as upgrading industry to “designed better”, building design and industrial ecosystems, incorporating design into digital governance, establishing evidence-based design policy to promote design in the Chinese business and public sector, and implementing its own design policy.
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