Sylvia Liu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | PolyU · School of Design

With the transformation led by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the nature of product innovation has shifted from traditional physical products to smart products or Smart, Connected Product (SCP). There is not a comprehensive understanding of SCP since it is proposed in 2014. And, this is a new and unfamiliar arena for designers. To fill the gap i...

This paper describes how Xiaomi, one of China's largest and fastest growing technology companies, constructed its ecosystem in order to achieve disruptive innovation in a number of different industrial sectors. In this paper, we argue that in order to understand how this comes about, we need to consider the role of the firm's broader ecosystem in t...

This study is an extension of John's research of managing design in Chinese manufacturing industry and focuses on their design awareness. Two sets of factors about design awareness and support for design are utilized for questionnaire survey. The result introduces the levels of design awareness in the firms and its influence in design implementatio...

University. Her research areas are design-driven entrepreneurship, design management capability and design policy. The intersection between design and entrepreneurship is an emerging research field. Design is stated as an approach, process or method for entrepreneurship. This overlaps with the concept of design management, especially the entreprene...

Efforts will be made to improve the innovative design capabilities of advanced manufacturing industries and strategic emerging industries. Major breakthroughs will be made in key technologies and system integration innovation capabilities in the fields of electronic information, high-end equipment, new energy, new materials, aerospace, rail transpo...

Innovative design talents are the basis for the development of independent innovation capability. The scientific contributions of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Shannon and Wiener, as well as the design innovations and inventions of Watt, Siemens, Bell, Edison, Otto, Dessel, Benz and Wright brothers, led and promoted Britain, Germany and the United Sta...

China’s economy has entered a new normal of innovation-driven, quality and efficiency improvement. Although China is a major manufacturer in the world, the weak capability of innovative design has become the weakness and the main bottleneck, thus affecting the development of manufacturing industry. As an important part of the national innovation-dr...

Sharable design spawns new manufacturing formats such as outstanding packages, crowdfunding and customer creation. Sharing integration brings new design opportunities, production modes and business opportunities. Sharing agglomeration creates a cross-temporal and cross-regional form of resource integration. The implementation of the manufacturing p...

We will build a theoretical system of innovative design with Chinese characteristics, a digital, networked, green and intelligent design technology system. We will build a knowledge base platform for innovative design, focusing on industry-based platforms such as design knowledge database, materials science database, commercial big data and patent...

Efforts should be made to cultivate world-class manufacturing enterprises with strong innovative design ability, key core technologies and independent brands, so as to promote the transfer of technological achievements of large enterprises.

In this chapter, it is hoped that by selecting several typical cases of innovative design, more Chinese enterprises will be inspired to explore the significance, methods and paths of innovative design, and the whole society will be promoted to carry out more extensive and in-depth innovative design practice.

Design is the imagination and planning of human purposeful innovative practice. It is the forerunner of transforming information, knowledge, technology and creativity into products, technologies, equipment and business services, and determines the quality and value of manufacturing services.

In recent years, entrepreneurship has become a popular topic and attracted many young people to start their own companies. In entrepreneurship, design is generally viewed as essential to innovation, replacing the conventional role of the engineer. Unlike traditional businesses, which generally take a longer time to become established in the more st...

In the past decade, academic researchers and industrial practitioners developed various methods to set up a frame linking “good design” to “good business”. In most cases, their interest lay in the industrial economy and focused on the manufacturing industry. In the knowledge economy, dynamic capability is the new feature a firm should prepare for t...

Strategic design is a driver for innovation that can lead to sustainable competitive advantage. Over the past two decades, the barriers limiting breakthrough strategic design development have been studied in much detail. However, that research is based on well-developed practices in Europe, where strategic design and innovation capabilities have be...

In the past decade, academic researchers and industrial practitioners developed various methods to set up a frame linking "good design" to "good business". In most cases, their interest lay in the industrial eoconomy and focused on the manufacturing industry. In the knowledge economy, dynamic capability is the new feature a firm should prepare for...

Facing the challenges arising from the new economy for indigenous innovation in the manufacturing industry, the Chinese Central Government unveiled a new design related policy, Made in China 2025 in May 2015. Guided by Yongxiang Lu and Yunhe Pan, a research team formed by the Chinese Academy of Engineering proposed the concept of Innovation Design...

This study explored how breakthrough innovation can be stimulated in the context of China. Interviews with leading design practitioners led to a comprehensive framework of barriers to innovation, out of which design education is chosen as the main focus. The leading practitioners provide suggestions on the adoption of strategic design in the contex...

The Chinese focus on innovation design as a way to transform challenges into opportunities in the knowledge economy. From speed to quality, from products to brands, from “made” to “created”—China's new design brief.

Todo e qualquer país que queira ter um lugar digno no concerto das nações precisa do design na prática cotidiana de seus governos e empresas. É consenso que a incorporação do design leva a um melhor atendimento das necessidades dos cidadãos e, em consequência, melhora a performance dos setores públicos e privados. Daí a importância da adoção de pol...