Concern about the role played by design in industrial and economic achievement now extends to include the problems of managing design. In turn, this leads to consideration of how management education prepares students to deal with design and designers. This paper surveys current design management teaching and reports on recent research undertaken to pin-point the essential ingredients of a curriculum to bring design into management courses.
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