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Design Engineering Practices in Indian Manufacturing Firms: An Empirical Study

Authors:
Santanu Roy
Parthasarathi Banerjee

Keywords: Design engineering; national capital region; India; indicators; industrial innovation

Abstract:
The design process is a critical component in competitive product development and in the industrial innovation process. The work reported in the paper tries to map the different patterns of design engineering practices as industrial innovation indicators as they occur in firms located within the National Capital Region (NCR) of India representing New Delhi and its surrounding regions and highlights the role of developing suitable indicators to tap specific design engineering practices and the network linkages. The results indicate that majority of firms possessing a separate design department exhibit a better appreciation of what constitutes a successful innovation and follow it up by formulating design engineering agreements with a networked partner simultaneous to marketing, service or R&D arrangements, and also that firms with more open cooperation with the outside research environments almost always have been more technically successful in designing new products.

Pages: 51 to 56

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4391

ISBN: 978-1-61208-160-1

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011