A design-based approach research on innovation : from pluridisciplinarity to transdisciplinarity (original) (raw)

2016, 11th EAD Conference Proceedings: The Value Of Design Research

Innovation nowadays is increasingly based on the triple helix model of industryuniversity-government interactions (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, 2000). If institutions' interactions are vital for innovation, such practices have demonstrated that driving innovation requires not only crossover practices but also innovation in research. As a consequence, researchers must renew their epistemology, including the design of their research. In this paper, we present the research approach developed in a triple helix model-based initiative named I.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Arts), a national sponsored project (IDEFI grant in 2012) that uses Design Thinking as a methodology for project management (Péché et al., 2013), Effectuation as a philosophy for Action (S. Sarasvathy 2004) and Art as an experience. We explore how the cross-over, pragmatic and pervasive approach of design thinking is especially adapted to building a research that has to be abducted from lived experiment with a constructivist way of thinking (Le Moigne, 1995). Research-Action in both teaching field and consulting field could be a good vehicle for such a research based on a pluridisciplinary research group tending to transdisciplinary practices. This paper tries to define the model and discusses the limits of research aimed at innovation by and on design.

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