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Designing Pilot Projects as Boundary Objects

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This Chapter discusses arguments on collaboration and innovation through design, the importance of inter-organizational collaboration and collaborative networks as a means to build skills and improve MSE conditions, which are central to this research. The role of Design Pilot Projects for innovation as well as the issues of Design Management and strategies to achieve better managerial and organizational levels are also addressed. Moreover, two important subjects are discussed: (a) the role of Boundary Objects as elements that enable a common language in order to build a new knowledge among participants in collaborative processes; and (b) the ‘system-ability’ issues that help in local changes as well as in processes to scale up the transition towards more sustainable scenarios.

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    These include environmental protection, social development, survival of future generations, diversity, community engagement in policy issues, balance between production and consumption patterns to reduce unsustainable impacts, and cooperation, to improve scientific and technological skills and increase the diffusion of innovative technologies (United Nations, 1993).

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    Francesco Zurlo

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    Viviane dos Guimarães Alvim Nunes

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Zurlo, F., Nunes, V.d.G.A. (2016). Theoretical Background. In: Designing Pilot Projects as Boundary Objects. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23141-9_4

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