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ABOUT BRITISH DESIGN INNOVATION — The Voice Of Industrial & Service Design
British Design Innovation (BDI) is the trade organisation for leading industrial design consultancies, service design consultancies and innovation professionals that promotes members’ creative expertise, knowledge and experience. The most influential membership organisation of its kind, BDI is the representative voice to industry of the majority of the most qualified top-end product, service, brand, digital and innovative 3D packaging design consultancies in the UK, each with over a decade of experience in sectors such as aeronautics, biotechnology, consumer electronics, food and drink, medical, nanotechnology, telecommunications and transport.
Collectively, BDI members share 3,000 years of IP commercialisation experience that has generated over £1,000,000,000 in revenue for organisations of all sizes, in all markets. With portals in every region of the UK, BDI is concerned with the engagement of these world-class designers as the glue binding innovation and knowledge exchange partnerships together, and strategic design as a competitive advantage.
Founded in 1993, BDI is an independent not-for-profit organisation financed by its members and managed by 30 regional board directors, and receives no government funding. BDI member companies generate a collective turnover exceeding £200 million per annum. Working from HM Government assessments that £1 invested in strategic design generates an ROI for business of £225, BDI members are responsible for generating £5 billion per annum in industry revenue.
BDI’s designers are engaged as key advisors by the world’s largest brand owners to progress product, service and brand development contracts. They apply new ideas and ways of thinking in support of start-ups, early-stage companies, global corporations, science parks and university technology spin-outs, and advise established portfolio companies on behalf of fund managers and investment teams. They play a crucial role in IP commercialisation, innovation and brand strategy, new market identification and applications, design development, implementation and stakeholder management, and translate science, engineering and technology into tangible products and services businesses can manufacture and consumers wish to buy.
BDI’s Innovation Filter™ (a secure portal for evaluating ideas, trading IP and identifying business partners) and Open Innovation Challenge™ — a knowledge and concept trading vehicle utilised by corporate brand owners and professional Originators — are accredited as best practice knowledge transfer processes by the Institute of Knowledge Transfer www.ikt.org.uk. BDI’s Innovation Bank™ is an open innovation platform for professionals within the innovation community: designers, academics, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs and global brands.
BDI’s website www.britishdesigninnovation.org is the national resource for those seeking to connect with the UK commercial design and innovation industry. It receives more than 14 million hits from over one million unique visitors per annum, who download over 10,000 documents every month. It also contains the UK’s first content-rich members’ Design Directory and a Newswire delivering design and innovation news, articles, reports and opinion pieces to 30,000 e-mail subscribers and 35,000 RSS feeds every month, and reaches an additional audience of 70,000 worldwide online visitors every month.
is regarded as an effective way to bridge research, innovation, management and design, and forms an ideal commercial bridge between originators and industry, and between technology and the consumer. Approximately 300 world-class strategic design companies in the UK are recognised as world-class exponents of strategic design and innovation, and typically contain experts in business creation, consumer anthropology, development and management, branding, digital and graphic design, engineering, industrial design, innovation, product design, science, service design and technology.
improves the aesthetics, production and marketability of a product by resolving problems of form, usability, ergonomics, technology, engineering, marketing, brand development and sales, thereby optimising the function, value and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer.
is the activity of planning and organising people, infrastructures, communication and the material components of a service, in order to improve its quality, the interaction between service provider and customer, and the customers’ experience.
The UK’s multi-faceted commercial design industry generates more than £15 billion in turnover and an average £1 billion in annual export income.
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