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Find out what the national and international press have to say about the Design Council's work, in our round up of recent press coverage
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Hilary Wilce, The Independent
09 October 2008
Is it possible to teach creativity and entrepreneurship as easily as you can teach accounting and project management?
Anthea Lipsett, Guardian
08 October 2008
The millionaire entrepreneur has pulled out of creating a school in Bath after the government rejected his £12.5m funding bid
Business Week
07 October 2008
Watch a video of Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, talking about taking a design approach to solving problems in the credit crisis.
G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Vitón, Business Week
If your innovation efforts are limited exclusively to products, you are missing a significant chance to connect with your customers
Harvard Report; published in The Sunday Times, South Africa
21 September 2008
It is high risk to let outsiders take charge of designing your firm’s new platform-based products
The Economist
04 September 2008
In future, most new internet users will be in developing countries and will use mobile phones. Expect a wave of innovation.
Sumathi Bala, Financial Times
28 August 2008
In order to give its home-grown design students the skills to compete in the global market, China has launched a nationwide student design community.
