プロダクト・デザインの創出に発明経験を持つ者が関わることの効果についての実証分析

• Published in: Transactions of the Academic Association for Organizational Science Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 1 - 7
• Main Author: 吉岡（小林） 徹
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Academic Association for Organizational Science 2015; 特定非営利活動法人 組織学会
• Subjects: design fixation; knowledge management; product design; technology and design
• ISSN: 2186-8530
• DOI: 10.11207/taaos.4.1_1

A cross-functional collaboration is one of measures to achieve an innovative output. In regard to product design, a joint work with research and development engineers potentially leads to novel and commercially successful designs since it may provide solutions to technical limitations or unique subject matters to design; however, it may also reduce autonomy of designers, thus the team sometimes prevents a realization of ideal but technically challenging designs originated from designers. This paper aims to discover conditions for successful collaborations between designers and engineers. Using Japanese patent applications and design rights registrations from four major Japanese home electronics manufacturers, we investigated the effect of inventing experience on individual design performance based on the fact that experience enhances creativity by providing various inspirations and substantial solutions to realize such inspirations. The empirical outcomes show that the breadth of inventing experiences of co-workers improves performance significantly only when designers have adequate design experiences. Out estimations also reveal that degree of autonomy of design sections have a significant positive influence on design performance. Our study discovers that designer’s autonomy is a key element to achieve successful product designs. Also, we confirm an importance of product design development team composition management from the viewpoint of experiences they have.