Industrial design skills for innovation

Abstract

This document responds to the relationship between industrial design and innovation, which has become closer in terms of product innovations, which when reviewed from the history of industrial design, with emphasis on the German design schools of the "modern" movement, were of great influence for the gestation of our schools in Latin America, and the current bibliography regarding competences and roles of industrial design. In light of the competencies that designers intend to develop and practice, there is a great capacity to contribute to innovation processes in companies, which can go beyond product or service design and development. It concludes with the definition of competence, and industrial design competences, in terms of what it does and how it does it, where the starting point is the historical bases and culminates with those currently required for the development of the profession.