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Department for innovation to fund the design council

The Design Council is to be funded by the newly created Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, following the overhaul of the Department of Trade and Industry by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.<br /> <br /> The council’s latest funding application to the DTI will now be considered by the DIUS. Its move away from the DTI’s replacement body, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, raises some questions about design’s role within business in the eyes of the Government.<br /> <br />

According to Design Council chief executive David Kester, moving under the wing of the DIUS sends a ‘strong’ signal that the placing of design alongside science, engineering and maths indicates that it is high on the Government agenda, and that it will play a fundamental role in the development of the economy.
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