Includes bibliographical references and index.

Designer economies -- Economies of "design", signs and space: management, marketing, design and production -- Nefarious learning: imitation versus inimitability and differentiation by design -- Design histories: anonymous design, hidden innovation and professional design -- Corporate strategy and designing competitiveness -- Design, corporate competitiveness and regional economic development -- Varieties of capitalism : from global production networks to production projects and distributed tasks -- Creating and shaping things: placing and spacing product design -- Designing capitalism: distributed tasks and divisions of expertise and -- Labour.