Analysis of Student Admission Methods of Two Industrial Product Design Departments in Turkey and Innovation Capabilities: A Conceptual Framework

Year 2018, Issue: 20, 53 - 61, 23.07.2018

İlgım Eroğlu

https://doi.org/10.17484/yedi.414709

Abstract

Until recently, there had been two diversified student admission methods
for product design departments in Turkey. These models can be shortly defined
as aptitude tests and central examinations conducted by Measuring, Selection
and Placement Center (Ölçme Seçme ve Yerleştirme Merkezi – ÖSYM). The nature of
these admission methods provided universities with students who had both
different abilities and backgrounds. In this study, a conceptual framework is
provided to discuss if these differences can enable design students’ with
different approaches to design-driven innovation. Innovation capabilities for
different types of design-driven innovation are identified through related
studies in literature to be evaluated together with requirements for success in
the two different admission methods.

Keywords

Design education, design-driven innovation, radical innovation, incremental innovation

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