National Design Competitiveness Report

The Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) has developed the first-ever framework to evaluate countries' design competitiveness. In December 2008, the National Design Competitiveness Power (NDCP) revealed its first results for the past year.

The report on National Design Competitiveness 2008 found that Italy topped the list while France and the US were ranked second and third respectively. Korea and Denmark shared eighth place and Finland came in tenth. Specifically, France, Italy and the US were ranked high in the public design sector, while the top rankers of industrial design were the US, Germany and Italy. For the civilian design sector, Italy, France and Japan formed a high ranking group. As for Korea, it was ranked first in a design competitiveness evaluation from the standpoint of human resources, though it left much to be desired in the categories of achievement, environment and investment.

Overall, Italy was the best rounded leader among the 17 countries in the ranking of NDCP index, while developing economies including India and Brazil lagged far behind the top-ranking countries. In this report, design-competitiveness rankings and an outline of the NDCP model from the study will be introduced.

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