Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With the right collaborative and supportive structures, the skills and ideas of craftspeople, designers, innovators and scientific researchers can work together to strengthen industry and improve its products. This selection of RSA lectures describes how this can be done.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Crafts and their industrial future
• The importance of craft to design for industry
• Helen David English Eccentrics - freedom to innovate within a structured framework
• Tomato - a new model for creative enterprise
• Priestman Goode - taking creative opportunities
• They that go down to the sea in ships - a revolution in container design
• Innovation and invention, or insight and investment: what is important?
• Are we getting better at exploiting our scientific and innovative capability?
• The decline (and success) of science in England
• Information on RSA programmes
• Index