Innovation principles and their possible application in social design

This work examines the concepts of stressor (i.e. challenging conditions given by the environment, resources and knowledge level), antifragility, cumulative experience, context, simplicity, emergent platforms among others, as well as its possible application in product design, intended to solve or mitigate the effect of social problems. The document is divided into five chapters, being the first one devoted to the theoretical review of literature from four knowledge areas: Cultural, Scientific, Experimental and Logistic. In the second chapter, ideas and concepts from the different literature resources and knowledge areas are combined in the so-called Theoretical Triangulation Process, whose final aim is to generate statements based on the bibliographic review. The third chapter includes a further development of the statements reached in chapter two and from them, it is proposed a set of principles extracted from the literature review to promote technical innovation in social design. Chapter four includes a comparison between the suggested principles and those already developed in the existing design-related literature, identifying similarities, differences and opportunities so that a richest framework of innovation in social design conducted by institutions or organizations can be created. Finally, the fifth chapter presents the conclusions, challenges and possible opportunities for its application.