Дисертації: "Innovation drives"

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Liu, Changyuan, and Suleman Akbar. "How Innovation Culture Drives Growth at Al-Elm." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13873.

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Introduction With great deal of emphasis being placed at a company‘s ability to innovate for its continual survival, and the role the Innovation Cul-ture at a company plays in achieving that innovation, and translating the dream into reality, we set out to study a one such case, Al-Elm Information Security Company, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, which had achieved phenomenal growth over the last 6 years through innova-tion. Therefore in this thesis will discuss and present the role of In-novation Culture in driving growth, particularly in Al-Elm‘s case, as our case study for this research paper.PurposeThe purpose of this research thesis is to study and analyze the role of innovation culture in Al-Elm Information Security Company‘s con-tinued survival and explosive growth.MethodTo fulfill the purpose of this thesis, we followed qualitative research and conducted semi structured and structured interviews with both open ended and closed ended questions through the means of fae-to-face on site interviews in Riyadh Saudi Arabia where Al-Elm is lo-cated, to collect the empirical data. For this study, we have included only seven interviews out of a total of twelve interviews we con-ducted for the purpose of this research, following purposive sam-pling. In the analysis, we analyzed Al-Elm‘s previous success based on Innovation, its current growth trajectory, as well as future projec-tions based on the Innovation Culture, providing insights based on both the empirical findings as well as literature. We deducted the conclusion that innovation culture is the vital source to keep the company, Al-Elm, continually survive and thrive, and grow fur-ther. Actually innovation culture is embedded in the company system and also is a habit for all the people within the organization. Innovation culture makes employee generate more useful ideas and then put them into practice for the company, which is why company has experienced phenomenal growth and has grown exponentially in terms of revenue and size.

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Szajnfarber, Zoe. "What drives spacecraft innovation? : a quantitative analysis of communication satellite history." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57700.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and, (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2009.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-61).
The overall goal of this research is to develop a better understanding of how innovation can, and should, happen in the space sector. Part A: Towards an Empirical Measure of Spacecraft Innovation, frames the discussion of innovation in the space sector and creates a platform for future analysis. To accomplish this, it addresses three aspects of the task of measurement. First, it surveys several distinct literatures to establish precedence for defining a spacecraft innovation metric. Second, the conceptual trade-offs associated with adopting this principle in the context of communication satellites are elucidated and treated. By defining product boundaries along the dimensions of product scope and market transactions, three paradigms for measurement are proposed; namely, 1) the communication satellite enterprise; 2) the physical satellite; and 3) communication service. Third, under the constraints of historical data collection realities, next-best estimators are put forward as surrogates for the parameters required in implementing the proposed metrics. Based on these surrogates, the relative merits of each measurement paradigm are illustrated through sample analyses.
(cont.) Part B: Lessons from Communication Satellite History (1964-2006), captures the first detailed attempt to quantitatively analyze innovation in the space sector. Building on the communication satellite innovation metric (developed in Part A) and a spacecraft innovation framework (developed as part of ongoing work) Part B presents a preliminary model of communication satellite innovation. In addition to innovation being a function of the rate of performance normalized by price, spacecraft innovation is shown to be strongly influenced by characteristics of the customer-contractor contractual relationship. Specifically, DoD contracts tend to result in a lower level of innovation on average as compared to other customers and particular customer-contractor pairs perform differently and exhibit a second order relationship in time. No pair was observed to sustain better than average innovation in the long run.
by Zoe Szajnfarber.
S.M.in Technology and Policy
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Mansour, Mazen. "What drives innovation and productivity? : a case study using data for German firms." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2017. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/5593/.

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This work attempts to explain the relationship between innovation expenditure, innovation outputs, and firm productivity. It investigates the key factors that drive these relationships using unbalanced German manufacturing panel data at firm level captured by the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) between 2003 and 2013. A structural equation model is employed to test the data consisting of three stages proposed by the Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse econometric model (CDM) framework. The first stage is a Heckman model to control for selection bias and to explain the firm’s decision if participating in innovation activities or not, and the level of expenditure on innovation in relation to its previous labour productivity. The second stage is the knowledge production function in which innovation expenditure generates economically valuable knowledge in the form of different types of innovation. The third stage is the production function, which describes the relationship between generating innovation and labour productivity. This work focuses on testing the CDM and the expansions on process innovation and organisational innovation in the production function using the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach. The results imply that the firm’s decision to involve itself in innovation activities is positively associated with its previous labour productivity. However, for those firms which participate in innovation activities, the previous labour productivity affects the level of expenditure on innovation negatively. The estimation results of the knowledge production function suggest that product innovation in the form of new to the firm of clearly improved products rises with innovation expenditure. The estimation results of the production function promote the role of presenting market novelties, process innovation targeted at the reduction of average costs, and organisational innovation as sources for labour productivity. A set of determinants that might affect innovation and productivity were investigated. The empirical results suggest that market novelties are driven by qualified personnel, however, this study was unable to find drivers for process and organisational innovations.

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Faludi, Jeremy. "Golden Tools in Green Design| What Drives Sustainability, Innovation, and Value in Green Design Methods?" Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605917.

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What do product design teams value in sustainable design methods? Specifically, what kinds of activities and mindsets comprise different design methods, and which ones do design teams believe drive sustainability, innovation, and other value? How could they be combined to improve sustainable design’s value to companies? This study was the first to deconstruct green product design practices into their constituent activities and mindsets to characterize them and hypothesize their potential synergies. It was also the first to empirically test and compare what practitioners value within three of these sustainable design practices—The Natural Step, Whole System Mapping, and Biomimicry.

Others have identified mindsets in sustainable design practices, or have identified activities in general engineering design practices, but none have done both for sustainable design practices. Such analysis is important, because most designers do not follow design methods like tunnels of process to pass through completely, but like toolboxes to draw from opportunistically. Here, fourteen design methods, guides, and certifications were deconstructed to categorize their component activities and mindsets, and hypothesize what designers, engineers, and managers would consider useful tools to select for different purposes, or could combine to multiply their value. It also hypothesized some green design methods might be preferred by designers, while others might be preferred by engineers or managers.

Empirical testing of the activities and mindsets within The Natural Step, Whole System Mapping, and Biomimicry measured their value for general purposes, sustainability, and innovation. It did so by providing 29 workshops on these design methods to 520 participants, with 376 survey respondents: 172 professionals from over 30 different companies and 204 Berkeley students, totaling 1,432 pre- and post-workshop survey responses, due to many people participating in multiple workshops. This testing of multiple design methods was new because most literature on sustainable product design either treats all sustainable design the same, or proposes a specific new design method and studies it. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of survey results validated the earlier deconstruction and found “golden tools” in each design method: In The Natural Step, Backcasting was most valued, largely for its strategic benefit of focusing thought to accomplish goals, and providing a new lens. In Whole System Mapping, Draw System Map was most valued, largely for broadening scope, visually showing the larger system, and aiding collaboration. In Biomimicry, Nature as Mentor was highly valued as a new lens to approach problems, and for being inspiring; AskNature.org was greatly valued for providing new ideas and for being interesting / engaging. Some of these and other components of the design methods were valued for sustainability, innovation, or both, and some for neither. Results were broken down by demographics (job role, company type, company size, industry sector, and gender) to see if different groups valued different things, as hypothesized above. However, differences were generally too small to be statistically significant at these sample sizes, which implies that sustainable design methods can be taught and used universally between all these groups, even though individuals vary in what they most value and why.

In addition to these theoretical analyses and empirical tests, 42 professional designers, engineers, and managers were interviewed at the beginning and end of the study to help establish background context for the research, recommend what green design methods to analyze, validate survey responses, and test for longer-term impact of workshops. They valued a wide range of design practices for several different reasons; some design practices were valued for both sustainability and innovation. Differences in responses from sustainable design experts versus traditional design practitioners showed how specialized skills help sustainable design; this implied design teams should not merely use standard design practices while thinking green thoughts. Multiple respondents mentioned the value of combining green design practices with both each other and traditional design practices. The interviews also investigated how design professionals measure innovation, though they were surprisingly resistant to the idea of quantifying it. Interviews also investigated who can best lead sustainability in design teams, why sustainability might provide business value, and how adoption of sustainability might best be driven in design teams.

This study’s results should help designers, engineers, product managers, and others who create our material world to practice sustainable design more effectively. It can help practitioners mindfully choose and combine golden tools from various green design toolboxes to build a better world while building business value.

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Öhman, Peter, and Aylin Evren. "The largest spender wins? An empirical study of how R&D expenditure drives firm growth in listed Swedish companies." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446760.

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The main purpose of this study is to enhance the analysis of the impact of R&D expenditure on firms’ growth. This study adopts an OLS regression for a data sample of 46 firms listed on Nasdaq Stockholm for the 2006-2019 period. We present models with R&D expenditure and R&D intensity as the main mechanisms of firm growth, defined as sales growth in this study. Furthermore, firm size, firm age and sector belonging determining the R&D and sales growth relationship are also investigated. We find that R&D intensity has a statistically significant negative impact on firm growth, while R&D expenditure does not show a statistically significant relationship to firm growth. Thus, the results of this paper suggest that devoting a higher proportion of your sales to R&D activities does not translate into firm growth.

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Carrion, Juan Fernando, and Karam Karl Abi. "Drivers' match that foster employee-driven innovation : A cross-case study of Product Performance Innovation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-146112.

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Big, prosperous and outstanding notable corporations regularly rely on work climates that develop and encourage creative comportments and attitudes. Employees are the most important dynamic behind the creative innovation process; therefore, their engagement is seen as the combination of emotive, lucid and social extents of enthusiasm level, commitment, and attachment to their job tasks. Additionally, firms progressively empower their workforces to conduct research and generate creative ideas. The purpose of this research is to recognize drivers’ combinations and mechanisms directing the employee- driven innovation concept. Understanding employee-driven innovation relies on grasping and understanding the connection between employee engagement and innovation or creativeness. Therefore, in the proposed study, understanding each of the concepts is crucial so to recognize and investigate the link between the theories. The first section of the study is related to employee engagement. Many researches have focused on the connection between human resource management (HRM) and organization creativeness and innovation. Scholars have determined that human resource procedures, when applied jointly in a system form (i.e. high-performance work scheme) have a substantial and constructive influence on a firm's creative outcome. The aim of this part is to assess, discuss and examine existing empirical literature while emphasizing the different employee engagement mechanisms, drivers and shaping factors. The second section is related to innovation and creativity. The literature associated with innovation management led to a rising number of diverse and distinctive models of innovation types and processes. This research relies on a 10 type of innovation model proposed by Keeley et al. (2013) in which the innovation dimensions interrelate and interconnect so to create distinctive, and interesting creative approaches. The third section relates to employee-driven innovation. While some scholars argue about the definition, dependencies, and origin of the concept, the authors argue that employee-driven innovation find its source in the combination of a healthy employee engagement structure and a strong desire of the organization to innovate. The research proposes seven key drivers of employee-driven innovation: Managers and leaders attitude, Team culture - spirit and social environment, Work process - resource allocation, Job design, Corporal environment, Employee suitability, and Organizational values; each of these drivers has a certain impact in specific and critical innovation cases. Consequently, the last part of the dissertation is based on four structured case studies, focusing on product performance innovation, that assess all the different concepts already proposed. The authors evaluate the different innovation patterns, the working environment governing the society, the firm and culture at the time of the innovation and the employee innovative process that lead to the materialization of his creativeness. It is found that from these examples, different drivers supported creative, innovative and inspiring employee behaviors, depending on the technology, sector and organization vision. While there is no single driver inciting employees to innovate, there is a whole framework that should be understood and investigated by an organization so to lead the way for employee-driven innovation. From a practical viewpoint, the research has eased the way for future studies and the development of management guidelines, which firms aiming to foster their employee creative behaviors can rely on. Moreover, the dissertation postulates valuable perceptions into a significant area of study as firms look for techniques and methods to realize competitive advantage through their employees and workforce.

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Mazur, Olga, and Katsiaryna Archakova. "Customer driven innovation." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-921.

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Cooperation between customers and companies has existed for a long time. However, the role of a customer was rather passive and organizations were the ones who dictated their rules and took a leading role in the process of product creation. With a course of time the situation has been changed and customers are becoming more and more involved into the process of cooperation. As a customer driven innovation is relatively new phenomenon, the aim of our study is to examine its status in the modern business world. It can be observed that organizations all around the globe claim about their readiness and willingness to listen to customers and cooperate with them. Companies create customer support sections where they offer to leave complaints, comments and suggestions. Airline companies tend to have such experience. “We want to hear from you. Your feedback is important and helps us become a better airline” claims Delta Airlines. Tiger Airways states “Yes! We want to hear from you! Submit your feedback via our Customer Support Portal”. And there is multitude of such examples. With the help of the investigation of theoretical material, survey conduction and examining practical examples we aim to examine the issue of customer involvement into cooperation with organizations as well as to found out how ready customers are for such collaboration.

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Ahmed, Shohana, and Mohammad Kamruzzaman. "Drivers of eco-innovation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-57311.

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Contemporary business world is now facing a challenge, a shift from traditional innovation to eco-innovation. Organizations need to recognize the importance of environment in any aspect of innovation. This paper aims to deduce the drivers of eco-innovation from the overview of existing literature and empirical study to provide an understanding of the organization aiming towards eco-innovation. The aim of this thesis is to identify the drivers of eco-innovation and objectives being able to understand and review the contribution of innovation and eco-innovation as separate entities.This research is limited to the investigation of drivers of eco-innovation in one single organization i.e. Tekniska Verken, Linköping. Conceptual model of drivers of eco-innovation is created from previous research and verified through empirical study. The model of this research is to outline the three categories of drivers within the limit and scope of this analysis. However modification of the model on the basis of additional drivers has been duly appreciated and elucidated to reflect reality of the research.

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Öberg, Åsa. "Innovation driven by meaning." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-15951.

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Hi-tech companies that want to innovate their products use, quite often, and quite naturally, technology as a driver. But, technology is only one of several drivers of change within product development. It is becoming more and more accessible and alone, cannot serve as the only mean to stay competitive. This research sheds light on a different driver of innovation – namely, through the perspective of “meaning”. An innovation, driven by the search for a new meaning of a product, is connected to the purpose of “why” a product is used. It is not about “how” it is used. In this sense, innovations driven by meaning, are connected to a human’s new experience of use – rather than to the improvement of an existing performance. This type of innovation builds on people and their interpretation of why a product or service make sense in their life and therefore, it is subjective rather than objective. It represents a move, from the classic business perspectives of optimization and control to approach the unpredictable and ambiguous views of humans in a wider, cultural context. A company that reconsidered the meaning of their product, is Germany-based KUKA with their “RoboCoaster”. This product uses existing technology to transform an industrial robot from a powerful, efficient and accurate tool into an exciting amusement ride system, delivering excitement, enjoyment and pleasurable fear. Another example is the Da Vinci surgical system in which, instead of replacing humans in an industrial application, a robot interacts with humans by acting as a surgeon in performing invasive surgery. Through finding new applications of existing technologies – (the Robocoaster )– or through new technologies (the Da Vinci surgical system) – these products are not “better” than existing industrial robots: they have changed the reason why people use them. But, theories on how to innovate with a “meaning” perspective, (i.e. on how to develop new interpretations for products and services) are rare. Indeed, dominant streams of innovation research have been connected to problem solving (Simon, 1996, Clark, 1985, Pahl and Beitz, 1988, Clark and Fujimoto, 1991, Teece et al., 1997 , Krishnan and Ulrich 2001) or idea generation (Brown, 2008, Martin, 2007). This research instead, set the focus on the context. It is a move from a cognitive focus to a social one. A move from user driven innovation strategies to also embrace a wider network of actors in the process of interpretation. The nature of this innovation is different and therefore, it requires a different approach. In this licentiate thesis the nature of innovation of meaning is examined and its relevance and practice discussed with the help of hermeneutics. The research suggests that innovation of meaning calls for new theoretical frames in innovation studies: from innovation as a process of problem solving and creative thinking to innovation as a process of interpreting and envisioning.

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Nair, Jayraj. "User driven product innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43095.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 49).
Accelerating diffusion of innovation to end users and enabling faster adoption is essential to product developers, especially in the industries having a rapid pace of innovation. The ability of innovators to engage with the user community to understand their needs, motivations and top issues is critical to developing products that hit the mark on meeting user needs. In the computing industry there is a need to evolve the innovation development process in parallel to the exponential growth in complexity of the products and the broad ecosystem support that is required to meet user expectations. There are many paths to engage a user community and to obtain end user insights to create a product vision and new usage models. A simple "proof of concept" framework extending product research and development to the end user community is articulated herein. This proof of concept framework is defined in the context of a platform - a collection of ingredients that work together to meet user need. Proof of concept is conducted with users prior to general availability of a product with early ingredients that are in the research and development pipeline. All business users of new product platforms do not adopt an innovation at the same time and can be qualitatively placed in widely accepted classification of adopter categories based on their receptivity to adopting a new product. The leading adopter categories in order are the innovator, early adopter and early majority. These categories of users may help shape current and future generations of a product specifically by validating usage scenarios with integration and deployment of a product under development in real user settings, and by helping to define trends and map requirements for future generations of platform capabilities. Using the proof of concept framework in this way helps ensure that when a product goes to market, it simply works and meets user expectations.
The importance of recognizing a user need cannot be understated. The user feedback from the platform proof of concept stimulates research and development activities to address specific user needs in the current or future generations of a product platform. There are multiple communication channels for potential adopters of an innovation. Mass media channels are effective means to create awareness of an innovation. Proof of concepts with potential users enables more rapid eventual diffusion by translating user deployment and integration learning's into product characteristics that are broadly appealing to potential adopters.
by Jayraj Nair.
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Campos, Josue. "Culture: A Driver for Innovation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1504868773591606.

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Ullah, Ikram, and Muhammad Ayaz. "Investigation of Customer-Driven Innovation." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2506.

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Context:- Software companies have changed their strategies from “innovating for customers” and “innovating with customers” to innovating “by customers” which is also known as customer-driven innovation. Actually, companies move toward customer-driven innovation programs because they need to collect as many ideas as possible from suitable customers to ensure their global competitiveness and set the stage for profitable growth. As customer-driven innovation is comparatively a new trend, the objective of our research is to explore its status in the new era of software development. Objectives:- The main aim of our study is to investigate customer-driven innovation in the modern era of software development. It also explores the motives, benefits, communication channels and barriers between customers and software companies to cooperate with each other. Methods:- Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and industrial interviews are two basic types of data collection methods which are utilized to accomplish the objectives of our study. Then qualitative data analysis software is used to perform thematic analysis (Grounded Theory) in order to draw conclusions and highlight useful information from the collected data. Results:- Based on the SLR and interviews result the conclusion was made that there are different types of motives and benefits for company and customer to cooperate with each other during idea generation stage of product and service innovations. We identified various types of activities and communication channels in the context of customer-driven innovation. In addition, we identified different types of barriers that can limit the cooperation between company and customers. Conclusions:- The comparison between theory and practice explored most important motive and benefit for company and customers to cooperate with each other during ideation process of product and service innovation. It also identified most significant activities and communication channels for idea generation in the context of customer-driven innovation. In addition, we identified most common barriers which prevent company and customers to cooperate with each other during ideation process.
In this thesis different aspects of customer-driven innovation were investigated. In this type of innovation customers feedbacks are considered as a driving force for products and services improvement. Therefore, companies let their customers to drive idea generation stage for products and services in order to be become marketplace leader. In this case, customers’ are considered to be primary sources of ideas and suggestions. While the role of company is to listen carefully, analyze, filter and implement the retrieved customers feedbacks into new products and services, then deliver to the customers and receives once again feedbacks from them. In this competitive era, customer is a ‘king’ because he will buy only the products that satisfy their needs and wants therefore company need to actively involve customers in innovation. This study evidences show that customers could be involved in idea generation process for products and service which is beneficial to the company sustainable competence. In addition, we have provided different examples of the companies i.e., Sony Ericsson, Telenor, Sun and Hallmark that have developed products and service with customer cooperation. They claim that the innovative idea should not be only provided by internally but by externally via customers because customer-driven innovation had a better chance of succeeding than company-driven innovation. One of the main issue is aimed to be discussed in this paper was to understand that how company can receive customers feedbacks (ideas, suggestions, complaints) about their products and services. The results of our study indicates that company are using different types of communication channels to retrieve customers feedbacks about their products and services i.e., website, blogs, twitter, facebook, call center, live chat, email, focal point software, share point software, CRM software, software toolkits, video conference, linkedIn and suggestion box. Another main issue that we were aimed to be presented in this paper was to understand different activities organized by companies in order to identify customers’ needs and demands. These different types of activities for idea generation in customer-driven innovation are facebook survey, website popup survey, client survey, market survey, closed feedback loop (call center survey), workshop with customers, brainstorming together with customers, idea contests, focus group, user cases, run a 360, following up meeting with customers, user stories and customers interviews. Based on the SLR and interviews results the conclusion was made that there are different types of motives and benefits for company and customer to cooperate with each other during idea generation process for products and services. The company motives and benefits behind a cooperation are increase customer satisfactions, achieve competitive advantages, collecting new ideas, reduction of market uncertainties, financial benefits and etc. On the other hands, customers achieved various types of benefits to cooperate with company i.e., cognitive or learning benefits, social integrative benefits, personal integrative benefits, monetary rewards, non-monetary rewards and etc. Potential barriers that can limit the cooperation between customers and company were identified. Based on theoretical material and interviews results the conclusion was made hat each side have their own barriers which prevent them to cooperate. The company side barriers are lack of secrecy, lack of expertise, lack of communication channels, hard to implement customers’ ideas and etc. While there are various customer side barriers that can limit cooperation with company during ideation process i.e., customers’ incapability to express, they don’t know whom they may contact, they afraid that the company will raise the cost of the products by identifying their demands and etc. Ultimately, it is not the ability of company to only innovate but their ability to innovate continuously and consistently that is very important. Company can no longer assumes that they have all the knowledge and abilities for innovating for customers nor it is enough to innovate with customers but company need to let their customers’ to drive innovation. In future, successful companies will be those that take benefit from customer-driven innovation in order to increase their growth, enter to new market and be competitors in their market.
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von, Tempski Franziska. "Collective Creativity as a driver for innovation : A qualitative multiple case study analysis of the phenomena of Collective Creativity within innovation-driven environments." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263423.

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In our today’s fast-paced and rapidly changing world, innovation became a crucial factor for economic growth and organizational effectiveness [35,37]. Several factors promoting innovation have been discussed in literature, mostly focusing on individual creativity as its main driver. However, the growing interdisciplinarity and complexity of today’s challenges urge for broader knowledge basis and specialized expertise at the same time [17]. This makes the creative potential of a single talent no longer sufficient enough to create the multidisciplinary novel solutions that are needed. Leading innovation companies such as Google have therefore shown that innovation results from a creative collective working together by combining everyone’s “slice of genius” [20:4]. Yet, research on Collective Creativity (CC) is still limited. Just as innovation or creativity itself, it is a process that does not happen automatically, but which needs to be supported and maintained. However, a holistic and comprehensive model of how such a collective creative environment can be promoted is still missing. Therefore, this study aims at analyzing the phenomena of CC in more detail by answering the research question of this studies: What are the factors that contribute to the development of Collective Creativity in an innovation-driven environment? On the basis of an extensive literature analysis, an integrative framework has been developed to identify the factors by which a creative collective environment is performed. Secondly, a multiple case study analysis of the two leading innovation companies Pixar Animation Studios and Volkswagen has been conducted to test the prior developed framework’s validity and refine it with in-depth insights from the field. Combining the findings of both analyses, a comprehensive exploratory framework has been developed that provides an overarching guideline of the factors that should to be considered when practicing CC. Besides the practical implications of this research for both, leadership and teamwork, it further contributes to an advanced understanding of this so far little researched phenomena and presents directions for future studies.
I dagens ständigt skiftande värld är innovation en avgörande faktor för ekonomisk tillväxt och organisatorisk effektivitet [35,37]. Flera faktorer som främjar denna innovation återfinns i litteraturen, främst inom området ’individuell kreativitet’ som den huvudsakliga drivkraften. Den växande tvärvetenskapen kräver dock en bredare kunskapsbas och specialkunskaper [17]. Detta gör den kreativa potentialen hos en enda talang inte längre tillräcklig för att skapa de tvärvetenskapliga romanlösningar som behövs. Ledande innovationsföretag som Google har därför visat innovationsresultat från ett kreativt kollektiv som genom att kombinera allas ”snitt av geni” [20:4]. Ändå är forskningen om kollektiv kreativitet (CC) fortfarande begränsad. Precis som innovation eller kreativitet i sig är det en process som behöver stödjas och underhållas. En heltäckande och övergripande modell för hur en sådan kollektiv kreativ miljö kan se ut saknas fortfarande [6]. Därför syftar denna studie till att analysera fenomenen (CC) mer detaljerat genom att svara på frågeställningen i dessa studier: Vilka är de faktorer som bidrar till utvecklingen av kollektiv kreativitet i en innovations drivande miljö? Genom en omfattande litteraturanalys har en integrerad ram utvecklats för att identifiera de faktorer genom vulkanen kreativ kollektiv miljö utförs. För det andra har har en flerfallstudieanalys av de två ledande innovationsbolagen Pixar Animation Studios och Volkswagen genomförts för att testa den tidigare utvecklande rammens validitet och förfina den med djupgående insikter från området. Genom att kombinera resultaten från båda analyserna har en omfattande undersökningsram utvecklats som ger en övergripande riktlinje över de faktorer som bör beaktas vid utförande av (CC). Förutom det praktiska konsekvenserna av denna forskning för både ledarskap och lagarbete bidrar det vidare till en avancerad förstående av det hittills otillräckligt undersökta fenomenet och ger vägledning för framtida studier.

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Andersson, Emma, and Viktoria Arndt. "Konsten att skapa den lilla innovativa världen : Hur företag driver fram hållbara innovationer." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Handelshögskolan (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68552.

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Bakgrund: Den tilltagande oron för vår planets välmående har medfört ett ökat samhällsfokus på hållbar utveckling. Det är av vikt att företag engagerar sig i hållbar utveckling delvis eftersom de orsakar många hållbarhetsrelaterade problem, och delvis eftersom de har de resurser som krävs för att lösa problemen. För att påverka hållbar utveckling behöver företag driva fram hållbara innovationer för att förändra deras produkter, processer och affärsmodeller. Forskningsfältet gällande hållbara innovationer är dock i en initial uppbyggnadsfas, och därmed behövs fler studier. Framförallt är forskningsområdet i behov av fler kvalitativa studier som belyser hur hållbara innovationer utvecklas på företagsnivå. Syfte: Syftet med uppsatsen är att öka förståelsen för hur hållbarhet införlivas i företags innovationsprocesser. Metod: En kvalitativ studie med åtta respondenter fördelade över sju semistrukturerade intervjuer. Slutsatser: Studien visar på tre faktorer som behövs för att skapa en organisationskultur där lärande uppmuntras. De tre faktorerna är hållbarhetsramverk, tillit till anställdas förmåga samt frihet i att utforma arbetsprocesser. Tillsammans leder faktorerna till att skapa en lärande kultur som driver införlivande av hållbarhet i innovationsprocessen. Studien visar också att tvärfunktionella grupper behöver skapas i de initiala faserna av innovationsprocessen. De tvärfunktionella grupperna bör tillåtas inneha ett explorativt idésökande som arbetssätt. Det explorativa sökandet efter innovationer kan ske internt inom företagen eller genom externa samarbeten.
Background: The increasing concern for our planet’s well-being has induced an increased focus on sustainable development. It is of importance for companies to engage in sustainable development, partly since they are the reason for many sustainability-related issues, and partly because they have the resources required to solve the issues. In order to affect sustainable development, companies need to develop sustainable innovations to change their products, processes and business models. However, the research field concerning sustainable innovations is still in its infancy stage and therefore requires more research. In particular, the research field is in need of more qualitative research which refers to how sustainable innovations are developed on a company level. Purpose: The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how sustainability can be incorporated into the innovation process. Method: A qualitative study with eight respondents distributed across seven semi-structured interviews. Findings: The study points out three factors that are essential when creating an organizational culture which encourage learning. The three factors are sustainable framework, trust in the employees’ abilities and lastly freedom for employees to form their work processes. Together the factors create a learning culture that drives the incorporation of sustainability into the innovation process. The study also pinpoints the need of creating cross-functional groups in the initial phases of the innovation process. The cross-functional teams should be encouraged to use an exploratory search method. An exploratory search for innovation can be conducted within the corporation or through external collaborations.

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Li, Xin. "Management Control and Employee-Driven Innovation." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32744406.

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Organizations increasingly empower their employees to conduct local experimentation and generate innovation ideas. The aim of this dissertation is to understand the role of management control mechanisms in motivating and managing employee-driven innovation. Specifically, I provide empirical evidence – both quantitative and qualitative – on the specific channels and mechanisms through which employee-driven innovation is facilitated within real-world settings. In the first chapter of my dissertation, I conduct a field study in a gaming company to examine how innovation ideas are generated and selected. I provide details on the various channels through which employee-driven innovation occurs, as well as the management control mechanisms used to manage employee-driven innovation. The rich descriptive evidence enabled me to uncover important themes in the management control mechanisms that balance innovation and execution. The second chapter is based on my job market paper (“Boss, Cut Me Some Slack: Control and Innovation in a Multitasking Environment”) which examines the problem of motivating innovation in the presence of existing execution tasks. Using employee- and project-level data from a software company, I examine the relationship between reduced time pressure on execution tasks and employee-level innovation by exploiting variations in the extent to which predetermined time constraints on execution tasks were loosely enforced by managers in decentralized teams. I find that reduced time pressure on execution tasks is significantly associated with a greater probability of self-initiated innovation. Consistent with theories on employee selection and relational contract, the above effect is more pronounced (1) for employees without significantly negative outcomes on past execution tasks, (2) for employees with a greater preexisting propensity to innovate, or (3) when the supervisor has a history of working with innovating employees. Conditional on submitting innovation prototypes, reduced time pressure on execution tasks is also significantly associated with higher-quality innovation. Despite the formal permission to innovate, many employees in established organizations seem unable to fully and effectively use the granted discretion to experiment. In the third chapter of my dissertation, I turn my attention to whether certain informal control mechanisms (such as social norms) affect the extent of local experimentation. Using detailed loan- and employee-level data from a financial institution that removed its rule-based formal control system, I analyze changes in decision-making patterns and find that employees who are exposed to two different initial control environments (i.e. before and after removing the rule-based control system) have both increased local experimentation over time after being given the right to make their own decisions. But employees from the initial control environment with zero-experimentation rely much more on managers’ or peers’ degree of experimentation to guide their own experimentation.

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Mount, Matthew. "The mechanisms that drive disruptive innovation." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3965/.

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Disruptive innovation as a theory lacks concrete definition and is often misinterpreted in the literature. Previous studies dealing with the phenomenon largely focus on the process of market disruption and the factors that drive the process. However, little research exists that seeks to quantitatively validate existing theory. In response to these problems, we develop a market growth model that is capable of analysing multiple market segments and innovations. Building on existing models of consumer choice and innovation diffusion, we develop a utility-based model that considers the effects of preference structure, demand structure, and development dynamics on market disruption. The model is simulated using data on worldwide shipments of hard disk drives (HDD) across four market segments, namely: mainframe, minicomputer, desktop computer, and portable computer markets. Results show that the proposed model is capable of estimating successive waves of disruptive technological innovation experienced in the HDD industry. Furthermore, qualitative analysis of differing preference structures, demand structures, and development dynamics provide significant insights into how the process occurs. We find that the distance between market segment preferences, the magnitude of optimal demand, and growth rates in technological improvement and absorptive capacity directly influence the speed and likelihood of market disruption. Findings suggest that disruption is not always absolute. Disruptive and disrupted innovations can coexist in the market under certain conditions. Thus, the structure of the market and competition determine the diffusion behaviours of disruptive innovations.

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Subtil, Lacerda Juliana. "Low-carbon innovation: Renewable energy drivers and policies." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399892.

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El desarrollo de la innovación baja en carbono es necesario para generar energía suficiente y, al mismo tiempo, reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de manera suficientemente rápida para evitar un cambio climático extremo. Esto hace con que sea fundamental el entendimiento de los factores capaces de acelerar el desarrollo y la difusión de la innovación baja en carbono. La innovación baja en carbono en el sector energético involucra diversos desafíos en función de la especificidad de sus características y dinámica, razón por la hay renovado interés en su investigación. Esta tesis doctoral reúne una serie de cinco artículos científicos que buscan explorar tópicos emergentes en torno a particular dinámica de la innovación baja en carbono, a saber: la formación de mercados líder, la diversidad tecnológica, la trayectoria tecnológica, estrategias de obtención de conocimiento, e impacto en la reducción de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. El primer artículo presenta una extensión del marco de referencia para análisis de mercados líder donde son adicionalmente considerados los factores referentes a la cadena de suministro y a políticas tecnológicas. Con base en la comparación del desarrollo de mercados líder en la industria eólica de Alemania, China, y Estados Unidos, este estudio demuestra el papel de los contextos de negocios y de las políticas de suporte a la innovación baja en carbono específicos de cada país. El segundo artículo explora el papel de la diversidad en el desarrollo de la innovación baja en carbono. Con base en el caso de la industria de energía fotovoltaica, nueve indicadores de diversidad tecnológica son aplicados para mapear la tendencia en la industria y su impacto en el desarrollo de nuevas innovaciones. El tercero artículo investiga la relación entre la evolución del conocimiento científico y la innovación baja en carbono en turbinas eólicas. Basándose en una nueva modelo para el análisis de citaciones, este artículo presenta nueva evidencia empírica de la relación entre desarrollo de conocimiento científico y la innovación baja en carbono. El cuarto artículo discute los resultados de una encuesta original realizada con organizaciones de investigación para analizar el impacto de diferentes estrategias de obtención de conocimiento en la innovación baja en carbono. Con base en la comparación de la investigación en energía solar y eólica, este estudio demuestra la importancia de políticas direccionadas a tecnologías específicas. Finalmente, el quinto artículo explora de que forma la rápida difusión de innovaciones bajas en carbono puede afectar su efecto en términos de reducciones de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Analizando el caso de la energía eólica, este estudio demuestra el desequilibrio entre capacidad instalada y efectiva producción de energía eólica en cuatro países líderes en capacidad de generación eólica, a saber: Alemania, China, España y Estados Unidos. En resumen, esta tesis combina diferentes perspectivas de economía evolucionaria, ambiental y ecológica con estudios de innovación y clima para investigar las particular dinámica de innovación baja en carbono. Al estudiar los casos de las energías solar y eólica, esta tesis ofrece datos empíricos originales e ilustra nuevas posibilidades de suporte a la innovación baja en carbono.
Low-carbon innovation is required to match energy supply with GHG emissions reductions at a quick enough pace to avoid dangerous climate change. This calls for a deeper understanding of low-carbon innovation to explore factors capable of speeding up its development and diffusion. Low-carbon innovation in the energy sector involves a number of challenges due to its particular characteristics and dynamics which have renewed the interest in exploring its drivers. This doctoral dissertation combines a series of five research papers which address emerging issues regarding the particular dynamics of low-carbon innovation, namely: lead markets formation, technological diversity, technological trajectory, knowledge sourcing strategies and impact on GHG emissions reduction. In the first research paper, an extension of the lead market framework is developed to include supply side factors and technology policy issues. By comparing the development of lead markets in the wind power industry in China, Germany and the USA, this study shows the role of countries’ specific business contexts and policy responses on low-carbon innovation. The second study is dedicated to explore the role of diversity in low-carbon innovations. By looking at the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, nine indicators of technological diversity are applied to map diversity trends in the industry and its impact on further innovation. Subsequently, the third research paper links scientific knowledge evolution and low-carbon innovation in wind turbines. Based on a novel approach to citation analysis, this study offers original evidence on this relationship. The fourth article is based on an original survey among research organisations to analyse the impact of distinct strategies of external knowledge sourcing on low-carbon innovation. By comparing research on solar and wind power, this study depicts the importance of technology-specific policies. The fifth and final study explores how fast deployment of low-carbon innovation can affect its potential of GHG emissions reduction. Considering the case of wind power, it addresses the mismatch between installed capacity and actual wind power output in four of the leading countries in terms of generation capacity, namely: China, the United States, Germany and Spain. In summary, this dissertation combines different perspectives from evolutionary, environmental and ecological economics with innovation and climate studies to explore the particular dynamics of low-carbon innovation. By looking at the cases of solar and wind power, this dissertation builds up original evidence and sheds new light into the possibilities of fostering innovation in low-carbon technologies.

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Bohman, Claes. "Attraction : a new driver of learning and innovation." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institute of International Business (IIB), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-1136.

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In business environments characterized by technological change and rapid imitation, firms must continually innovate and identify new opportunities in order to remain competitive. This study investigates how external actors provide firms with innovative opportunities, ideas, and solutions. Specifically, it examines how firms are influenced by being approached by external innovators who “pitch” ideas for new products that they want to commercialize in cooperation with the firm. Conceptually, the study analyzes firms as magnets to which ideas and resources from outside the firm are attracted.Employing a multiple case study design of Swedish and U.S.companies, the thesis reveals that a firm’s capacity for innovation and exploration of new opportunities is partly shaped by its ability to attract ideas and inventions from the outside environment. It also demonstrates that firms that are particularly attractive to external innovators are in a favorable position to identify and act on strategic opportunities and threats that emerge in their competitive environments. The findings of the study suggest that in order to support their innovation and strategy creation processes, firms should work to stimulate inflows of externally developed ideas and inventions. This involves building a reputation of being trustworthy and receptive to external ideas, as well as broadcasting innovation projects and strategies so that external actors can easily understand how their ideas and inventions might fit in to the firm’s innovation projects and strategies.

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Thompson, Anthony. "Towards Sustainability-driven Innovation through Product Service Systems." Licentiate thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00473.

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Increasing awareness of anthropogenic impacts on the planet has lead to efforts to reduce negative environmental impacts in product development for several decades. Benefits to companies who focus on sustainability initiatives have been put forth more recently, leading to many efforts to incorporate sustainability considerations in their product innovation processes. The majority of current sustainability considerations in industry constrain design space by emphasizing reduced material and energy flows across the product’s life cycle. However, there is also an opportunity to use awareness of sustainability to bring attention to new facets of design space and to drive innovation. Specifically there is an opportunity for product-service systems (PSS) to be a vehicle through which sustainability-driven innovation occurs. A framework for strategic sustainable development (FSSD) provides the basis for understanding sustainability in this work, and provides clarity with regard to how to think about sustainable products and service innovations. The “backcasting” approach included in this framework also provides insight into how incremental and radical approaches could be aligned within the product innovation working environment. This thesis explores how sustainability considerations can be better integrated into existing product innovation working environments in order to drive innovation processes within firms, with a specific emphasis on opportunities that occur as sustainability knowledge leads to innovation through a product-service system approach. It endeavors to contribute to both theory development within the emerging sustainable PSS design research area, and also to advance the state of practice within industry by connecting dots between the state of theory and the state of practice. Society’s opportunity to become more sustainable and industry’s desire for innovation in order to lead to or increase profitability are often in conflict. However, this thesis argues that knowledge of global social and ecological sustainability can be used to drive innovation processes, and that there are win-win opportunities that can often be achieved through a PSS approach. There is some, but not sufficient, support for the inclusion of sustainability considerations in the product innovation process, and even fewer tools to support the use of sustainability to drive innovation. In response, an approach to providing support that brings together the FSSD and various approaches to systems modeling and simulation is presented. Opportunities to use sustainability-friendly attributes of existing products through a PSS-approach are also presented.

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Madrid, Hector. "On innovation as an affect-driven work behaviour." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4528/.

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This thesis aims to theorise and examine whether moods stimulate innovative work behaviour. The latter comprises a construct denoting the generation, promotion and realisation of novel ideas, oriented to benefiting the effectiveness and well-being of an organisation. Over time, organisational behaviour scholars have described individual and contextual factors as relevant to understanding innovative behaviour. However, one topic that still requires more detailed attention is how affect is related to innovation. Several studies have found that moods are related to idea generation, but they have neglected to explore whether similar effects apply to idea promotion and idea realisation. Also, organisational behaviour research has been limited to moods differentiated by their valence (pleasure), even though psychological research has shown that moods necessarily involve both differences in valence and activation (energy). Furthermore, most theory of innovation assumes that affect mediates individual and contextual influences on innovative behaviour, but empirical research dealing with these issues is still rare. This thesis argues that the lack of research on idea promotion and realisation, in favour of idea generation, is a response to limited support for the multidimensionality of the innovative work behaviour construct. In turn, the circumplex model of affect is adopted to define diverse moods described by valence and activation, whilst arguing influences of these moods on innovative behaviour. Moreover, from the perspective of cognitive appraisal theory, moods are argued to be a meditational function between climate of support for innovation, openness to experience and innovative work behaviour. Five empirical studies supported the validity of innovative work behaviour as a multidimensional construct. In turn, results supported a positive relationship between high-activated positive mood and dimensions of innovative behaviour. Finally, multilevel analysis showed high-activated positive mood as a core construct for transforming support for innovation and openness to experience into innovative behaviour.

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Мазна, Ольга Миколаївна, Ольга Николаевна Мазна, and Olha Mykolaivna Mazna. "Sustainability as a driver for ecological innovations." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2006. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8493.

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Higgs, Hariz Imran, and Anna Maria Kocik. "How can stakeholders pressure firms to create value through innovation and CSR? : A study on CSR-driven innovations in the clothing industry." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49240.

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As the clothing industry is influenced by fierce competition and fast changing trends, firms must handle high stakeholder pressure such as for example, increased environmental and social awareness. According to the UN (2019), the clothing industry is the second biggest polluter to the environment, thus demonstrating the urgent need for CSR initiatives to make significant impact in this industry. In fact, many firms have been innovative, but the benefits from these innovations have yet to be seen. The main purpose of this study is to understand how innovation and CSR can be combined to offer value for stakeholdersin the clothing industry and evaluate this through the relationship of the Porter hypothesis, stakeholder theory and value co-creation. This thesis adopts a mixed-method approach by responses from interviews and from a self-completing questionnaire. This is supported by the analysis of secondary data reports from firms in the clothing industry and governmental institutions. The results of this study conclude that firms experience two forms of stakeholder pressure which forces them to innovate, supporting the argument for the ‘strong’ form of the Porter hypothesis. Furthermore, it finds that value creation is inextricably linked to stakeholder theory.

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Delacote, Adrien, and Quentin Dutreuil. "Internationalization Drivers of Swedish Innovative SMEs." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44228.

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Li, Jingxi. "Promoting traditional values in design-driven innovation in Chinese business strategies." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314114515.

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Wassie, Tsegaye Mezgebu, and Melkamu Getahun. "Sustainability and Sustainability driven Innovation in case of LEGO." Thesis, Business and Economics, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7635.

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Tatar, Katherine Ann. "Simplifying tea steeping : design innovation driven by user needs." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105665.

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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2016.
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An affordable appliance was designed to make steeping a "perfect" cup of loose leaf tea easy and less labor intensive for the user. A survey of 235 people, primarily millennials between the ages of 18-27, was conducted to determine key user needs to be addressed in the design of the tea steeping device. Primary concerns identified were cleanability, time it takes to brew, and making the device compatible with travel mugs so users can drink their tea on the go. These key user needs were addressed through system architecture, form factor, and materials selection. A method of steeping a concentrate to minimize brew chamber size was developed. The automated single-serve device proposed brews tea at the required temperature and time to allow users to enjoy the best flavor out of their tea with just one step.
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Johansson, Maja, and Johanna Sjögren. "Framgångsfaktorer vid digitalt driven innovation - privat och offentlig aktör." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20348.

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Genom de senaste åren har världen bevittnat utvecklingen av ett flertal nya teknologier som ligger till grunden för dagens framträdande innovationer. Att driva digital innovation innebär att skapa något nytt och värdefullt genom digitala teknologier. Offentliga aktörer har en strävan efter att åstadkomma önskvärda politiska målsättningar genom innovation, dock besitter inte många av dessa aktörer kunskapen eller resurserna att leverera det som förväntas. Genom att ingå i ett gränsöverskridande innovationssamarbete kan offentliga aktörer i allt större utsträckning finna lösningar externt som inte kan lösas på egen hand. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka framgångsfaktorer vid digitalt driven innovation mellan en offentlig aktör och en privat aktör. Studien har genomförts genom en fallstudie som metod där tolv semistrukturerade intervjuer, inom ett gränsöverskridande samarbete med en offentlig och en privat aktör, har utförts. Utifrån detta har sex framgångsfaktorer tagits fram, som vidare lett till studiens två bidrag baserade på de egenskaper och arbetssätt som identifierats genom studien. Vårt resultat visar att ett hybridiserat arbetssätt och vikten av beställarkompetens är centralt för att framgångsrikt driva och utveckla gränsöverskridande samarbeten.
Throughout the last couple of years the world has witnessed the development of several new technologies on which todays prominent innovations are based. To drive digital innovation means creating something new and valuable through digital technologies. Public operators strives to accomplish desirable political objectives through innovation, although not a lot of these operators possess the knowledge or resources to deliver what is expected. By taking part in a cross functional innovation collaboration public operators tries to an increasing extent create the possibility of finding external solutions that they are not able to develop themselves. The purpose of this study is to examine successfactors in the case of digitally driven innovation by a private and a public operator. The study has been carried through as a case study with a method of twelve semistructured interviews within the borders of a cross functional innovation collaboration between a private and a public operator. On that basis, six successfactors was defined, that collectively created two contributions that was based on the characteristics and work procedures that was defined through the study. Our results show that a work procedure that is hybridized and the importance of client knowledge is the heart to successfully drive digital innovation and developing cross functional collaborations.

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Richert, Bailey E. (Bailey Elizabeth). "Building innovation ecosystems to drive carbon neutral sustainability goals." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104812.

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Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Technology and Policy Program, 2016.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Anthropogenic climate change is the defining sustainability challenge of the twenty-first century which city-level political leaders are attempting to address by setting carbon neutrality goals for their regions. To reach these goals requires the development of new technologies that only innovation-driven enterprises (IDEs), not small businesses, have the ability to create. IDEs tend to form around one another in clusters known as innovation ecosystems. According to the MIT IDE framework, four elements are necessary for the prosperous growth of an innovation ecosystem: capacity of innovation and entrepreneurship, social structure, economic structure, and underlying institutions. If a region has a desire to create an innovation ecosystem capable of producing IDEs that have a carbon neutral focus, they must adequately develop each of these four elements in a strategic manner. Copenhagen, Denmark and Oslo, Norway are two cities which have made a commitment to become 100% carbon neutral. To achieve their goals, they are growing innovation ecosystems with a focus towards carbon neutrality. Applying the MIT IDE framework to the current progress of these two regions reveals recommendations for future areas of development which will quicken their success. These recommendations include 1) generating significant demand and providing early stage investment for companies with carbon neutral goals, 2) collecting better data about green innovation and economic growth against which the regions can benchmark their progress, and 3) crafting supportive policies which allow current infrastructure to become available for new technology testing.
by Bailey E. Richert.
S.M. in Technology and Policy

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Mühlenhoff, Judith [Verfasser], and Katharina [Akademischer Betreuer] Hölzle. "Culture-driven innovation : acknowledging culture as a knowledge source for innovation / Judith Mühlenhoff ; Betreuer: Katharina Hölzle." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2017. http://d-nb.info/121840177X/34.

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Lohmühler, Bertram. "Drivers of product innovation : an investigation of German manufacturing companies." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3394.

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Product innovation is an important driver for manufacturing companies to remain competitive. Although new products are essential to high-technology companies, other sectors are also focusing on product innovation. As the importance of product innovation becomes widely recognised, there is a need to analyse the relationship between product innovation rates and the percentage of revenues generated from new products (defined as product innovation position). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine why companies (business units) within the same industry sector (i. e., in the engineering and electrical & electronics engineering sector) operate with different product innovation positions. Much of the management literature is based on the assumption that product innovation leads to improved company performance in terms of competitive advantage, higher revenues with new products, higher market share and cost or quality advantages. Taking this argument into account, it might be expected that firms with high performance are innovating at a faster rate than less successful companies. But this relationship is not as clear as it appears. Overall, the reasons why companies innovate at different rates require investigation. In other words: the factors which influence product innovation positions need deeper examination. In order to identify the reasons for varying product innovation positions, the research was divided into three phases: The first phase was a survey of 81 business units, which collected data on the number of new products developed by companies. This phase identified errors in measuring the percentage of new products introduced in the last three years (product innovation rate). Therefore, in the second phase, the errors in measuring product innovation rate were corrected through a survey and telephone interviews. In this phase, data from 78 business units were analysed. In the third phase, further investigations focusing on the question why business units have different product innovation positions were conducted through case studies. The investigation used a model of Cooper and Kleinschmidt (1993) as a basis for the case study research of II business units in the industry sectors engineering and electrical & electronics engineering. The results identified three key drivers for product innovation positions: market, competition and product innovation strategy. Further, the two areas NPD management and corporate culture were found as key drivers for the management of product innovation processes. One further important finding is, that product innovation position do not show how innovative a business unit is. With regard to profits, the cross-case analysis found that independent from product innovation position only two of 11 business units earn more from new products than from the whole product portfolio (i. e., from both existing and new products). This implies that the product innovation rate and the percentage of revenues are related to the context. It has to be noted that an investigation of product innovation position was only possible by using a combination of both survey and case study approach.

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Bergvall, Evelin, and Pontus Palmqvist. "Product Development in University Driven Innovation : An action research thesis." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för företagande, innovation och hållbarhet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45385.

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This project has accepted the challenge of integrating competence from six different academies to create a versatile innovation; an autonomous amphibious vehicle for environmental monitoring. Water quality is routinely monitored by manually collecting samples from water bodies which are later on transported to a laboratory where they are analyzed, or by sampling data from stationary sensors placed at strategic sites in different water bodies. The transportation itself can pose a risk to the quality of the samples since chemical reactions can transform the sample (such as pH and turbidity) over time and thus give inconclusive data. Stationarysensors give correct momentary data, but are restricted solely to a few specific points, and often monitor only one parameter. The purpose of the current product development is to contribute to improved environmental monitoring and to a sustainable society, by creating a new efficient technical solution that monitors, analyzes and obtains data on multiple parameters of water quality of water bodies. The long-term goal is to provide responsible authorities, local municipalities, and environmental scientists with a versatile sampling method that produces high resolution, accurate and accessible data. The product development process resulted in a prototype of an autonomous amphibious vehicle that can monitor different parameters of water quality in freshwater. The parameters registered are; pH, turbidity, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, and total dissolved solids(TDS). This is conducted through an autonomous mobile vehicle powered by electricity, the vehicle is programmed to drive at the surface and stop at given geographical positions where a submersible subunit collects data from different depths before moving to the next location. The vehicle is designed to navigate also on moving water bodies such as freshwater streams. The prototype is expected to become useful in the context of water quality monitoring to increase awareness of water pollution and provide data for successful management action.

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Lundell, Håkan. "Disruptive Innovation Som Nyckel Till Framtidens Lärande." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-14350.

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Denna studie behandlar teorin om disruption samt hur högskolan kan med hjälp av denna teori skapa nya utbildningar som är mera meningsfulla för studenterna. Fokus ligger på hur världen runt omkring högskolan förändras vilket gör att högskolan behöver förändras för att kunna erbjuda utbildningar som är relevanta för studenter i framtiden. För att klara av detta behövs en ny affärsmodell utvecklas som kan skräddarsy utbildningar till studenter efter deras unika behov. Orsaken till varför inte den traditionella högskolan kan erbjuda skräddarsydda utbildningar är för att affärsmodellen är standardiserad och ömsesidigt beroende. Även sättet att leverera kunskap på behöver förändras från traditionell undervisning till en datorbaserad undervisning. En av slutsatserna i denna studie är att en disruptive affärsmodell sannolikt inte kan implementeras inom högskolan, eftersom den då skulle bli omformad så att den liknar den gamla. Istället måste en separat affärsmodell bildas som kan verka oberoende från den traditionella högskolan.

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Hardin, Dianne. "The Innovation Imperative: Not Without Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397233924.

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Ottosson, Fredrik, and Rickard Sevandersson. "Identifying Sources of Disruption in the Context of Sustainability-Driven Innovation." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för innovations-, entreprenörskaps- och lärandeforskning (CIEL), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-40137.

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Introduction: Research shows that the lifespan of large companies gets shorter and shorter, the average age of companies on the list of fortune 500 is 33 years, the average age is expected to decline to 12 years by 2027 (Anthony et al., 2018). Innovations that are driven by social, environmental or sustainability issues are defined as sustainability-driven innovations (Metz, 2016). Not much is known when it comes to what sources can trigger a disruptive sustainability-driven innovation. Problem background: There has been many troubling studies about the damage we as humans bring upon our blue planet, these studies are apocalyptic (Osborn 1948; Carson 1962; Meadows et al 1972; Cole et al 1973). To be able to meet the aspirations of millions rising from poverty, we need transformation and change throughout society, and disruptive innovations is the key to unlock this transformation (Sterman, 2015). The disruption literature is well developed when it comes to what sources can trigger a disruptive innovation. There does not exist literature on what sources that can trigger sustainability-driven innovations. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to create a conceptual model that show possible sources of disruption for sustainability-driven innovations. The knowledge created by the conceptual model will be used at a later stage to develop a monitoring tool for TOMRA. To fulfill the purpose of this master thesis we have developed the following research question: what sources can trigger a disruptive sustainability-driven innovation? Methodology: To answer the research question, this thesis used an exploratory research design, inductive research approach and the single case study with participants from four companies that acts in three different industries and five interviews with experts in the field of sustainability-driven innovations as the chosen research method. The primary data has been collected from 13 interviews from new entrants, incumbents, experts and governmental agencies. Secondary data were collected to support the analysis. Findings: The key findings of this thesis are eight new sources of disruption; established technology, public value, public opinion, political decisions, political goals, legislations, subsidizations and demo-pilots Conclusion: Our study showed that there was a gap in the disruption literature, especially when it comes to the source of disruption. Because the study found other sources that might trigger a disruption rather than only new technology and new BMs. Realizing that, the sources of disruption were expanded to have three subcategories that influence each other, technology and BM, citizen awareness and policy.

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Krol, Caspar, and Wiebren Prins. "Cooperation between established corporate companies and start-ups : Gaining innovation power from start-ups’ digital-driven logistics innovation." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CeLS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48611.

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Innovation power is essential for long-term survival in the competitive environment of a corporate and can often only be increased through cooperation. It is therefore crucial for management and researchers to know the most important factors influencing the increase of this power and the effects of the form of cooperation on it. Especially in the field of digitization, many corporates still lack experience, especially in how to cooperate with start-up companies to achieve effective digital innovations. This thesis identifies digital-driven logistics innovation used by corporates and their most important impact factors as well as forms of cooperation between the start-ups who invented those and corporates who are using them for improvement of their own innovation power. Therefore, qualitative interviews were conducted at management level, with large established manufacturing companies and logistics service providers (LSPs) from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Switzerland. The empirical findings show that the influencing variables application area and purpose, logistics activity, size, industry, digital experience, and cooperation experience are the most important factors. They also reveal that within the context of digital-driven logistics innovation, the cooperation between start-ups and the applied form of cooperation could influence the innovation output. The type of innovation is influencing the innovation power and slightly influences the type of cooperation. The cooperation form influences the innovation output as well. However, different results may be obtained for individual cases and companies, especially in the comparison between manufacturing companies and LSPs. Managers of established corporate companies can use these results to identify the best possible form of cooperation with start-ups for future decisions on cooperation to achieve digital-driven logistics innovation.

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Sun, Hongqing [Verfasser]. "CKM-Embedded Innovation Marketing as Success Driver for Product Innovation: : Theoretical Framework and Empirical Research / Hongqing Sun." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1081886978/34.

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Wu, Xiaohua Sherry. "Innovation incentives and competition in the hard disk drive industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69479.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2011.
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Firms in the hard disk drive industry are continually engaging in R & D and improving the quality of their products. We explore various determinants of the product innovation incentives for firms concerned with both their static and expected future profitability. We estimate the observed innovation outcomes as a function of market condition variables which have significant impact on innovation decisions. In addition, we estimate logit utilities that describe the marginal willingness to pay for quality improvements. One aspect of utility is that the willingness to pay for faster access time to data may be initially low but increases over time. The firms' decisions to introduce faster access time are partly motivated by dynamic considerations.
by Xiaohua Sherry Wu.
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Hellbe, Simon, and Peter Leung. "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION : HOW APIS DRIVE BUSINESS MODEL CHANGE AND INNOVATION." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Industriell ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119506.

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Over the years, information technology has created opportunities to improve and extend businesses and to start conducting business in new ways. With the evolution of IT, all businesses and industries are becoming increasingly digitized. This process, or coevolution, of IT and business coming together is called digital transformation. One of the recent trends in this digital transformation is the use of application programmable interfaces (APIs). APIs are standardized digital communication interfaces, used for communication and exchange of information between systems, services and devices (such as computers, smartphones and connected machines). API communication is one of the foundational building blocks in recent disruptive technology trends such as mobile and cloud computing. The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the business impact that is created in digital transformation related to the use of APIs. To investigate this novel area, an exploratory study is performed where a frame of reference with an exploratory framework is created based on established academic literature. The exploratory framework consists of three main parts which cover the research questions, including Business Drivers, Business Model Change & Innovation and Challenges & Limitations related to API-enabled digital transformation. The framework is used to gather empirical data consisting of two types, interviews (primary data) and contemporary reports (secondary data). Interviews are performed with API-utilizing companies, consulting firms and IT solution providers and contemporary reports are published by consulting and technology research and advisory firms. Two main business drivers are identified in the study. The first is Understanding & Satisfying Customer Needs which is derived from companies experiencing stronger and changing demands for automated, personalized value-adding services. This requires higher degree of integration across channels and organizations. The second driver is Business Agility, which derives from higher requirements on adapting to changing environments while maintaining operational efficiency. Cost Reduction is also mentioned as a third and secondary driver, as a positive side-effect in combination with the other drivers. The identified impact on business models is that business model innovation is mostly happening in the front-end of business model towards customers. Several examples also exist of purely API-enabled businesses that sell services or manage information exchanges over APIs. The challenges and limitations identified are mostly classic challenges of using IT in businesses and not specific to use of APIs, where the general consensus is that IT and business need to become more integrated, and that strategy and governance for API-initiatives need to be established.

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Sitzia-Verleure, Benjamin. "Internet-Based Innovation Screening and Pre-Assessment Tool - Prototype Methodology Implementation." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3428.

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This thesis presents the groundwork development of an Internet-based idea assessment tool to guide innovators through the design process and educate them on the ‘best practices’ of transforming creative ideas into marketable products. The system triages registered users based on their knowledge, assesses the most suitable level of technical terminology and completes a pre-assessment of ideas. The outputs of the developed system are an idea outline, a product requirements list, a basic opportunity summary and an opportunity score for the idea being assessed. An extensive literature review on popular product development methodologies was conducted to identify which methodology would be robust enough to be used as part of an online process to assess ideas. A review of 3,600 Internet websites on product innovation and product development indicated a lack of guidance offered on the many product design processes available and mixed messages regarding which to use. The Internet search identified a lack of structure for innovators as well as a lack of coordinated educational resources to guide innovators. Combining the results of the literature review and the information gathered during the Internet search, an online system was developed using several programming languages to complete the pre-assessment tasks. A series of tests were conducted using volunteers to establish the viability of the assessment process developed and test the features developed to improve user/website interaction. Suggestions for further development of the model and method will be made at the conclusion of the thesis. The work presented in this thesis provides an excellent foundation for future development of an Internet-based idea assessment tool to guide innovators through the design process.

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Krčma, Marek. "Inovační trendy Business Intelligence a Big Data v modelu Design driven Innovation." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193364.

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Business Intelligence plays the crucial role in the question of serching for the truth in organizations. Trend of data growing defines the importance of analytical tools for organizations. Innovation is perceived as the only driver which leads to higher living standards in a society in the longterm run (according to the World Economic Forum). This thesis joins two areas: innovation and analytical field of business informatics (Business Intelligence, Big Data). The main goal of this thesis is to identify innovation trends of Business Intelligence and Big Data and to classify them using the Design-driven Innovation model. The thesis also provides a broad perspective of the innovation process in organizations and reveals the mutuality of innovation process, productivity and competitiveness.

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Badrinas, Ardèvol Joan. "Innovation key succes drivers of industrial companies in mature technology segments." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/386325.

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In business terms, the ultimate purpose of innovation is to generate profitable growth, however for mature industrial technology firms (LMTs), operating in mature markets, endeavours of innovation often result in the maintenance of the market share and rarely in creating growth streams. This doctoral thesis intends to shed light on the management practices that make LMTs in mature markets succesful in the creation of innovation driven growth. To introduce the subject, on the basis of a literature review in related tapies, a conceptual framework describing the business environment influencing the innovation behavior of LMTs in mature markets is proposed, and contrasted to the conditions of companies operating in fast moving business environments. The state of the art analysis, based on a literature review, indicates that previous research done on the subject is scarce. A construct explaining the creation of innovation driven growth for LMTs in mature markets has not been found. To collect knowledge on the investigated subject, a multi-case qualitative research has been undertaken. The selected cases are six LMT companies, headquartered in three European countries, operating in mature markets. The collection of data has been primarily based on sem i-structured interviews to 28 executives of the selected companies .To carry out the research, a novel innovation management analysis structure, adapted from existing models, and made of twenty factors classified under chapters of Culture, Leadership, Resources & Competence, and Processes, has been developed. The outcome of applying the new innovation analysis structure to the six cases has been compared to the succes of every com pany in creating growth streams. The findings and analysis of the data have led to identify the key factors and its distinctive characteristics contributing to success in the creation of innovation driven growth. lnterrelations and dependencies across factors are also observed and analyzed. lnsihts into the cases explaining the innovation practices and links to success are presented. An inductive process and the cross comparison of the cases, finally leads to the identification of an innovation system construct, defined as a top management process that proves to contribute to create new growth streams in LMTs in mature markets.
En el mon empresarial, la finalitat última de la innovació és generar un creixement rendible, no obstant, per a empreses de tecnología madura (LMTs) operant en marcats madurs, els esforcos d'innovació sovint resulten en el manteniment de la quota de mercat i poques vegades en la creació de fluxos de creixement. Aquesta Tesi doctoral pretén analitzar i entendre les practiques de gestió de la innovació que fan que les LMTs en mercats madurs tinguin éxit en la creació de creixement. Per introduir el tema, sobre la base d'una revisió de la literatura en temes relacionats, es proposa un marc conceptual que descriu l'entorn empresarial que influeix en el comportament innovador de les LMTs en els mercats madurs, contrastat amb les condicions en les que operen les empreses en entorns dinamics i de noves tecnologies. L'analisi de l'estat de l'art, basat en l'analisi de la literatura, indica que la recerca feta sobre el tema és escassa. Un constructe que expliqui la creació de creixement impulsat per la innovació en LMTs no ha estat formulat. Per recopilar coneixements sobre el tema investigat, una recerca qualitativa basada en un estudi multi-cas s'ha dut a terme. Els casos seleccionats són sis empres es LMT, operant en mercats madurs, amb seu a tres paisos europeus. La obtenció de dades ha estat principalment basada en entrevistes semi-estructurades a 28 directius de les sis empreses seleccionades. Per dur a terme la recerca, una nova estructura d'analisi de la gestió de la innovació , derivada de propostes existents, i desglossada en vint factors classificats en capítols de Cultura, Lideratge, Recursos i Competencia, i Processos ha estat creada. El resultat d'aplicar la nova estructura d'analisis als sis casos s'ha comparat amb l'éxit de cada empresa en la creació de fluxos de creixement. Les constatacions de fets i anàlisi de les dades, han permés identificar els factors clau i les seves característiques distintives que contribueixen a la creació de creixement impulsat per la innovació. També s'observen i analitzen les interrelacions i dependències entre factors. La tesi descriu les practiques d'innovació més rellevants dels casos i el seus vincles a l'éxit de la innovació. Un procés inductiu i la comparació transversal dels casos, finalment condueix a la identificació d'un constructe d'innovació, definit com un procés de gestió de l'alta direcció, que en base a l'estudi dels sis casos demostra contribuir a crear noves fonts de creixement en empreses de tecnologia madura operant en mercats madurs

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Morgan, Heather Dawn. "Industrial case study-driven innovative optimised engineering design." Thesis, Swansea University, 2015. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42659.

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Optimisation research is a vast and comprehensive field of study in academia, but its application to complex real life problems is much more limited. This thesis presents an exploration into the use of optimisation in the weight reduction problems of three industrial case studies. The work sought to find robust and practical solutions that could be exploited in the current commercial environment. The three case studies comprised the housing of a vertical axis wind turbine, a titanium jet engine lifting bracket and a casing for an aircraft cargo release system. The latter two were to be built using additive layer manufacture, while the housing, with initially no prescribed manufacturing method, was required to conform to British Standards for design. Based on commercially available optimisation and analysis packages e.g. Altair Optistruct, ANSYS, Microsoft Excel and MatLab, methodologies were developed to enable solutions to be found within realistic time-scales. Techniques to improve computational efficiency using the Kreisselmieier Steinhauser functions were also investigated. Good weight reduction was achieved in all cases. For the housing, a trend showing the relationship between the overall size of the housing and the material requirement was also developed. Extensive data for the lifting bracket was retrieved and analysed from a crowd-sourced design challenge. This highlighted important elements of design for additive layer manufacture and also gave an indication of the efficacy of different optimisation algorithms. The casing design methodology obtained simplified the material selection for the design. Build orientation software was developed to exploit the advantages of additive layer manufacture. The initial objective to solve the optimisation problems for all three case studies was accomplished using topology and size optimisation with both gradient-based and evolutionary methods. Data analysis and optimisation increased design capability for additive layer manufacture build and orientation.

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Talib, Tabassum Riaz &amp Kamran. "User Driven Innovation (Investigating the ways to involve users at local companies)." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2674.

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ABSTRACT Keywords: Users, Innovation, User driven innovation, Design, Mobile, Products/services, benefits. User driven innovation helps companies to compete in a global market by developing what the customers or end users want. So users are considered as a resource for companies developing mobile products/services because user driven innovation process is mainly carried out by the end users or user firms/partner companies. The companies perceive the needs and wishes of the users through their involvement in idea creation, design, development and feedback. Mobile companies involve users in their innovation process in different phases but they have no standard guidelines regarding which type of users to be involved in which phases of the innovation process. This thesis work is aimed at filling this research gap. Qualitative research methodology was used to carry on this research work. The literature review provided the current status of research in the problem domain. Then industrial and academic interviews were conducted on the basis of the findings of the literature review. Finally, a short survey was conducted in mobile companies to validate our findings from literature review and interviews. There are major four phases of the innovation process: Exploration, Idea creation, Idea selection and Commercialization. We identified four types of users to be involved in the innovation process i.e. Ordinary end users, corporate users/partner companies, and professional/expert users and lead users. Mobile companies should involve users in different innovation phases of the innovation process by using different methods like diary search, explorative interviews, workshops, market test and field tests. So it is beneficial to involve different types of users in phases of the innovation process by using different methods.

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Back, Linn, and Isabelle Landberg. "Culture as a Driver of Innovation Performance : A case study at the ASSA ABLOY Group." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-157316.

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Innovation has become increasingly important for organizations to sustain their competitive advantage. Among the factors frequently put forward as drivers of innovation are for instance innovation strategies, -processes, -tools, and –methods. Alongside these traditional managerial means, there is also explicit focus on innovation climate and –culture. Organizational culture has been proposed as a key factor in explaining innovation in firms, in particular in the light of high-performing and innovative firms such as Google and Apple. There is growing evidence implying that cultures supporting new-product development processes can foster innovative behaviors (Jassawalla and Sashittal, 2002). This supportive organizational culture can be defined as an innovation culture. Nevertheless, despite its apparent importance there is limited research investigating the relationship between innovation performance and organizational culture (McLean, 2005). This study aims to describe an innovation culture and the potential inter-relations there are between innovation culture and innovation performance. The study based on an extensive literature study within the area of organizational culture from where an analytical framework was developed including the following cultural factors, which are proclaimed to stimulate innovation; challenging work, collaboration, competition, empowerment, encourage change, freedom, innovation support, open communication, organizational encouragement and risk-taking. Moreover, a framework for measuring innovation performance was developed where the innovation performance was divided into four dimensions in the innovation process; Ideation, Ideation Output, Implementation and Output. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods for collecting data in terms of 38 interviews and 510 useful survey answers from 13 organizations. Results from the interviews were summarized and analyzed within-case and cross-case, while the survey results were analyzed with a regression analysis for uncovering potential relations between the cultural factors and innovation performance. Main findings from the study are the outcome from the regression analysis confirming five of the ten cultural factors to be significant for innovation performance; competition, encourage change , innovation support, organizational encouragement and risk-taking. Further the study confirms a few specific factors of the innovation culture that have higher impact on the innovation performance in specific dimensions than others. By clarifying inter-relationships between innovation performance in specific dimensions and different aspects of innovation culture, an identification of a deficient innovation performance dimension opens up for changes in the innovation culture, enabling to deploy supportive processes, procedures and roles to reach concrete output. Keywords: organizational culture, innovation culture, innovation performance
Innovation har blivit allt viktigare för att bibehålla företags konkurrenskraft. Bland de faktorer som ofta framförts som drivkraft för innovation återfinns till exempel innovationsstrategier, -processer, -verktyg och -metoder. Vid sidan av dessa traditionella metoder finns det också ett uttalat fokus på innovationsklimat och -kultur. Organisationskultur har fastslagits som en viktig faktor för att förklara innovation i företag, i synnerhet hos högpresterande och innovativa företag som Google och Apple. Det finns allt fler bevis som pekar på att företagskultur som stöder nya produktutvecklingsprocesser kan främja innovativa beteenden (Jassawalla och Sashittal, 2002). Denna stödjande organisationskultur kan definieras som en innovationskultur . Trots sin uppenbara betydelse finns det dock förhållandevis lite forskning som undersöker sambandet mellan innovation och organisationskultur (McLean, 2005). Denna studie syftar till att beskriva en innovationskultur, samt hitta de inbördes relationer finns mellan innovationskultur och innovation. Baserat på en omfattande litteraturstudie inom organisationskultur utvecklades ett analytiskt ramverk. Följande kulturella faktorer som påstås stimulera innovation inkluderades; utmanande arbete, samarbete, tävling, egenmakt, uppmuntran till förändring, frihet, innovationssupport, organisatorisk uppmuntran, öppen kommunikation, och risktagande. Dessutom utvecklades ett ramverk för att mäta innovationsprestanda där den delades upp enligt fyra faser i innovationsprocessen; Ideation, Ideation output, Implementation och Output. Studien är en fallstudie och använder sig av både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder för insamling av data i form av 38 intervjuer och 620 enkätsvar från 13 olika företag. Resultaten från intervjuerna sammanfattades och analyserades within-case och cross-case. Resultat från enkäten analyserades med en regressionsanalys för att hitta eventuella relationer mellan de kulturella faktorerna och innovationsprestandan. Betydande resultat från studien är bland annat resultatet från regressionsanalysen som bekräftar fem av de tio kulturella faktorer signifikanta för innovationsarbetet; tävling, uppmuntran till förändring, innovationssupport, organisatorisk uppmuntran och risktagande. Vidare bekräftar studien att vissa faktorer inom innovationskultur har större påverkan på innovationsprestandan i specifika faser än andra. Genom att klargöra sambanden mellan innovationsprestanda i specifika faser och olika aspekter av innovationskulturen, kan en identifiering av en bristfällig innovationsprestanda i en av faserna öppna upp för förändringar i innovationskulturen. Detta möjliggör implementering av stödjande processer, rutiner och roller för att nå konkreta resultat. Nyckelord: företagskultur, innovationskultur, innovationsprestanda

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Wang, Juanzi. "The Factors Affecting Individuals' Choice To Be Entrepreneur: A Comparison Between Efficiency-Driven Economies and Innovation-Driven Economies." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33377.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of institutional (environmental) factors and personal (attitude, human capital) factors on the probability of becoming an entrepreneur. In particular, this study aims to make a comparison between different types of economies. The data for this study is derived from the 2011 Adult Population Survey (APS), the 2011 National Expert Survey (NES) of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the World Bank Database, and covers 32 countries, including efficiency-driven economies and innovation-driven countries. This study applies hierarchical logistic regression and uses multilevel modeling for the cross-country, cross-individual dataset. The results reinforce the importance of environmental factors (regulative and normative), attitude factors, and human capital factors. The findings of this proposed study will contribute to the further analysis of the GEM database to understanding the diversity of nascent entrepreneurial activities in different contexts.

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Håkansson, Gustav, and David Grimling. "Innovation management in project-driven organizations : A case-study of a Swedish construction organization to analyze their innovation management." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447620.

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how innovation management practices are applied in project driven organizations with the aim to identify possible improvements. A case study has been conducted though a qualitative approach at the construction firm Peab. The research works around a theoretical framework with the result being generated through both a literature review and interviews. The results imply that project-driven organizations suffer hardships regarding several innovation management efforts. It becomes clear that knowledge management is vital in the process of capturing improvements in development throughout a project-based organization. Although using several practices during a project’s lifetime, the practices often lack the authority which reduce the quality. Furthermore, the thesis concludes that to improve the innovative culture at a project-driven organization there need to be strong support from upper management combined with an increased authority for the innovation management practices already present in the organization.

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Смоленніков, Денис Олегович, Денис Олегович Смоленников, Denys Olehovych Smolennikov, Людмила Сергіївна Захаркіна, Людмила Сергеевна Захаркина, Liudmyla Serhiivna Zakharkina, Юлія Олександрівна Мирошниченко, et al. "Efficiency of innovation activity funding as the driver of the state's national economic security (case of Ukraine)." Thesis, Economic Laboratory for Transition Research, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67683.

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The issue of economic security does not cease to be one of the priorities in forming macroeconomic policy of developing countries. This issue is particularly topical in the context of current challenges at the regional, European and global levels. One of the effective ways to increase economic security can be the innovative vector of economic development and the maximum application of scientific and innovative potential in all sectors of national economy. The study is devoted to the analysis of impact of innovative activity of enterprises on the level of economic security in the context of sustainable socio-economic development of the country.

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Davidsson, Mikael, and Andreas Gustafsson. "Designstudie av beställningsautomat : anpassad för drive through." Thesis, Mälardalen University, Department of Innovation, Design and Product Development, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-302.

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Rapporten Designstudie av beställningsautomat -anpassad för drive through- behandlar

arbetet från produktutveckling till modellframställning. Den uppgift som gruppen tagit sig an

gäller utveckling och design av en automat anpassad för användning i en drive through. Hela

arbetet är ett examensarbete inom Produkt och Processutveckling (kurskod: KN1060) vid

Institutionen för Design och Produktutveckling på Mälardalens högskola.

Produktutvecklingen gäller en automat anpassad för användning i en drive through, i

produktutvecklingen ingår val av material, produktionsmetod, utformning samt

konceptmodeller. Arbetet har utförts med en funktionsanalys och intervjuer som grund.

Utifrån dessa dokument har sedan flertalet koncept kunnat utvecklas. Med stöd av ett antal

utvecklingsverktyg har ett urval kunnat göras för att slutligen mynna ut i ett enda slutgiltigt

koncept.

Jämförelser och urval av koncept har genomförts med hjälp av ett antal utvecklingsverktyg;

QFD-analys (Quality Function Deployment), FMEA-analys (Failure Mode Effect Analysis)

och Pugh-matris. Dessa verktyg har även varit till stor hjälp när det kom till att kvalitetssäkra

arbetet. Under arbetets gång har en nära dialog med handledare förts för att säkerställa att

arbetsprocessen flutit i rätt riktning.

Resultatet av detta arbete blev en modell i skala 1:4 som visar vilket utseende automaten får

och vilka funktioner den kan ha. Modellen visar inte hur programvaran kommer att fungera.

Den andra delen av resultatet är själva arbetet i sig som visar på hur produkten kan förenkla

beställningen för användaren samt avlasta restaurangpersonalens arbete.

För fortsatt arbete med detta projekt bör ytterligare undersökningar och djupare

konstruktionsarbete genomföras. I det djupare konstruktionsarbetet bör elektronikkonstruktion

tas med i beräkningarna. Det bör också läggas ner mycket tid på att utveckla programvaran så

att den underlättar beställningar för såväl restaurangkund som personal.

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Akhlaghpour, Saeed. "Three essays on institutional and discursive drivers of information technology innovation diffusion." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121273.

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This dissertation features three essays that constitute an integrative and multi-perspective investigation of organizational IT innovation diffusion. My proposed research builds upon diverse bodies of literature in IS, organization theory, and social movement, for proposing novel IT innovation models and theories. In particular, the studies in this dissertation take into account non-relational mechanisms of diffusion, i.e., theorization and framing, as well as normative and symbolic drivers of IT adoption decision. The three essays are situated as follows: The first essay examines the IT diffusion phenomenon from the adopters' point of view. It seeks to conciliate a number of seemingly paradoxical arguments applicable to explaining the diffusion of IT management techniques. Taking the specific case of the Capability Maturity Model diffusion into account, the paper applies a multi-perspective approach to examining the diffusion process. This research contributes to the IS field by (a) illustrating how several different theoretical perspectives (i.e., the efficient choice, forced-selection, fashion, and fad) can be used to explain the diffusion of an IT innovation, (b) identifying the specific limitations of each perspective, and (c) demonstrating how these competing perspectives can be consolidated and yield a holistic understanding of the IT innovation diffusion trajectory.The second essay is a theory-generative research synthesis. Through a review and synthesis of literature in IS and reference disciplines, a typological theory of IT innovation adoption is proposed. The theory identifies and thoroughly explains four ideal types (holistic configurations) of IT adoption, namely, IT adoption for efficiency increment, IT adoption for organizational transformation, IT adoption for compliance, and IT adoption for prestige. This theory aims at resolving a number of inconsistencies found in extant literature. It also sheds light on distinctive characteristics of IT innovation, and adds to its conceptual clarity. The third essay investigates the processes behind the social construction and diffusion of popular IT innovation waves (aka, IT fashions), and proposes a theory of IT fashion entrepreneurship. This essay is based on the argument that for a successful diffusion of an IT innovation, it has to be accompanied by a powerful rhetorical component. The role of this component is to inspire and provide legitimacy for the adoption decisions – despite all uncertainties regarding the actual realized benefits. Using an analysis of discourse associated with the rise of Enterprise 2.0 as a popular IT innovation concept, this essay generates a theory on how these rhetorical components are constructed by IT fashion entrepreneurs. Overall, the studies in this dissertation seek to go beyond the current dominant paradigm in IT diffusion stream of research, by focusing on under-explored mechanisms of IT innovation diffusion. The findings of the studies provide theoretical and pragmatic contributions for the IS field, as well as practical contributions for managers and IT vendors.
Cette thèse présente trois essais qui constituent une étude intégrative, multi-perspective et multi-méthode sur la diffusion des innovations organisationnelles en technologies de l'information (TI). Mon projet de recherche s'appuie sur diverses théories des organisations et des mouvements sociaux afin de proposer de nouveaux modèles d'innovation en TI et de suggérer certains développements théoriques. Plus particulièrement, les études qui forment cette thèse tiennent compte des mécanismes non-relationnels de diffusion, c.-à-d. théorisation et de framing, ainsi que des tenants normatifs et symboliques d'adoption de décision en TI. Les trois essais sont présentés comme suit:Le premier essai examine le phénomène de diffusion des TIs du point de vue des adoptants. Il cherche à concilier un certain nombre d'arguments en apparence paradoxaux qui visent à expliquer la diffusion des techniques de gestion des TI. En prenant le cas spécifique de la diffusion du « Capability Maturity Model », cette étude adopte une approche multi-perspective pour examiner le processus de diffusion. Cette recherche contribue au domaine des TI en (a) illustrant la façon dont plusieurs perspectives théoriques différentes (c.à.d, le choix efficace, la sélection forcée, la mode, et le fad) peuvent être utilisés pour expliquer la diffusion d'une innovation IT, (b) identifiant les limitations spécifiques de chaque point de vue, et (c) démontrant comment chacun de ces points de vue divergents peuvent être consolidés afin de donner une compréhension plus holistique de la diffusion de l'innovation informatique.Le deuxième essai propose une synthèse de la recherche sur l'innovation en TI., visant à proposer de nouveaux apports théoriques. Grâce à un examen et une synthèse de la littérature en TI et disciplines de référence, une théorie typologique de l'adoption de l'innovation IT est proposée. La théorie identifie et explique en détail les quatre types idéaux (configurations globales) de l'adoption des TI, particulièrement en ce qui a trait à l'adoption des TI pour l'augmentation de l'efficacité, la transformation organisationnelle, la conformité et le prestige. Le cadre théorique proposé vise à résoudre un certain nombre d'incohérences trouvées dans la littérature existante. Il met également en lumière des caractéristiques distinctives de l'innovation en TI, en ajoutant à sa clarté conceptuelle.Le troisième essai présente une étude des processus de la construction sociale et la diffusion d'innovations populairess de TI (IT fashion ) et propose une théorie de l'entrepreneuriat dans ce domaine. Cet essai se base sur l'argument selon lequel une bonne diffusion de l'innovation en TI doit être accompagnée d'une rhétorique puissante. Le rôle de cette rhétorique est d'inspirer et de donner une légitimité aux décisions d'adoption - malgré toutes les incertitudes concernant les bénéfices réels réalisés. En utilisant une analyse du discours sur un concept d'innovation TI populaire, à savoir la diffusion de Entreprise 2.0, cet essai génère une théorie sur la manière dont ces éléments rhétoriques sont construits et utiisés par des entrepreneurs en « IT fashion ».Globalement, les études de cette thèse visent à dépasser le paradigme dominant actuel dans le domaine de la recherche sur la diffusion des TI en mettant l'accent sur des aspects et mécanismes sous-explorés dans la recherche existante. Les conclusions de ces études fournissent des contributions théoriques et pragmatiques pour la recherche en TI, ainsi que des contributions pratiques pour les gestionnaires, les fournisseurs et les consultants en TI.

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Liew, Shirlene Nepacina. "Digital health in Singapore : building an ecosystem conducive for innovation-driven enterprises." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105313.

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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2015.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-115).
Healthcare is undergoing a digital revolution. In Singapore, business-friendly policies, strong information technology capabilities, and a world-class healthcare system seem to provide the necessary ingredients for digital health businesses to thrive. However, the depth of digital health start-up activities still pales in comparison with more mature ecosystems like Boston. Some challenges of the digital health sector include requiring an understanding of a wide set of stakeholders, facilitating cross-disciplinary innovation across patient care and digital technologies, and propagating innovation in hospital environments. The digital health innovation-driven enterprises ecosystem in Singapore is explored through an in-depth analysis of Singapore hospitals as a key stakeholder and an assessment of healthcare hackathons' suitability in addressing the present gaps. A set of recommendations are presented that could help to promote activities conducive to digital healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore, which include extending key stakeholders' networks as well as enhancing access to key human resources and mentoring during the early stages of start-up formation.
by Shirlene Nepacina Liew.
S.M. in Engineering and Management

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