Die Entwicklung neuer Produkte stellt hohe und potenziell konfliktionäre Anforderungen an die Koordination von Innovationsvorhaben. Die empirische Untersuchung von Christoph Stockstrom zeigt, dass solche Planungsprozesse besonders erfolgswirksam sind, denen es neben formalen Aspekten gelingt,...

Die Verwendung innovativer Analogien ermöglicht es, Wissen aus verschiedenen Gebieten zusammen zu führen, um kreative Probleme zu lösen und damit die Innovationsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens zu steigern. Katharina Kalogerakis stellt ein systematisches Vorgehensmodell zur Anwendung innovativer...

Einleitung, Anlass und Erkenntnisinteresse -- Forschungsansatz bei der Analyse des Untersuchungsgegenstands -- Relevanz des Themas -- Relevante Definitionen und Grundlagen zu Forschung & Entwicklung mechatronischer Produkte -- Controlling in Forschung & Entwicklung -- Theoretische Hintergründe...

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of...

Florian Denker explores the role of an individual’s domain knowledge for the proficient evaluation of early-stage new product ideas in the front-end of innovation. The results of his study show that in order to ensure an effective evaluation, evaluators of early-stage new product ideas should...

Alexander Sänn presents a functional method based on lead user method, preference measurement, and recommendations using collaborative filtering. The introduced method in this book stimulates input from internal and external sources, predicts basic customers’ acceptance, and evaluates this...

Malte Marwede explores the impact of cognitive distance in product development, in particular whether large distances between developers and the customer target groups adversely affect the creation of customer-centric product ideas. Furthermore, he shows how practical user involvement measures...

Nils Levsen focuses on the international diffusion of product and service innovations for elderly users. In particular, the existence and location of lead markets is being investigated. Lead markets are characterized by their early adoption of innovations and their influence on design choice in...

Timo Weyrauch untersucht, welche Kriterien eine frugale Innnovation definieren und wie frugale Innovationen entwickelt werden können. Im ersten Teil der Untersuchung werden auf Basis eines Literaturreviews sowie einer qualitativen Befragung drei Kriterien entwickelt, um frugale von...