Dissertations / Theses: 'Innovative Form'

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DHRAMI, Kejt. "Re-inventing zoning through operational morphology Innovative form-based codes for efficient territorial subdivisions and enhanced normativity in complex urban systems." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2488217.

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Questa ricerca si concentra sullo studio e l'analisi della suddivisione in zone, codici basati sulla forma e altre metodologie in cui i territori urbani possono essere suddivisi in unità strutturali gestibili, zone in cui è possibile soddisfare specifici criteri di sostenibilità quantitativi e qualitativi. La tesi cerca a costruire una base teorica e pratica su come lavorare a livello di unità con i territori municipali di oggi, data la loro struttura spaziale e altri indici morfologici. La premessa di questa ricerca è la crescente complessità della gestione del territorio nei comuni in Europa (con particolare attenzione all'Albania), che ha esteso la portata della pianificazione a un approccio integrato e compressivo. Pertanto, le questioni relative alla normatività, alla designazione di indicatori di sviluppo del territorio e alla suddivisione in zone sono più rilevanti nella pratica di pianificazione territoriale. Le realtà urbane più complesse, come le città in Albania, dove è difficile trovare l'omogeneità, richiedono un'analisi più completa della forma, della struttura, delle caratteristiche della città, per determinare la forma più avanzata di divisione in unità strutturali. Pertanto, questa ricerca si basa su una varietà di casi studio e approcci teorici sulla suddivisione in zone di codici basati su moduli; da un ampio pool di tipologie spaziali; e dall'intensa ricerca sulla normatività e gli standard di sviluppo, per simulare gli indici per "un modello unificato di sviluppo del territorio" per scenari urbani complessi. This research is focused on studying and analyzing zoning, form-based codes and other methodologies into which urban territories can be divided into manageable structural units, i.e. zones in which specific quantitative and qualitative sustainability criteria can be met. It aims to build a theoretical and practical foundation on how to work at a unit-level with today’s municipal territories, given their spatial structure and other morphological indices. The premise of this research is the growing complexity of land management in municipalities in Europe (with a focus on Albania), which have extended the scope of planning to an integrated, comprehensive approach. Therefore, the issues of normativity, appointing indicators of land development, and zoning are most relevant in today’s planning practice. Nevertheless, more complex urban realities, like cities in Albania, where homogeneity is difficult to find, call for a more comprehensive analysis of city form, structure, characteristics, to determine the most enhanced form of division into structural units. Therefore, this research draws from a variety of case studies and theoretical approaches on zoning, form-based codes; from a wide pool of spatial typologies; and from intense research into normativity and development standards, to simulate the indices for ‘a unified model of land development’ for such complex scenarios. Aside from the legal/institutional and practical understanding of the above-mentioned concepts, the thesis operationalizes these findings as anchored to theoretical studies on city form, as well as practices of spatial analysis. This unusual ‘pairing’ is done in order to demystify the ‘rigidity’ of normativity through integrating concepts of operational morphology and to facilitate the process of division and scanning of the territory per se, through these advanced tools of spatial analysis. This constitutes a step forward into reducing the gap between morphological theory and practice. The research is divided into 4 main pillars, which address (1) zoning and form-based codes; (2) normativity and land management; (3) spatial typologies; and (4) urban form and spatial analysis. These components stand almost divided into a theoretical review but are integrated throughout the research through the selected case studies. The final aim is to support the development of a unified model of form-based codification for spatial typologies, considering enhanced development standards, liveability and place-making, in terms of land management

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Niopek, Daniel [Verfasser], Bernhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Hensel, and Bernhard [Gutachter] Hensel. "Innovative Form- und Fügetechniken für biologisches Gewebe zur Fertigung nahtloser Transkatheter-Aortenklappenprothesen / Daniel Niopek ; Gutachter: Bernhard Hensel ; Betreuer: Bernhard Hensel." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2021. http://d-nb.info/1225557933/34.

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Khachan, Lucie G. "Form and Function of Northeast Ohio Mosques." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1217274201.

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Oderstad, Hampus. "Innovativ vidareutveckling av kockkniv." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-25762.

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Drobnis, David S. "Implementing innovation in real estate development : co-living as an innovative product." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120656.

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Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2018. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-61). The real estate industry is very conservative and risk averse, yet innovation is critical to its long term viability. While innovation does occur in real estate development, it is often discouraged and not the standard approach. This thesis focuses on understanding the motivations and obstacles facing real estate developers who decide to pursue innovative products, processes and systems. The study explores the challenges of developing co-living, a recent innovative real estate product in order to understand why this product is taking off across the country, and how it has been implemented in Boston and New York City. Insight into the innovation processes are derived from site visits and multiple interviews with professionals from different sectors of real estate: developers, consultants and regulatory authorities. The thesis concludes by describing five principles of innovative real estate development, relating to: Market Demand, Vision, Adoption, External Forces and X-Factors. While these principles are derived from experience in creating co-living projects, they are illustrative and important for the innovation process in all types of real estate products. by David S. Drobnis. S.M. in Real Estate Development

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Mouzakitis, Alexandros. "Innovative solutions for automotive embedded software development : innovation report." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/93362/.

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Embedded software is shaping and influencing our world and it is unimaginable to realise day to day life without it. Since the introduction of the first Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in the 1970s, the automotive industry has seen a substantial increase of embedded software in vehicles. The use of embedded software in the automotive industry has led to a significant increase in the number and complexity of different vehicle systems, features and functions. This level of complexity drives premium vehicles with no fewer than 70 ECUs interconnected by more than five on-board network systems such as Controller Area Network (CAN), Local Interconnect Network (LIN), Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST), FlexRay and Ethernet. In a typical automotive development process, the main challenge for the engineers is to uncover as many failure modes and/or software defects as possible during the early stages of the vehicle programme. During the early phases of the development, failure modes and/or software defects are difficult to uncover but easy and inexpensive to fix. During the latter phases of the development, failure modes and/or software defects are easy to uncover since the final product has been built. At this stage, failure modes and/or software defects are hard and expensive to fix as changes required in the embedded software. The aim of this research was to develop and deploy innovative solutions in order to shift failure modes and/or software defects detection early in automotive product development. The initial research work was conducted through an analysis of failure modes and/or software defects found during a typical Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) vehicle programme development. This preliminary work also then focused on supplier base capability for automotive embedded software development. The research findings from the internal and external analysis, together with the literature review on best practice have driven the development of four solutions. A process called Model-based Product Engineering (MBPE) was created and deployed within JLR. The MBPE process brings together model-based development and other development processes in a standardised form. A new generic Design Verification Interface (DVI) for test exchange and traceability across all MBPE process levels was developed. The generic DVI eliminates or reduces redundant efforts of re-writing test cases and test scripts for automated testing. A semi-formal Standardised Design Verification Method (SDVM) was developed for defining test cases for all vehicle systems in a common template. The SDVM presents test cases as machine readable data and allows auto-generation of test scripts suitable for automated testing. An end-to-end solution called Platform Independent Test System was developed in order to integrate the MBPE, DVI and SDVM solutions. The proposed PITS supports all levels of system abstraction from the test case definition phase to the execution of automated scripts in both offline and real-time test environments. Evaluation results have demonstrated a significant shift in the detection of failure modes and/or software defects towards the early phases of the product development. An early detection of more than 50% of failure modes and/or software defects was achieved. This is a substantial change from the previous state where embedded software validation was conducted only after supplier software release. Furthermore, results have shown a 40% reduction in engineering effort for test scripts creation and a five to tenfold reduction in engineering time for automated testing.

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Zanutto, Sara <1991&gt. "INNOVATING WITH COMPETENCIES Behavioral competencies for developing innovative successful products." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7684.

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The capability to innovate is fundamental for companies that want to stay competitive in the market maintaining their profit. Many factors influence the innovative potential of NPD teams. Can Emotional and Social Competencies increase the capability of innovating and developing new successful products? This paper aims at answering this crucial question. In the first part different definitions of innovation are provided and categories in which innovation is classified are further expounded. After having pointed out that the focus is on product innovation, the concept of Open Innovation is analyzed together with Stage-Gate NPD process and the different kind of NPD teams. In the second part the focus of the discussion is on the Emotional and Social Competency expounding the results of different studies on this subject. The codebook developed by Boyatzis in 1982 integrated by the competencies of the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory is in particular examined being the starting point for the empirical study. In the third part the methodology adopted in this empirical study is described in all its phases. In particular, Behaviour Events Interviews were conducted in order to find competencies that team members demonstrated during the NPD process whereas a Repertory Grid has been created in order to classify them in best performers and average/poor performers. The gathered data are studied in the fourth part in which the link between team members’ competencies and their performance during the NPD process is analysed, showing how Social and Emotional competencies actually influenced the capability to innovate and to developed successful new products.

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Valadares, Rodrigo Lemos. "Ambientes organizacionais potencializadores de inovações em bases sistemáticas: estudo de caso do hospital Jorge Valente." Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2008. http://www.adm.ufba.br/sites/default/files/publicacao/arquivo/rodrigo_lemos_valadares.pdf.

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p. 1 - 228 Submitted by Santiago Fabio (fabio.ssantiago@hotmail.com) on 2013-01-22T18:21:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 33333.pdf: 1148951 bytes, checksum: 7fa9101fcd08c542f9c9e7df1c2e0b2f (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-01-22T18:21:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 33333.pdf: 1148951 bytes, checksum: 7fa9101fcd08c542f9c9e7df1c2e0b2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 A inovação é um fator crítico para a obtenção de vantagem competitiva, o que pressupõe que o crescimento econômico de países e organizações depende diretamente do grau de inovação concebidas e executadas por estes. Diante de tal importância, inúmeras pesquisas, como o Manual de Oslo e o Manual Frascati, ambos idealizados pela OCDE, e no Brasil, a ANPEI e a PINTEC apresentam metodologias para medir o grau de inovação dos países e de suas empresas. Entretanto, os processos inovativos são altamente sistêmicos e complexos, variam conforme o tipo de tecnologia e o tamanho das firmas/instituições, caracterizando-se pela extrema dificuldade de serem medidos. Neste contexto, este trabalho objetivou verificar os fatores fomentadores de inovações em bases sistemáticas que compõem o ambiente organizacional do Hospital Jorge Valente, instalado em Salvador-Ba. A inovação analisada foi o processo de concepção, execução e implantação do Planejamento Estratégico de Tecnologia da Informação do Hospital Jorge Valente. Sob a guia do embasamento teórico, foram estudados os conceitos acerca da inovação, das organizações inovadoras, das metodologias de mensuração de inovações e do Sistema Nacional de Inovação. O estudo empírico executado no Hospital Jorge Valente se dividiu em duas etapas. Na primeira etapa foi realizada uma análise profunda da empresa a fim de descrever detalhadamente a inovação “Planejamento Estratégico de Tecnologia da Informação” (PETI), levantar os acontecimentos históricos responsáveis pela construção de um ambiente inovador, resultando na elaboração da linha do tempo da organização. Para a segunda etapa, descritiva e quantitativa, foram aplicados os questionários de Análise das Dimensões e Fatores de Inovação e o Minnesota Innovation Survey (MIS), em um grupo de 19 pessoas. A metodologia utilizada para realização desta pesquisa foi desenvolvida pelo Fórum de Inovação FGV/Eaesp, e tem na sua essência a realização de estudos de casos de organizações inovadoras. As conclusões deste trabalho confirmam que o Hospital Jorge Valente apresenta os fatores que caracterizam uma organização inovadora, e que estes fatores, por sua vez, são potencializadores de inovações em bases sistemáticas. Constatou-se também que os resultados da inovação “Planejamento Estratégico de Tecnologia da Informação” (PETI) vêm proporcionando o aperfeiçoamento da organização em todos os seus aspectos e, portanto, realimentam o processo de inovação e a obtenção de novos resultados. Salvador

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Burman, Anna-Karin. "An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24265.

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This small study concerns occurrences of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the Old English poem Beowulf. The first 224 lines of Beowulf were searched for non-literal passages. Thefound passages were sorted into the groups conventionalized metaphor, metonymy and innovativemetaphor. The conceptual metaphors were in turn sorted into target domains and source domains and grouped within the domains. These were then compared to Modern English and Modern Swedish metaphors and conceptual metaphors with the help of dictionaries and corpus studies. Beowulf was also looked at as a small corpus. Words which were suspected to be used inmetaphorical senses were searched for in the full text and the results were examined and comparedwith modern language usage. It was found evident that Old English and Modern English, as well as Modern Swedish, have many conceptual metaphors in common both when in comes to experiential metaphors and culturally grounded metaphors.

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Zundel, Bryan Christopher. "Explore, develop, innovate!: urban development for innovation economies." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15689.

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Master of Landscape Architecture Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning Jason Brody Some cities target innovation to bolster their economy, because it drives economic growth. An emerging trend is to use urban regeneration to accomplish this desire. However, lack of understanding about land development effects on innovation is a major concern. Such uncertainty makes it difficult to create visions, plans, and designs for these environments. A major dilemma presents itself. In what way do urban designers develop innovation economies and what confidence can they have in those roles considering the lack of evidence about urban sites within larger innovation systems? In response to the dilemma, this research documents projects facilitating innovation in local economies. A catalog was the tool for exploring characteristics of these places and their connections to economic systems. The catalog acts as a decision framework by displaying these relationships through a goal, objective, and tactic hierarchy. This format illustrates how site-level decisions impact specific parts of the economy. By using the catalog, planners and designers may guide innovation through urban development. To accomplish this, developments must draw talented people with creative ideas and organizations willing to invest in those ideas. When synergies form between these groups, new goods and services become available. To build this innovative milieu, planners and designers EXPLORE regional and site-based opportunities to determine the tactics they utilize. Next, they DEVELOP plans for the places desired by and required for people who INNOVATE. These findings collectively instill confidence in the roles of planners and designers in their quest to cultivate innovative environments.

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Lindblom, Sofie. "A framework for disruptive innovation in an industry where everything is innovative." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-121681.

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This master thesis is written as a part of The Media Technology program at Linköping University in collaboration with the streaming music company Spotify. The thesis investigates how a software company in the modern age effectively and organically can stay innovative through times. The thesis maps out strategies, models and methods currently known, analyses Spotifys innovative efforts over the past year and suggests a framework tailored to the needs of the company.

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Na, Jea Hoo. "A study of design innovation framework for innovative manufacturing companies in the UK." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/12776.

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The importance of design to enhance innovation in businesses has gradually diversified with the expansion of the meaning and influences of design, and is now regarded as a critical strategic tool to increase commercial competitiveness and sustainable growth in a complex global market. Concurrently, the importance of embracing the extensive scope of innovation - including technological, product/service, process and organisational innovation - in businesses, especially in manufacturing companies, has been identified by scholars, industry bodies and the government as a way to avoid the ‘locked-in’ effect of existing technology and a business model which could hinder competitiveness. In this context, innovative manufacturing is regarded as an enabler for developing advanced and high-value manufacturing, which are considered as being of strategic importance in achieving the UK’s global competitiveness and economic balance. The research, however, identified a relatively narrow view and use of design in innovative manufacturing, limiting the potential benefits of ‘designing’, ‘design strategy’ and ‘corporate-level design thinking’ to systematically enhance the extensive scope of innovation. The research therefore aims to create a design innovation framework to provide a comprehensive overview of design innovation actions and influences for UK innovative manufacturing companies to further improve innovativeness. The research consists of three phases: (i) the exploration phase, which explores the expanding role of design and innovation, and the context of UK innovative manufacturing, (ii) the development phase, which establishes the relationship between design and innovation in the business context, and discovering the design innovation characteristics which form the design innovation framework and its implementation process, and (iii) the evaluation phase which identifies the adaptability and usefulness of the framework in the innovative manufacturing context. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used, including a questionnaire survey (n=48), in-depth interviews with academics and industrial experts in manufacturing and design innovation (n=36), and case-studies of UK innovative manufacturing companies (n=46). The research identified twenty design innovation characteristics with six main benefits including: (i) problem/opportunity identification, (ii) extensive collaboration, (iii) clear communication, (iv) innovative product and service development, (v) effective process development, and (vi) work culture and environment improvement. The design innovation framework and implementation process recommended by the research therefore provide a comprehensive overview of the influence of design innovation to achieve creative idea generation, optimise the business environment, and successful commercialisation which enables the improved product/service, process and organisational innovativeness of UK innovative manufacturing companies.

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Habtay, Solomon Russom. "Enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation : utilising complexity thinking for innovative strategic management." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53407.

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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the new economy, many industries - more specifically those that can be replaced electronically - are generally believed to be in peril of strategic inflection points. Scrutiny of available researches on the drivers of discontinuity indicates that some strategic inflection points can be foreseen, but many cannot be anticipated, because initially inflection points emerge very small, and can often be missed, but then they suddenly strike hard without warning. A strategic point of inflection occurs when existing ways of doing business and industry structure subtly but profoundly change. This study proposed to review the application of the complexity theory to strategic management for enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation. The study describes a couple-phased complexity approach for enabling industry inflection. The first phase starts by building organisational fitness through designing complex adaptive systems, internal to the organisation, and nurturing healthy co-evolution with external key players. The application of "communities of practice" into complex adaptive systems of organisational design is demonstrated as an essential means to drive the organization to the edge of chaos through which new businesses may evolve that can potentially trigger an inflection point. The co-evolutionary approach is explained as a process to develop patterns of co-adaptation with key players, whereby co-adapters collaborate to adapt effectively, although they still remain free to compete for a prime-movers hip position. This is hypothetically postulated to be space transition at the edge of chaos at the socio-cultural business system level, where active members, driven by the moving self-organization, engage in exploratory dialogue to explore space possibilities for systemic innovations. The second phase is described in four strategic stages for enabling industry inflection and corporate innovation. The strategic inflection point begins with a definition of a customer value proposition. This leads to the co-experimentation stage where co-creators jointly experiment with diverse new business models comprising a variety of customer value propositions that appeal to different segments. The success of new business model may cause industry inflection, subsequently leading to the third stage where the inflection point creates uncertainty to both the co-creators and their competitors, because the final success of a proactive strategic inflection point depends on the market dynamics. The salient conclusion of this study is that the complexity theory does not guarantee the complete success of a proactive strategy for enabling industry inflection. An inflection point can barely result from a deliberate strategic process only. Neither is a strategic inflection point a function of perfectly unexplainable market factors. Recommendations have been provided for further research to address, among others, the conceptual gap between the scientific analysis and the non-linear assumption of the complexity theory. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar word in die hedendaagse ekonomie algemeen aanvaar dat baie nywerhede - in die besonder dié wat elektronies vervang kan word - gevaar loop van strategiese invalspunte. Noukeurige ondersoek van beskikbare navorsing oor die aanvoorders van diskontinuïteit dui daarop dat sommige strategiese invalspunte verwag kan word, maar baie kan nie geantisipeer word nie, aangesien invalspunte aanvanklik baie klein voorkom, en dan dikwels misgekyk kan word, maar dan slaan hulle vinnig toe, sonder waarskuwing. 'n Strategiese invalspunt kom voor wanneer bestaande maniere van sake doen en die struktuur van die industrie subtiel, maar wesenlik verander. Met hierdie navorsing is beoog om 'n oorsig te kry van die toepassing van die kompleksiteitsteorie op strategiese bestuur ten einde geleentheid te verskaf vir industrieinfleksie en korporatiewe innovering. Die navorsing beskryf 'n aantal gefaseerde kompleksiteitsbenaderings om industrie-infleksie aan te help. Die eerste fase begin met die opbou van organisatoriese geskiktheid deur die ontwerp van komplekse aanpasbaarheidstelsels wat intern aan die organisasie is en deur die kweek van gesonde koevolusie met eksterne sleutelrolspelers. Die toepassing van "algemeen aanvaarde praktyk" in komplekse aanpasbaarheidstelsels van organisatoriese ontwerp word gedemonstreer as 'n essensiële middelom die organisasie tot op die rand van chaos te dryf waardeur nuwe ondernemings kan ontwikkel wat moontlik 'n invalspunt kan veroorsaak. Die ko-evolusionêre benadering word verduidelik as 'n proses om patrone vir ko-adaptasie met sleutelrolspelers te ontwikkel, waardeur medebewerkers saamwerk om doeltreffend aan te pas, alhoewel hulle steeds vry is om vir 'n posisie as hoofkragbron mee te ding. Daar word hipoteties gepostuleer dat dit paradigmatiese oorgang op die rand van chaos op die sosiokulturele sakevlak is, waar aktiewe lede, gedryf deur die vinnig bewegende self-organisasie, betrokke raak by verkennende dialoog om die paradigmatiese moontlikhede vir sistemiese innovering te verken. Die tweede fase word in vier strategiese stadia beskryf om industrie-infleksie en korporatiewe innovering moontlik te maak. Die strategiese invalspunt begin met 'n definisie van 'n aanbieding van kliëntwaarde. Dit lei tot die ko-eksperimentele stadium waar medeskeppers gesamentlik eksperimenteer met diverse nuwe sakemodelle wat bestaan uit variasies op aanbiedings van kliëntwaarde wat vir verskillende segmente aanloklik is. Die sukses van 'n nuwe sakemodel kan moontlik industrie-infleksie veroorsaak, wat dan lei tot die derde stadium waar die invalspunt onsekerheid skep vir die medeskeppers en hulle mededingers, aangesien die finale sukses van 'n proaktiewe strategiese invalspunt van die markdinamiek afhanklik is. Die belangrikste gevolgtrekking na aanleiding van hierdie navorsmg IS dat die kompleksiteitsteorie nie die algehele sukses van 'n proaktiewe strategie verseker om industrie-infleksie te bemagtig nie. 'n Invalspunt kan beswaarlik slegs uit 'n doelbewuste industrie-infleksie voortspruit. Die strategiese invalspunt is ook nie 'n funksie van volkome onverklaarbare markfaktore nie. Aanbevelings word gemaak vir verdere navorsing wat aandag kan gee aan, onder andere, die konseptueie gaping tussen die wetenskaplike analise en die nie-lineêre aanname van die kompleksiteitsteorie.

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Fernholz, Olga. "Innovating for today while innovating for tomorrow : a test of innovation ambidexterity theory in a leading technology company." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/54947/.

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The theory of ambidextrous organisation in management and organisational studies latches onto the idea of simultaneous and equally high degrees of incremental innovation based on prior knowledge (exploitation) and discontinuous innovation based on experimentation and new knowledge (exploration). It claims that any organisation should be ambidextrous to succeed long term. This thesis research puts ambidexterity theory to test. Using the logic of falsification, I conduct an exploratory case study of the semiconductor IP designing company ARM to tests whether the central claims of ambidexterity apply in the empirical context of this successful technological company. The ARM is a leading-edge innovator and a successful company by any common sense criteria. I find that ARM used and banned the ambidexterity rationale because its underlying assumptions misrepresent the interactions between ARM and its Partners in the process of innovation across its vast Ecosystem. I find that ambidexterity assumptions break down in the context of the Ecosystem. Ambidexterity theory displays some serious limitations when applied to the company's innovation in System-on-a-Chip technology that powers ubiquitous computing and assembles an Ecosystem of Partners. The revealed limitations of ambidexterity thinking demand to reconsider the claim of ambidexterity's universal value and to reassess the fitness of ambidexterity assumptions for explaining innovation in the technology of the future.

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Achouri, Djamila. "Formes pharmaceutiques innovantes destinées à une administration oculaire." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM5501.

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Dans le contexte du traitement du kératocône, une formulation contenant de la riboflavine, un principe actif hydrosoluble, deux tensio-actifs (le poloxamère 407 et la monooléine) et de l'eau a été préparée par un processus d'homogénéisation. Un plan factoriel fractionnaire a été utilisé pour estimer les effets principaux et les interactions de cinq paramètres sur deux réponses pertinentes, à savoir la taille des particules et l'efficacité d'encapsulation. Les cinq paramètres étudiés étaient la température des deux phases, la durée de l'émulsification, la présence du chauffage pendant l'homogénéisation, le nombre de cycles et la pression. Il a ainsi été montré que les paramètres les plus influents sont la présence du chauffage pendant l'homogénéisation et la pression qui ont conduit à l'obtention de nanoparticules d'une taille moyenne de 145 nm et une efficacité d'encapsulation moyenne de 46%. La détermination des paramètres optimaux du procédé de fabrication a conduit à l'optimisation de la formulation par le biais de plans d'expériences. L'influence combinée de trois composants a été étudiée dans une partie du diagramme de phase. Ainsi, douze formules décrivant l'espace de conception ont été préparées. Les résultats obtenus par diffraction des rayons X aux petits angles et par cryo-microscopie électronique en transmission ont mis en évidence la présence de nano-objets de structure éponge et/ou hexagonale inverse. Le pourcentage de chacun des composants a été déterminé pour obtenir à la fois une grande efficacité d'encapsulation et une petite taille de particules. Deux formulations très proches dans le diagramme de phase ternaire, ont répondu à ces exigences In the context of the keratoconus treatment, a formulation containing riboflavin a water-soluble drug, two surfactants (poloxamer 407 and mono acyl glycerol) and water was optimized and prepared by emulsification and a homogenization process. A fractional factorial design was applied to estimate the main effects and interaction effects of five parameters on two relevant responses, namely particle size and encapsulation efﬁciency. The five parameters studied were the temperature of the two phases, the duration of emulsification, the presence of heating during homogenization, the number of passes and pressure. It has been shown that the most influent parameters are the presence of heating during the homogenization and the pressure that led to the production of nanoparticles with an average size of 145 nm and an average encapsulation efﬁciency of 46 %. The determination of the optimal parameters of the process led to an optimization of the formulation by using experimental design. The combined inﬂuence of three factor variables (or components) of the formulation that are water, monoolein and poloxamer 407 were, studied. In this way, twelve formulas describing the design space were prepared. Results obtained using SAXS and cryo-TEM evidenced the presence of nano-objects with either sponge or hexagonal inverted structure. In the zone of interest, the percentage of each component was determined to obtain both high encapsulation efficiency and small size of particles. Two formulations are very close in the ternary phase diagram, and have responded to these requirements

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Casarin, Veronica. "Controlling innovation, innovating control : accounting for innovation in the field of university-industry interrelations in the UK." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/92517/.

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The thesis examines the role of accounting in configuring innovation as the driver of economic progress in modern Britain. Set against a context of changing governmental rationalities and greater attention of economic theory upon issues of R&D productivity, University-Industry interrelations have come to represent, since the 1980s, a laboratory where British government has experimented with programmes for both promoting and decentralising innovation, while maintaining at a distance control through mandated calculations and calculative devices. The thesis brings accounting into the discussion of how private and public agencies of governance steer innovation by exploring the paradoxical phrase: “controlling innovation, innovating control”. The phrase questions the extent to which accounting discipline and practices have changed in order to keep pace with the progressive economic and social agenda of innovation. By means of an in-depth study of accounting practices, corroborated by forty semi-structured interviews, the thesis explores the action of controlling innovation across three main sites where university-industry interrelations are enacted, namely technology transfer, technology incubation, and corporate R&D. Drawing on the concept of socio-technical agencement (Callon 2005) the thesis seeks to identify and analyse the economic agencies that configure and assemble innovation as an actor capable of influencing government policies, corporate strategies, and universities’ mission. The thesis shows that controlling innovation involves calculative action that is mainly distributed across accounting devices (e.g. Discounted Cash Flow, R&D budget, and input-output performance indicators), non-accounting devices, and human entities. Drawing on, and expanding, the work of Beunza & Garud (2007) on calculative frames, the thesis finds patterns of regularity occurring in the mechanisms through which economic action within innovation is organized and distributed. The thesis also accounts for the tensions arising in the negotiation of different versions of the value of innovation. Finally, while controlling innovation is performed through a variety of accounting devices, the thesis shows that such devices are not new to the accounting discipline and practice, but rather are traditional accounting tools that adapted to the innovation rationale in virtue of their fluid and combinable properties.

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Angelidou, Sofia. "The complementary effect of search for external knowledge and organizational innovation on the firm's innovative performance." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18853/.

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This study examines the complementary effect of search for external knowledge and organizational innovation on the firm’s innovative performance. Specifically, I argue that firms can marginally increase their innovative performance by engaging in both activities simultaneously. I posit, however, that the effect of the joint occurrence of search for external knowledge and organizational innovation varies significantly depending on what is the external search strategy that firms follow. Building on the organizational learning literature, I argue that the success or failure of organizational innovation may be contingent upon conflicting objectives that different external search strategies may involve. I test my hypotheses by using a sample of 46,862 companies expanding in twelve CIS countries. The results of the study confirm my arguments, suggesting that the complementary relationship between external search and organizational innovation on the innovative performance is likely to exist only for those firms that adopt a search breadth rather than search depth knowledge sourcing strategy. Further, the findings indicate that this effect is stronger for the radical than for the incremental innovative performance of the firm. However, further analysis also reveals the conditions under which the complementary effect of depth external sourcing and organizational innovation on the firm’s innovative performance can be unlocked. The theoretical and managerial implications of the study are addressed.

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Xu, Puwei, and Wulf Loïc De. "Acquisitions: Poison Pill for Innovation?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-6149.

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Nowadays, many firms are or have already been engaged in an acquisition process, either as target or acquirer. While these companies seem confident in the potential returns of such endeavors, the positive aspect of those acquisitions has yet to be proven. There is indeed a vivid discussion among scholars, which are divided into two categories. On the one hand, there are those considering acquisitions as a source of additional knowledge that will in turn increase the innovation within the company; and on the other hand, those denigrating acquisitions, assimilating them to a “poison pill” for innovation. The purpose of this research is therefore to investigate whether the acquisitions will influence positively or negatively the innovative performance of companies involved in such processes. Using a quantitative approach, this research analyzed the R&D investments made by those companies and the issued patents gained in return. The research provides mixed results. While acquisitions seem to have a positive impact on the companies‟ innovative performance during the two years following the acquisition, this positive impact does not last and even becomes negative during the third year.

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Ringård, Fredrik, and Carl Segerlund. "Leading Innovators in Large Organisations : Enablers and Barriers for Intrapreneurship." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-157341.

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Innovation is considered by many to be a driver of organisational performance and growth. A key factor to consider for competitive edge is the utilization of the companies’ innovative capabilities. The bureaucracy often involved with large companies could limit the utilization of the inherent innovative ability and new business development. The commissioner for this study, a large Swedish multinational technology company, has in a previous study raised the importance of innovators to be properly recognised and rewarded. Moreover, they have identified a need to better identify, track and train their innovators in order to utilise their full potential. With this in mind, the research question, "How can the company’s innovative capabilities be further utilised?" was formulated. The research question was further complemented with sub-questions narrowing the field of study and allowed for a more systematic approach. Three methods were used in this study, interviews, a questionnaire and a workshop. The interviews were conducted in order to capture the company specific context and factors influencing the company’s innovators to verify and complement the literature study. Secondly, the questionnaire was done to add an additional perspective on the topic including quantitative data verifying the extent of the found factors and exploring their importance throughout the organisation. Finally, the aim of the workshop was to let innovators in the company form specific actions targeting the most pressing issues discovered from the questionnaire. The findings suggest recommendations regarding what obstacles that are most important to address, how to motivate innovation efforts, identify innovators and how to enhance the utilisation of the company’s innovative capabilities. The proposed actions from the workshop, concluding the preceding data collections were to implement a strategy facilitating innovation execution, create an incubation team supporting innovators in realising innovations, and to foster an experimental culture. Keywords: Intrapreneurship, Innovation Enabler, Innovation Barrier, Innovator Motivation, Innovative Capability Innovation anses av många vara en drivkraft som ofta medför konkurrensfördelar och starkt bidrar till organisationers positiva resultat och tillväxt. En nyckelfaktor är att nyttja företagets innovativa förmåga. Dock kan byråkratin och trögheten ofta förknippad med stora företag begränsa nyttjandet av innovationsförmågan och utvecklingen av nya marknader. Uppdragsgivaren, ett stort svenskt multinationellt teknikföretag, har lyft vikten i att företagets innovatörer stöttas, erkänns och belönas på ett korrekt sätt. De har även ett behov av att bättre identifiera, spåra och utbilda innovatörer för att nyttja deras fulla potential. Utifrån detta formulerades forskningsfrågan, "Hur kan företaget öka nyttjandet av sin innovativa förmåga?", som kompletterats med underfrågor för en mer systematisk och djupgående lösning. I studien användes tre metoder, intervjuer, en enkät och en workshop. Intervjuerna genomfördes för att fånga kontexten och samla in vilka specifika faktorer som påverkar innovatörer på det studerade företaget, som en verifiering och komplement till litteraturstudien. Enkäten undersökte generaliserbarheten i de tidigare funna faktorerna samt verifiera deras existens och betydelse i hela företaget, genom det kvantitativa resultatet. Workshopen syftade slutligen till att låta ett antal av företagets innovatörer forma åtgärdsplaner, specifikt anpassade för företaget utifrån de tydligast framträdande hindren för innovation funna från enkäten. Studien har resulterat i rekommendationer gällande vilka hinder för innovation som är viktigast att adressera, hur man motiverar och identifierar innovatörer samt hur företaget kan öka nyttjandet av sin innovativa förmåga. Workshopen, vilken binder samman resultatet från de tidigare datainsamlingarna, resulterade i tre åtgärdsplaner. Första åtgärden var att införa en strategi för realisering av innovationer. Andra åtgärden rekommenderade skapandet av en grupp som hanterar inkubationen av innovationer och hjälper idégivare att driva dessa mot realisering. Slutligen föreslogs att implementerandet av en experimentell kultur skulle gynna innovationsklimatet. Nyckelord: Intraprenörskap, Innovationsförutsättning, Innovationshinder, Innovatörsmotivation, Innovationsförmåga

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CELUKANOVS, ANDREJS, and BJÖRK SEBASTIAN WATTLE. "Best Practices for Innovation Management. : A Study on Large Companies in Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263178.

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The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and analyze good innovation management practices in Sweden’s most innovative large companies, excluding governmentally owned organizations. Out of 500 large organizations in Sweden, the top 25 most innovative companies have been ranked based upon over 7,000 printed press articles from 2018 available through Retriever Media. The companies are ranked by their innovations score which is calculated by the number of articles a company is mentioned in, adjusted to the company size, and multiplied with the mean sentiment score. The top 25 companies from the ranking was compared with 25 reference companies, active within the same industry based on the Swedish Standard Industrial Classification (SNI) number, that received a lower innovation score. Good innovation management practices were analyzed based on 14 qualitative interviews in 12 of the top 15 ranked companies and a quantitative survey responded by 20 top ranked and 17 reference companies. The interviews were semi structured with open ended questions to identify used practices, and the reasoning behind them. Spearman’s correlation method has been used to investigate if there was any correlation between the company’s innovation score, the mean performance score, and the mean importance score rated by respondents. The company case studies provide authentic examples on how and when different methods and concepts are used within industry. However, while theoretical frameworks often are strictly defined and described in solitary, the interviews have shown that when used within industry, it is rather the opposite. In many of the interviewed companies, frameworks and methods are modified, combined and constantly evolving. Aspects that the interviewees have expressed as important for an innovative company are: Innovation and change should be iterative, decentralized and started in small scale while receiving full support from top management. Examples of identified practices are: The innovation vision is used in the decision-making process for new ideas. Keywords connected to innovation are used for guiding new aspirations. There is an overall aim to become industry or/and digital leaders. Although the interviewed companies had similar innovation management practices, they were usually modified to fit within the company’s own organization and industry. The interviews contributed with interesting collection of practices within their authentic setting from which other companies could draw inspiration from. Lastly, a handbook was created describing how to conduct the innovation ranking annually, including a description of how to use the software as well as the required script of code. Det övergripande syftet med denna uppsats har varit att identifiera och analysera hur ett antal stora och framgångsrika bolag bedriver innovationsledning. Av 500 svenska företag har de 25 mest innovativa rankats baserat på hur företagen framställts i över 7000 tryckta artiklar under 2018. I artiklarna som tagits fram via Retriever Media har företagen poängsatts efter antalet artiklar som de omnämnts i, korrigerat efter företagens storlek, multiplicerat med artiklarnas genomsnittliga sentimentvärde. De 25 högst rankade företagen jämfördes sedan med 25 referensföretag aktiva inom samma bransch enligt standarden för svensk näringsindelning (SNI). God innovationsledningspraxis identifierades och analyserades genom 14 intervjuer med 12 av de 15 högst rankade företagen, samt en enkätstudie som besvarades av 20 av de 25 högst rankade företagen och 17 av referensbolagen. Intervjuerna var semi strukturerade med öppna frågor för att identifiera den innovationsledningspraxis som företagen använder sig av samt bakomliggande resonemang. Spearmans rangkorrelation användes för att identifiera eventuella korrelationer mellan företagens innovationsrankning och hur företaget presterar med avseende på olika innovationsaspekter samt hur viktiga dessa aspekter anses. Analysen av innovationsledningspraxis resulterade i praktiska exempel på hur och när olika metoder, verktyg och strategier användes inom företagen. Managementteorier som kan uppfattas som strikta i litteraturen visade sig kombineras, modifieras och utvecklas i flera av de intervjuade företagen. Aspekter som företagen lyfte fram som viktiga var att innovation och förändring behöver ske iterativt, decentraliseras och startas småskaligt med full uppbackning av företagsledningen. Några av de olika sätt att framgångsrikt leda innovation som identifierats är att: Det finns en vision för hur för företaget ska jobba med innovation och denna vision ligger till grund för mycket av den beslutsfattande processen när det kommer till nya idéer. Nyckelord kopplade till olika innovationsmål används frekvent för att leda forskning och utveckling i rätt riktning. Det finns även ett övergripande mål om att bli det ledande företaget inom olika områden och näringsgrenar. Även om många av de intervjuade företagen hade liknande innovationsledningspraxis så var denna ofta modifierade för att passa det enskilda bolaget eller branschen. De intervjuade företagen bidrog med en stor mängd intressanta metoder och insikter som andra företag kan inspireras och dra nytta av för att förbättra sin innovationsledningsförmåga. Slutligen sammanställdes en handbok för att genomföra en innovationsrankning, inklusive hur man använder de programvaror som krävs samt all nödvändig kod för att möjliggöra en återkommande rankning av innovativa företag.

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BOWERS, ROBERT SIDNEY EARL. "MANAGING CREATIVITY FOR PRODUCTIVITY: RATIONALE, DESIGN AND PROGRAMS (INNOVATION, CREATIVE, INVENTION, INNOVATE, CREATION)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188177.

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This study presents an operational definition of creativity within the contexts of business, school and community. A design for the strategic management of creativity is developed. Suggestions are made for programs to increase effectiveness in the use of creative skills. Creativity has been viewed in the past as something that happens rather than deliberate activity directed to specific goals. Numerous studies have failed to find a significant relationship between measurements of creative skills and intelligence as delimited by IQ tests and other measures of performance. Creativity can be distinguished as a category, process and quality of intelligence, and both can be defined in qualitative and theoretical terms. Models are constructed in the study to classify creativity. The components of the creative act can be tracked. A model sets parameters and categories for investigations to permit variation of content in a relatively stable sequence of steps. The sequence can be extracted as a method to process ideas from any discourse.

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Puzyrova, Polina. "The strategy of innovative development: concept, essence and significance for business units in conditions of continuous development." Thesis, Perfect Publishing, Vancouver, Canada, 2021. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/19059.

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Strategies for innovative development of business units are considered, which cover many alternative positive innovation processes in business structures and business units, which allow significantly accelerating the innovation process and making a profit. A matrix of strategies for innovative development of business units is proposed and their place for successful innovative development is determined by choosing the appropriate strategy. Characteristic features of introduction of basic and improving innovations at different levels of management are defined.

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LARSSON, DANIEL, and MARTIN HOLMQVIST. "Temporary Innovation Space : A framework for co-creating innovative product concepts with B2B customers in an ambidextrous organisation." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279074.

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This thesis project was conducted at Sandvik and builds on a previous project, also conducted at Sandvik by the same authors, during the autumn of 2019. The work is part of a newly established ambidextrous development team that is split into an innovation branch and an execution branch, with the goal to become a digital factory. A part of this thesis project is to conduct Research-to-Development (RTD) work for a future product possibility. However, the product being developed is dependent on underlying technology and infrastructure that the execution branch is simultaneously developing and establishing. Furthermore, the aim of the team is to improve Sandvik’s digital offering within the mining and construction industry which remains quite non-digitalised. The recent push for digital transformation within this industry is challenging large international companies to discover new ways of communicating advanced product ideas while working with product innovation, but also to identify and overcome organisational implementation obstacles and build lasting co-creation relationships with Business-to-Business (B2B) customers. Therefore, the purposes of this thesis were to: (1) find an optimal way of conducting RTD projects to develop product concepts that are validated with both customers and the organisation; (2) find ways of initiating and establishing a lasting co-creation relationship with B2B customers and to efficiently communicate product ideas and concepts that are dependent on underlying technology and infrastructure that have not been developed, implemented, or established yet; and (3) find a suitable way of collaborating within ambidextrous organisations when conducting RTD projects, and to clearly define the contents of a product handover. The results are based on literature, qualitative interviews with innovation experts and stakeholders, four separate user tests, and questionnaires. The findings were evaluated and improved by performing qualitative analysis and incorporating received stakeholder feedback, which led to the development of a framework for co-creation with B2B customers called the Temporary Innovation Space that can be applied to develop and validate product concepts with both customers and the internal organisation. It also addresses how to build a lasting co-creation relationship with B2B customers. Additionally, a part of the results clearly defines the contents of a product handover in an ambidextrous setup. Finally, interesting reflections and observations regarding collaboration, communication, cross-functional integration, co-creative relationships, effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and more are discussed, and a few suggestions for further research are presented. Det här arbetet utfördes på Sandvik och baseras på ett tidigare projekt som också utfördes på Sandvik av examensarbetets författare under hösten 2019. Arbetet är en del av ett nyligen etablerat och ambidextriöst utvecklingsteam som är uppdelat i en innovationsdel och en exekveringsdel med målet att bli en digital fabrik. En del av detta arbete inkluderar att utföra forskningsarbete till utvecklingen av en framtida produktmöjlighet (Research-To-Development, RTD). Samtidigt så är produkten som utvecklas beroende av underliggande teknologi och infrastruktur som inte ännu har utvecklats eller etablerats av exekveringsbenet. Fortsättningsvis så är teamets mål att förbättra Sandviks digitala produkturval inom gruvindustrin vars digitalisering fortfarande är i ett relativt tidigt stadium. De kliv som gruvindustrin nyligen har tagit mot digital transformation utmanar dessa stora företag att upptäcka nya sätt att kommunicera avancerade produktidéer, men även att identifiera och överkomma organisatoriska implementeringshinder och bygga upp varaktiga samarbeten med Business-to-Business-kunder (B2B). Arbetets syften var att; (1) hitta ett optimalt sätt att utföra forskningsarbeten för utveckling av produktkoncept som är validerade hos både kunder och organisationen; (2) hitta sätt att initiera och etablera varaktiga samarbeten med B2B-kunder och metoder för att effektivt kommunicera produktidéer som är beroende av underliggande teknologi och infrastruktur som ännu inte har utvecklats, implementerats eller etablerats; och (3) hitta ett lämpligt sätt att kollaborera inom en ambidextriös organisation medans RTD-projekt utförs och att tydligt definiera innehållet i en produktöverlämning. Resultaten är baserade på litteraturstudier, kvalitativa intervjuer med innovationsexperter och andra intressenter, fyra tester med slutanvändare, och frågeformulär. Resultaten utvärderades och förbättrades genom att utföra kvalitativ analys och genom att inkludera återkoppling från intressenter. Utifrån detta utvecklades ett ramverk för samskapande, kallat Temporary Innovation Space, som kan appliceras för utveckling och validering av produktkoncept med både kunder och den interna organisationen. Ramverket kan även användas för att etablera varaktiga förhållanden med B2Bkunder. Dessutom föreslår resultaten från detta projekt vad en produktöverlämning bör innehålla i ett ambidextriöst team. Slutligen diskuteras även intressanta observationer angående kollaboration, kommunikation, tvärfunktionell integration, samskapande samarbeten, effekterna av COVID-19 pandemin, med mera. Avslutningsvis ges flera förslag för framtida forskning.

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Wassrin, Siri. "Why is it difficult to design innovative IT? : An agential realist study of designing IT for healthcare innovation." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Informatik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-146274.

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It may seem strange to claim that it is difficult to design innovative information technology (IT) in a time when the technological progress leaps forward like never before. However, despite the numerous opportunities that this rapid progress provides, we often design IT that is similar to existing artifacts, making IT design incremental rather than radical. At the same time, IT innovations are pointed out as crucial to meet the societal challenges we are facing, not least in the public sector, including a growing and older population, increasing demands from citizens and reduced tax revenues. This calls for us to better understand why it is difficult to design innovative IT. Previous research on this topic have mainly focused on human and social aspects, not paying close attention to IT. In this thesis, it is suggested that the sociomaterial theory agential realism can help shed light on the role of IT in innovative IT design, acknowledging the sociomateriality of IT. Thus, the overarching aim of this thesis is to apply agential realism on an empirical case in order to explore and explain why it is difficult to design innovative IT. To fulfill the aim, a qualitative case study was conducted in publicly funded healthcare. The empirical case is an example of an attempt to design innovative IT in a healthcare context. The empirical material was generated through participant observations, including video recordings, and semi-structured interviews. The material was analyzed in several rounds, with and without a theoretical lens. In the agential realist analysis, IT has been viewed as entangled with the world. The analysis focused on what boundaries IT produced and how these boundaries were consequential for what was possible and impossible to design. The thesis illustrates how IT is produced and productive in terms of both matter and meaning, and thus, is agential – IT makes differences in the world. What is possible to design is not only constrained by social structures but by the materiality of IT, what boundaries IT helps produce and the material-discursive practices that enact IT. Innovative IT design means to design material configurations that produce boundaries that are different from what have been enacted before and, thus, deviate from existing material-discursive practices. However, it is difficult to deviate from these since material-discursive practices are agential and define what boundaries are meaningful and legitimate. Hence, it is difficult to design innovative IT since innovative IT design has to both enact boundaries that deviate from agential material-discursive practices and also gain legitimacy. Through this explanation, the thesis makes an explanatory knowledge contribution which differs from and adds to earlier explanations. It also makes a contribution to conceptualizing the IT artifact by emphasizing IT as sociomaterial and providing examples of how IT can be understood as produced, productive, agential and entangled. Finally, the thesis also makes an empirical and methodological contribution in the sense that it demonstrates how an agential realist case study can be conducted in the field of Information Systems. Det kan verka märkligt att påstå att det är svårt att designa innovativ informationsteknik (IT) i en tid då den tekniska utvecklingen går snabbare än någonsin förr. Men trots de många möjligheter som den snabba utvecklingen erbjuder så designar vi ofta IT som liknar existerande artefakter, vilket resulterar i inkrementell snarare än radikal IT-design. Samtidigt pekas IT-innovation ut som kritisk för att möta de samhälleliga utmaningar som vi står inför, inte minst i den offentliga sektorn där en växande och åldrande befolkning, ökade krav från medborgare och minskade skatteintäkter ställer stora krav på offentliga organisationer. Av denna anledning behöver vi förbättra vår förståelse för varför det är svårt att designa innovativ IT. Tidigare forskning inom detta ämne har främst fokuserat på mänskliga och sociala aspekter men inte uppmärksammat IT. I denna avhandling föreslås att den sociomateriella teorin agentiell realism kan bidra till att belysa ITs roll i innovativ IT-design genom att se IT som sociomateriell. Därmed är avhandlingens övergripande syfte att applicera agentiell realism på ett empiriskt fall för att utforska och förklara varför det är svårt att designa innovativ IT. För att uppfylla syftet har en kvalitativ fallstudie genomförts i offentlig sjukvård. Det empiriska fallet är ett exempel på ett försök att designa innovativ IT i en sjukvårdskontext. Det empiriska materialet genererades genom deltagande observationer, inklusive videofilmning, och semistrukturerade intervjuer. Materialet analyserades i flera omgångar, både med och utan teoretisk lins. I analysen där agentiell realism applicerades sågs IT som entangled (’intrasslad’) med världen. Denna analys fokuserade på vilka gränser som IT producerade och hur dessa gränser hade konsekvenser för vad som var möjligt respektive omöjligt att designa. Denna avhandling illustrerar hur IT är producerad och producerande både vad gäller materia och betydelser, och därmed är agentiell – IT gör skillnad i världen. Vad som är möjligt att designa är inte enbart begränsat av sociala strukturer utan också av ITs materialitet, vilka gränser som IT bidrar till att producera och de materiell-diskursiva praktiker som framställer IT. Innovativ ITdesign innebär att designa materiella konfigurationer som skapar gränser vilka skiljer sig från vad som blivit till innan och därmed avviker från rådande materiell-diskursiva praktiker. Det är dock svårt att avvika från dessa eftersom materiell-diskursiva praktiker är agentiella och definierar vilka gränser som är meningsfulla och legitima. Det är därmed svårt att designa innovativ IT då innovativ IT-design behöver både producera gränser som avviker från agentiella materiell-diskursiva praktiker och också uppnå legitimitet. Med denna förklaring ger avhandlingen ett kunskapsbidrag och bidrar till ny förståelse för varför det är svårt att designa innovativ IT. Avhandlingen bidrar också till att konceptualisera IT-artefakten genom att betona ITs sociomaterialitet och att ge exempel på hur IT kan förstås som producerad, producerande, agentiell och entangled. Slutligen ger avhandlingen också ett empiriskt och metodologiskt bidrag genom att demonstrera hur en agentiell realistisk fallstudie kan utföras inom informatikfältet. The series name in the thesis Faculty of Arts and Sciences thesis is incorrect. The correct series name is FiF-avhandling.

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Halawani, Nour. "Innovative materials for packaging." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEI010/document.

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Ce travail porte sur l'étude du mélange thermodurcissable - thermoplastique (époxyamine / polyetherimide avec séparation de phase) pour évaluer les performances électriques et thermiques. Ces matériaux seraient des nouveaux candidats pour remplacer la couche d'encapsulation dans les semi-conducteurs, par exemple ceux utilisés comme interrupteur dans les applications électroniques de puissance. Les mélanges de polymères seraient un nouveau candidat en tant qu'isolant pour le système. La matrice epoxy-amine seul et les melanges epoxy / Polyetherimide on été caractérisés par microscopie électronique à transmission, microscopie électronique à balayage, Calorimétrie différentielle à balayage, analyse thermogravimétrique, analyse mécanique dynamique, analyse diélectrique avec simulation analytique et des mesures de conductivité électrique et de tension de claquage ont également été entreprises. Ces techniques complémentaires ont d'abord été utilisées pour étudier la séparation de phases et ensuite pour quantifier la taille des nodules de thermoplastiques dans la matrice thermodurcissable. Cette séparation de phase a été examiné et a montré une diminution des valeurs diélectriques de 15% et une augmentation de la tension de claquage par rapport au système époxy-amine pur This work deals with the study of thermoset-thermoplastic blend (epoxy-amine/poly-etherimide phase separated) to assess the electrical and thermal performances. These materials would be new candidates to replace the encapsulation layer in semiconductors, for example ones used as switches in power electronic applications. Polymers blends would be a novel candidate as an insulator for the system. Pure epoxy system as well as Epoxy/Polyetherimide blends where characterized by transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, dynamic mechanical analysis, dielectric analysis with analytical simulation, electrical conductivity and breakdown voltage measurements. These complementary techniques were used first to investigate the presence of the phase separation phenomenon and secondly to quantify the separated nodules size. The effect of this phase separation was examined and showed a decrease in the dielectric values of 15 % and an increase in the breakdown voltage compared to the pure epoxy system. It was finally simulated to show a close assumption of what is found experimentally

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Кириленко, Оксана Миколаївна, Oksana Kyrylenko, Катерина Миколаївна Разумова та Kateryna Razumova. "Удосконалення інноваційної політики як фактор підвищення ефективності діяльності підприємств". Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/53424.

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1. Ільяшенко С.М. Менеджмент і маркетинг інновацій: Монографія. – Суми: ВТД «Університетська книга», 2004. – 616 с. 2. Райзберг, Б. А. Современный экономический словарь : 5-е изд., перераб. и доп. / Б. А. Райзберг, Л.Ш. Лозовский, Е. Б. Стародубцева. – М. : ИНФРАМ, 2007. – 495 с. 3. Мочерный С.В., Некрасов В.Н., Овчинников В.Н., Секретарюк В.В.. Экономическая теория [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: http://library.tuit.uz/skanir_knigi/book/econ_teoriya/econ_teoriya.htm 4. Корсикова Н.М. Организационно-экономический механизм управления инновационным развитием предприятия в современных условиях // Экономика пищевой промышленности, № 3, 2009 г.- 8-11 с. 5. Тульчинская С.О. Функционирование организационно-экономического механизма инновационного процесса // Стратегические приоритеты, №1 (6), 2008 г.- 89-95 с. 6. Зинь Е., Валюх А. Механизм развития региональной инновационной деятельности [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: http://www.ashsu.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=403 7. Карпунь Н.И. Мотивация и стимулирование инновационной деятельности предприятия. [Электронный ресурс] - Режим доступа: http://archive.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/natural/Vnulp/Ekonomika/2008_628/84.pdf 8. Украинец А.И. Принципы формирования механизма инновационного развития отечественных машиностроительных предприятий // Вестник Национального университета "Львовская политехника": Проблемы экономики, №640, 2009г. - 219-225 с. 9. Новак В.О., Андрійчук І.М. Особливості інноваційної діяльності сучасних підприємств. Проблеми системного підходу в економіці. – [Електронне наукове фахове видання]. – К.: НАУ, 2011. – № 3. – Режим доступу до збірника: http://www.irbisnbuv.gov.ua/cgbin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?Z21ID=&I21DBN=UJRN&P21DBN=UJRN&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=juu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=PREF=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=PSPE 10. Хорев А.И., Артеменко В.Б., Платонова И.В. Процедура формирования инновационного механизма предприятия [Электронный ресурс]. Режим доступа: http://www.lerc.ru/?part=bulletin&art=9&page=12 Активізація інноваційної діяльності, як показує досвід промислово розвинених країн, є визначальним напрямом забезпечення впровадження результатів науково-технічного прогресу у виробництво, підвищуючи його конкурентоспроможність і стійке положення на ринку товарів і послуг. Проблеми, близькі до вдосконалення механізму стимулювання інноваційної активності підприємств, досить активно досліджуються. Однак, до сих пір мало уваги приділяється розробці, впровадженню, розвитку механізму стимулювання інноваційної активності підприємств. Зазначене обумовлює необхідність уточнення економічного змісту, цілей, структурних елементів, ролі зазначеного механізму для досягнення його більшої комплексності та функціональності. Актуальність питань пов'язаних з інноваційною політикою зумовлена тим фактом, що саме інновації забезпечують якісні зміни, які можна назвати «розвитком», а не кількісним збільшенням. The intensification of innovation, as the experience of industrialized countries shows, is a key area to ensure the implementation of the results of scientific and technological progress in production, increasing its competitiveness and a stable position in the market of goods and services. Problems close to improving the mechanism for stimulating innovation activity of enterprises are being actively studied. However, so far little attention is paid to the development, implementation, development of a mechanism to stimulate innovation activity of enterprises. This necessitates clarification of the economic content, goals, structural elements, the role of this mechanism to achieve its greater complexity and functionality. The urgency of issues related to innovation policy is due to the fact that innovation provides qualitative change, which can be called "development" rather than quantitative increase.

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Farooqui, Maaz. "Innovative noise control in ducts." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Farkost och flyg, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-192927.

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The objective of this doctoral thesis is to study three different innovative noise control techniques in ducts namely: acoustic metamaterials, porous absorbers and microperforates. There has been a lot of research done on all these three topics in the context of duct acoustics. This research will assess the potential of the acoustic metamaterial technique and compare to the use of conventional methods using microperforated plates and/or porous materials. The objective of the metamaterials part is to develop a physical approach to model and synthesize bulk moduli and densities to feasibly control the wave propagation pattern, creating quiet zones in the targeted fluid domain. This is achieved using an array of locally resonant metallic patches. In addition to this, a novel thin slow sound material is also proposed in the acoustic metamaterial part of this thesis. This slow sound material is a quasi-labyrinthine structure flush mounted to a duct, comprising of coplanar quarter wavelength resonators that aims to slow the speed of sound at selective resonance frequencies. A good agreement between theoretical analysis and experimental measurements is demonstrated. The second technique is based on acoustic porous foam and it is about modeling and characterization of a novel porous metallic foam absorber inside ducts. This material proved to be a similar or better sound absorber compared to the conventional porous absorbers, but with robust and less degradable properties. Material characterization of this porous absorber from a simple transfer matrix measurement is proposed.The last part of this research is focused on impedance of perforates with grazing flow on both sides. Modeling of the double sided grazing flow impedance is done using a modified version of an inverse semi-analytical technique. A minimization scheme is used to find the liner impedance value in the complex plane to match the calculated sound field to the measured one at the microphone positions. QC 20160923

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Ölundh, Gunilla. "Modernising ecodesign : ecodesign for innovative solutions." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Machine Design (Div.), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3878.

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The focus of environmental work in manufacturing companies has increasingly shifted from end-of-pipe solutions to the environmental performance of products and services. The product development process is central to creating value for customers. This thesis argues that companies can simultaneously create value for consumers and be profitable while taking environmental considerations into account.Modernising ecodesign means taking advantage of environmental benefits and the innovation potential when developing solutions rather than using ecodesign simply to ensure that legal requirements or customer demands are met. Ecodesign is a strategic issue and should be included in early product development activities, such as for project selection and when setting product targets. There is also need to perform ecodesign according to the characteristics of specific development processes as for radical product development or when developing integrated solutions, using a combination of services and products.This thesis reports on the findings from five different research studies, all of which adopted a qualitative approach in which the emphasis falls on exploring and creating understanding and meaning. The studies focused on three areas of ecodesign: A) rethinking approaches for manufacturing companies, B) setting environmental project targets and project selection and C) redesign of products.Recommendations on how to modernise ecodesign have been developed and can be summarised in six points:• Perform ecodesign both vertically and horizontally in a company.• Increase interaction between organisational units.• Take advantage of innovation potential in products, services, user behaviour and the delivery and take-back systems.• Take environmental considerations into account in the project selection process.• Set environmental targets for ensuring that environmental considerations are taken when developing innovative solutions.• Develop ecodesign procedures that fit the characteristics of the development process

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Shabani, Maryam. "A Model of Crucial Factors Influencing on the Innovation Resistance for Purchasing Innovative Passenger Vehicles in Automotive Industry of Iran." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670677.

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Purpose: The goal of this thesis is to render a model of influencing factors on Innovation resistance for purchasing innovative passenger vehicles in Auto industry of Iran. Design/Methodology/Approach: The innovative passenger vehicles that are produced by 4 car manufacturing companies of Iran are selected. Data is collected in two phases, at the first step which is qualitative phase, 13 questionnaires are distributed among panel of experts who are managers and top experts of SAIPA car manufacturing company (Appendix 1). Then in the second phase which is quantitative, the questionnaire which is prepared based on the results of first phase, are distributed among 265 customers of Kerman Khodro Co., Modiran Khodro Co. and Iran Khodro Co. that have resisted to purchase innovative vehicle of SAIPA (Appendix 2). The resistance factors are detected and grouped through Exploratory Factor Analysis techniques, and the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), which is a very general statistical modeling technique that is normally used in the behavioral sciences. It can be viewed as a combination of factor analysis and regression or path analysis, so by SEM method will provide the aforementioned impacts of these resistance factors on resistance purchasing behavior. Findings: The results of qualitative phase show that Trialability, Co-dependence, Visibility, Realization, Relative advantage and Value factors are the most influential factors on innovation resistance which are clustered in Functional barriers. On the other hand, Economic Risk, Functional Risk, Usage, Image, Previous Innovation Experience and Usefulness are the most influential factors on Innovation Resistance, which are categorized in Psychological barriers. Additionally, the Demographic barriers extracted as influential factors on innovation resistance analyzed are: Age, Income and Education. The new factor of "After Sales Services" is recommended by panel of experts from Delphi model, in order to add to influential factors on Innovation Resistance. Thereafter, the above-mentioned factors have a crucial and prominent role in reducing the resistance of consumers in order to purchase innovative passenger vehicles. In the second phase which is quantitative step of this research, based on the results of first step the questionnaire has been prepared and are distributed among 265 ordinary customers of three Iranian car manufacturing companies. The abovementioned factors resulting of the first step of this research are used in order to assess its impact on Intention to buy, and the mediation role of Active Innovation Resistance between Barriers and Intention to buy. A research model, in which these constructs are included, is proposed and analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results show that “Active innovation resistance” is playing the role of a complementary mediation. Therefore, the impact of “Functional barriers” on “Intention to buy” is mediated by “Active innovation resistance”. In the same way, “Active innovation resistance” also mediates between “Psychological barriers” and “Intention to buy”. Research Implications: A new fresh model analyzing the mediator role of Active Innovation Resistance shed light to conceptualize the way Barriers (both Functional and Psychological) impacts on customer behavior, in the specific setting of innovative automotive industry in Iran. Practical Implications: The propagation of innovation in automotive industry is challenging and imposing huge investment to manufacturer, so they should pay attention to real barriers for resisting to purchase their innovative vehicles. Moreover, customers, who are playing the main role for their success, might adjust its intention to purchase these innovative cars, and foster the Iranian society to be interested in innovation of car manufactures.

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Lobasenko, Valeriia. "Consumer behavior towards innovative products : which methodologies for which values?" Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAE002/document.

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L’objectif de cette thèse est d’analyser les différents types de valeurs qui déterminent et expliquent les choix et comportements des consommateurs avec une attention particulière pour les produits innovants. Plus particulièrement, on cherche à déterminer leurs consentements à payer pour des produits innovants avec des caractéristiques durables d’une part, et comment les préférences du consommateur et les caractéristiques du produit interviennent dans le processus de la prise de la décision d’autre part.Dans le premier chapitre, nous affirmons que les préférences individuelles sont reflétées dans leurs consentements à payer pour un produit / service et sont basées sur les valeurs individuelles. Ces valeurs sont stables pour chaque individu, guident ses préférences et ses actions en tant qu'individu (valeurs personnelles) et en tant qu'agent économique (valeurs client et consommateur). En se focalisant sur la consommation de produits innovants et durables, cette thèse aborde également les valeurs environnementales et innovantes.L'analyse des valeurs pour les produits innovants est d'une grande importance pour les entreprises, car elle permet d'anticiper les préférences et leurs changements, et par là même, elle contribue à la définition des priorités dans les processus de développement de nouvelles offres de produits.Les systèmes complexes de ces valeurs entraînent des défis particuliers pour l'estimation, qui sont discutés dans le chapitre 2. Notamment, l'exactitude des estimations du CAP dépend du choix de la méthode utilisée par le chercheur.Les résultats obtenus montrent que les consommateurs ont une valorisation positive de produits innovants avec des caractéristiques durables. Ces valorisations sont basées sur les préférences des consommateurs et ses valeurs personnelles et de consommateur. Les études empiriques présentées dans les chapitres 3 et 4 proposent deux approches expérimentales qui contribuent à la compréhension des comportements des consommateurs à l'égard de produits innovants et à la compréhension des difficultés et défis des méthodes expérimentales d'élicitation de préférences pour ces produits/services. En outre, ils démontrent la validité du concept des valeurs dans le comportement des consommateurs The general purpose of this thesis is to analyze the different types of values that determine and explain the choices and behavior of consumers with a particular focus on innovative products. Specifically, we want to know whether consumers are willing to pay for innovative products with sustainable features and how consumer preferences and characteristics of the product are involved in the process of the decision-making. In addition, we test new methods for such estimations.In the Chapter 1 we claim that individual preferences are reflected in willingness to pay for a product/service and are based on individual’s values. These values are stable for each individual, guide his/her preferences and actions as an individual (personal values) and as an economic agent (customer and consumer values). With the focus on the consumption of innovative and sustainable products, this thesis discusses also environmental and innovative values.The importance of value analysis for innovative products is of a high importance for companies, because it allows to anticipate preferences and their changes, and by this, helps to define the priorities of new product development processes.The complex systems of these values result in particular challenges for the estimation, discussed in Chapter 2. Therefore, the accuracy of WTP estimates depends on the choice of the method used by the researcher.The obtained results show that consumers have positive valuations of innovative products with sustainable characteristics. These valuations are based on consumers preferences and values inherent to him/her are an individual and as a consumer. The empirical studies presented in Chapters 3 and 4 offer two experimental approaches, which contribute to the understanding of consumer behavior towards innovative products and to the understanding of the difficulties and challenges for experimental methods of preference elicitation for these products/services. In addition, they demonstrate the validity of value theory in consumer behavior

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Silva, Neander F. "Hybrid system for innovative design." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21250.

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The thesis focuses on in two vital and interrelated aspects of modelling design support systems, they are: how innovative solutions may arise, and the knowledge-base's extension and maintenance. The dilemma 'reproduction versus creativity' is identified as one of the main deadlocks that the design methods' debate, research in Computer Aided Architectural Design, CAAD, and Artificial Intelligence, AI, have faced in the last thirty years. A hybrid approach is then proposed as a means of overcoming these difficulties, where a rudimentary evolving design support environment is developed. It draws inspiration from three areas of Artificial Intelligence: knowledge-base systems, connectionist models, and case-based reasoning (CBR). However, it differs fundamentally from conventional knowledge-base systems, connectionist models and CBR tools, in its architecture, although strongly inspired by these underlying theories. The main benefits and contributions of this hybrid system are an incremental selfextending feature able to minimise substantially the dependency on knowledge engineer intervention, and an interactive support to innovation by augmenting the designer's creativity.

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Park, Mathew Soongmin. "The Center for Innovative Technology." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53151.

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Columns and walls are reinvented in my experience while pursuing the project. It is my belief that architecture should be reinvented every time a building is designed and built. Master of Architecture

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Nelson, Nicole Terese. "Innovative tracers for subsurface characterization." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288977.

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Proper site characterization is a critical component in making risk-based decisions and in selecting an appropriate action for a site, whether it is active remediation, containment or natural attenuation. The overall purpose of this work is to investigate innovative techniques for characterizing the factors controlling the transport and fate of organic chemicals at contaminated sites. It is expected that results from this work will lead to improved and more cost-effective methods for characterizing contamination at hazardous waste sites. The information gained from using these methods may lead to a better understanding of factors controlling contaminant transport at sites and therefore more informed risk-based decision making and selection of remediation strategies. The results indicate that (1) the presence of porous media heterogeneity and distinct zones of dense nonaqueous liquid (DNAPL) saturation lead to reduced performance (reduced accuracy) of the partitioning tracer test for measuring DNAPL saturation in saturated subsurface systems, (2) gas-phase tracer tests have the potential to accurately measure water contents for a system with uniform water content and homogeneous porous media, (3) the diffusivity-tracer test method can be used to determine whether diffusion-mediated processes are significant at a particular site, and (4) for a 2-dimensional flow cell flushing experiment the magnitude of trichloroethene concentration and the shape of the trichloroethene elution curves varied as a function of location and sampling type and that the less than solubility concentrations observed at almost all ports were caused by the nonuniform NAPL distribution and porous media heterogeneity, rather than by rate-limited interphase mass transfer at the pore-scale.

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Ferretti, Stefano <1976&gt. "Innovative technologies for Space habitats." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/958/1/Tesi_Ferretti_Stefano.pdf.

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Ferretti, Stefano <1976&gt. "Innovative technologies for Space habitats." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2008. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/958/.

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Barbera, Davide <1984&gt. "Innovative processes for syngas production." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5835/1/Barbera_Davide_Tesi.pdf.

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The research of new advanced processes for syngas production is a part of a European project for the production of a new Gas to Liquid Process (NextGTL). The crucial points in the production of GTL process are the energy required for the air separation used in autothermal reforming or the heat required for steam reforming and the efficiency in carbon utilization. Therefore a new multistep oxy-reforming process scheme was developed at lower temperature with intermediate H2 membrane separation to improve the crucial parameter. The process is characterized by a S/C of 0.7 and O2/C of 0.21 having a smoothed temperature profile in which kinetic regime is easily obtained. Active catalysts for low temperature oxy-reforming process have been studied working at low pressure to discriminate among the catalyst and at high pressure to prove it on industrial condition. It allows the selection of the Rh as active phase among single and bimetallic VIII group metal. The study of the matrix composition and thermal treatment has been carried out on Rh-Mg/Al hydrotalcite selected as reference catalyst. The research to optimize the catalyst lead to enhanced performances through the identification of a limitation of the Rh reduction from the oxides matrix as key point to increase the Rh performances. The Rh loading have been studied to allow the catalyst scale up for pilot process in Chieti in a shape of Rh-HT on honeycomb ceramic material. The developed catalyst has enhanced methane conversion in a inch diameter monolith reactor if compared with the semi-industrial catalyst chosen in the project as the best reference.

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Barbera, Davide <1984&gt. "Innovative processes for syngas production." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5835/.

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The research of new advanced processes for syngas production is a part of a European project for the production of a new Gas to Liquid Process (NextGTL). The crucial points in the production of GTL process are the energy required for the air separation used in autothermal reforming or the heat required for steam reforming and the efficiency in carbon utilization. Therefore a new multistep oxy-reforming process scheme was developed at lower temperature with intermediate H2 membrane separation to improve the crucial parameter. The process is characterized by a S/C of 0.7 and O2/C of 0.21 having a smoothed temperature profile in which kinetic regime is easily obtained. Active catalysts for low temperature oxy-reforming process have been studied working at low pressure to discriminate among the catalyst and at high pressure to prove it on industrial condition. It allows the selection of the Rh as active phase among single and bimetallic VIII group metal. The study of the matrix composition and thermal treatment has been carried out on Rh-Mg/Al hydrotalcite selected as reference catalyst. The research to optimize the catalyst lead to enhanced performances through the identification of a limitation of the Rh reduction from the oxides matrix as key point to increase the Rh performances. The Rh loading have been studied to allow the catalyst scale up for pilot process in Chieti in a shape of Rh-HT on honeycomb ceramic material. The developed catalyst has enhanced methane conversion in a inch diameter monolith reactor if compared with the semi-industrial catalyst chosen in the project as the best reference.

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Bamonti, Silvia <1983&gt. "Innovative Techniques for Waste Management." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7891/1/Bamonti_Silvia_tesi.pdf.

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This work focuses on innovative approaches applied to waste management and aimed at developing strategies and actions which can be operatively integrated into the design of environmental services. Innovations presented here, belong to the HERGO project, developed within the Hera Group, and aimed at providing the complete traceability of collection routes by means of ICT solutions. In practice, an interconnection between a central management system, a system for data acquisition and field devices, has been realized to provide a profitable exchange of information about environmental services. All the data collected on field, by means of sensors and readers, are georeferenced as the system is connected to WEB GIS. Traceability of the collection processes represents a strong innovation in the field of waste management and it is intended to be the basis for future developments aimed at improving the environmental services. Indeed, as shown here, data collected into the HERGO system, can be employed to optimize the collection routes, which produces relevant improvements from both a logistic and environmental point of view. Under future scenarios, also related to climate change, the identification of solutions able to reduce resource consumption and depletion, may significantly produce benefit at global level for the society as a whole. As such, the analysis and approaches described here, are in line with the priorities identified by the European programmes for climate and row materials. Among these priorities, an important role is played by recycling. For this reason, part of the research is related to the application of Life Cycle Assessment to quantify the environmental benefit deriving from the employment of recycled materials under scenarios of interest.

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DE, NEGRI ATANASIO GIULIA. "Innovative tools for vascular disease." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1047397.

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In the Western World, pathologies related to cardiovascular apparatus as coronary and peripheral arterial represent one of the prevalent causes of mortality. Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory and progressive disease characterized by the presence of an accumulation of low-density lipoprotein. The accumulation is commonly called plaque and it can occlude the blood flow in the arteries. The evolution of the plaque can represent a target in all stages of its progression. In the early-stage of atherosclerotic plaque, nanocarriers can be used as a system for targeted drug deliver, and during its progression it could be necessary to replace the vessel by using innovative engineered biodegradable vascular grafts. Nanoparticles can inhibit the progression of the plaque when correctly functionalized on the surface to target the atheromatous site. The first part of this Ph.D. thesis is focused on the production of nanoparticles with a comparative study between liposomes produced trough the thin layer hydration technique and polylactic co glycolic acid (PLGA)-based nanoparticles produced using the double emulsion technique. In this preliminary work, both carriers were loaded with different concentrations of albumin as model protein. A study of morphology, dimension, size, entrapment efficiency, cytocompatibility, and hemocompatibility was performed. Both particles analyzed present positive points however, the studied polymeric nanocarriers can be considered as a good model to be engineered with antibodies on their surface in order to be employed in the vascular field as a nanosystem for protein drug delivery. A second work on PLGA nanoparticles was performed at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto (i3S) at the University of Porto, under the supervision of Professor Bruno Sarmento. Here, it was optimized the encapsulation of bevacizumab, a commercial antibody, Avastin®, active against the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor commonly expressed at the atheromatic site. The functionalization process with immunouteroglobin-1 (IUG1) a human recombinant antibody (scFv) specific for extra-domain B (EDB) of fibronectin, a well-known marker of angiogenesis was considered and tested. These polymeric and functionalized nanoparticles were analyzed in terms of morphology, size, ζ-potential, entrapment efficiency, conjugation efficiency, release studies at 37° C, FTIR, CD, biocompatibility with endothelial cells (EA.hy926), macrophage (RAW 246.7), and hemocompatibility. This part of the work involves an innovative therapeutic approach for the treatment of the early-stage of atherosclerosis, the most common disease in cardiovascular field. The second part of this Ph.D. thesis is focused on the development of synthetic grafts for vessels with a diameter smaller than 6 mm. In the clinical practice, when the vessel is obstructed by the atheromatous plaque is essential to reconstruct the blood flow, maintaining all the functions of the downstream tissue, is necessary to introduce a bypass. It is preferable to use autologous veins but, if not available, the use of synthetic grafts is required. Non-biodegradable vascular prostheses such as poly (ethylene terephthalate fibers and expanded poly (tetrafluoroethylene), commercially known as Dacron® and Gore-Tex®, respectively) have been successfully used as vascular grafts for aortic and iliac replacement. These materials are not used to substitute small caliber vessels (inner diameter < 6 mm) because the longer contact of the blood with the wall of the vessels due to the lower pressure can induce thrombogenic event, there is the absence of endothelialization after the implantation, it can occur infection of the synthetic grafts and related inflammatory response to the foreign materials. Nowadays, it looks essential to fabricate vessel grafts to replace these small vessels, and several approaches have been used to fabricate small-caliber blood vessel grafts as 3D printing, film casting, electrospinning, decellularization matrices from animals, and cell-seeding. An ideal vascular graft should be biodegradable acting as a scaffold to help the regeneration of a native vessel. The mechanical properties result to be essential to mimic the native arteries, being resistant to thrombosis, dilatation, good flexibility, and no kinking, showing good suture retention, hemocompatibility and have an appropriate degradation kinetic. Given these problems in the clinical procedure, small caliber vascular prostheses made of biodegradable and bioabsorbable polymers through electrospinning have been developed through electrospinning and then functionalize with bioactive compounds. The electrospinning technique is considered one of the most promising methods in the tissue engineering area, in particular for the development of synthetic vascular tissue producing structures similar to the extracellular matrix. In this process, the solvent evaporates immediately, and the applied electrical fields induces the deposition of the polymeric solution on a tubular collector. The prostheses thus produced, are composed of a blend of two different polymers: poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) and poly (glycerol sebacate) (PGS) in a ratio 1:1 both 20 % m/v. These constructs, due to the high permeability, need a coating with gelatin which significantly reduces the water permeability. One of the aims of this project is to produce grafts that can influence the cells inducing the regeneration process. Furthermore, the post-surgical inflammation is able to negatively affect the cellular attachment and can induce several damages to the structure of the biomaterials compromising it’s the characteristics. In order to modulate the inflammation, scaffolds were functionalized with antioxidants. Quercetin (3, 3’, 4’, 5, 7-pentahydroxyflavone) is an antioxidant popular in different kinds of fruit and vegetables. The addition of quercetin to the studied polymeric vascular grafts did not change both their morphology and their overall performances. Also, the presence of quercetin counteracted the activity of TNF-α inducing a decrease in MMP-9 expression level, showing the capability to modulate the inflammatory process. To develop a suitable construct is important to study its behavior in different conditions; for this reason, a study in static-conditions, dynamic-conditions and a study in bioreactor have been performed. The latter was fundamental to understand the behavior under different pression regimes mimicking the peripherical district. During or at the end of the experimentations vascular grafts were always by characterize at different point of view: morphological (SEM, fiber distribution and dimensions), chemical physical (release of bioactive compounds, degradation , fluid uptake and degradation at different pH ), mechanical (tensile strength, young modulus and elongation percentage). The novelty of this second part is the fabrication of small-diameter biodegradable and bioabsorbable vascular graft and its characterization in several conditions (Static, dynaminc and bioreactor) showing promising results.

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Sgarbossa, Francesco. "Innovative Methods for Germanium Doping." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3422706.

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One of the main goals in the semiconductor research is the production of a shallow junctions conformal to the surface of a device. This request emerges from the increasing importance of nanostructured devices made by semiconductor materials like multi-gate transistors. The 3D geometry of these devices implies the capability to dope the semiconductor material in a nanostructured, non-planar geometry, which continues to be a difficult task. One of the most promising techniques for the deposition and diffusion of a well-defined amount of dopant is based on the use of self-limiting chemical deposition on semiconductor surfaces: that is the key points of the monolayer doping technique (MLD). This particular technique consists in adsorbing a monolayer of a molecular precursor by a self-limited surface adsorption interaction, which leads to an adsorbed mono- or multilayers formation. This layer(s) acts as a source of dopant for the substrate in-diffusion. This new technique allows to dope not only 3D nano-structured materials with an intrinsically conformal method, but also flat semiconductor surfaces by avoiding the ion implantation technique and the consequent damage of the crystal lattice. On the other hand, germanium is actually a very interesting semiconductor: small band-gap and high charge carrier mobilities have been recently making it more and more appealing in several application fields, from nano-electronics to photovoltaics, from optics to radiation detectors. This work is focused on the challenging n-type doping of Ge by using new doping methods based on the surface interaction between molecular precursors and germanium (001) surface. A complete study on phosphorus monolayer doping technique on germanium is presented, using surface molecular precursor, and also a new antimony self-limiting deposition via gas phase has been discovered and tested as a new technique to synthesized a surface monolayer that can be used as a source for Ge doping. The P and Sb ML sources are synthesised in a completely different way: the phosphorus precursors depositions is done via wet chemistry, using a reflux method or by using a dry procedure in a dry-box ambient both near 160°C, while the antimony monolayer is deposited via gas phase in a nitrogen flux at high temperature (about 600°C <T< 790°C). In both cases, the germanium oxide plays a crucial role: for P case, the oxide plays a fundamental role in the adsorption mechanism, while in the Sb case it contributes to oxidise the incoming antimony gas, playing a fundamental role in the monolayer formation. In both cases the new chemical bond generates between the precursor and the substrate is a Ge-O- based bond: Ge-O-P or Ge-O-Sb. The presence of the Ge-O- bond seems to be the cause of the high surface stability of monolayers, thus generating a lack in diffusion with standard thermal in-diffusion processes. Indeed, the presence of high stable chemical bonds act as a diffusion barrier, since P or Sb atoms release from the chemisorbed ML is possible only after a thermal bond disruption, as will be further discussed. A completely different scenario is presented with the use of pulsed laser melting technique (PLM): it has been used on monolayer molecular sources on Ge (001) and thanks to this out-of-equilibrium technique, the molecular precursor act as a doping source, being effective also for Ge doping. Phosphorus monolayers act as a source of dopant for PLM technique, releasing P and generating a doped layer. In the antimony oxide ML case, all the surface ML is available for diffusion (with no Sb loss), even if all the surface ML is in an initial oxidised state. The PLM technique promote its reduction and atomic Sb diffuse and doped the surface of Ge substrate. The creation of a fully active Sb layer with a surface concentration over 10^20 cm^-3 is the clearly demonstration of the feasibility of the use of Sb ML as a source of dopant. Uno dei principali obiettivi della ricerca nel campo dei semiconduttori è la produzione di giunzioni sottili conformi alla superficie. Questa richiesta emerge da un crescente uso di strutture di dimensioni nanometriche nei nuovi dispositivi a semiconduttore, le quali necessitano di nuovi metodi di drogaggio compatibili anche con geometrie non planari e adatte alla nano-scala. Una delle più promettenti tecniche che è stata proposta negli ultimi anni è chiamata “Monolayer Doping” (MLD). Proposta per la prima volta su silicio, essa si basa sul deposito di monostrati molecolari sulla superficie dei semiconduttori: la molecola depositata fungerà poi da sorgente di drogante superficiale, il quale diffonderà nel materiale a seguito di processi termici diffusivi. Grazie all’intrinseca natura conforme di questa tecnica, essa è compatibile con strutture tridimensionali anche alla nano-scala e grazie al suo basso costo, è adatta anche per il drogaggio su larga scala. Oggigiorno il germanio è ritornato ad essere un materiale semiconduttore in luce nel campo della ricerca scientifica per le sue ritrovate interessanti proprietà elettriche, come la mobilità dei portatori, la sua piccola band-gap e la scoperta della possibilità di promuovere transizioni dirette tramite l’uso di stress e alti drogaggi: grazie ad esse, nuove sue applicazioni nella nano-elettronica e nel termo-fotovoltaico, ma anche nella plasmonica e nei detector sono sempre più studiate nella letteratura scientifica. Questo lavoro si è focalizzato nello studio del drogaggio di tipo n del germanio, utilizzando la tecnica MLD: in particolare è stato studiato il comportamento e la reattività superficiale di questo semiconduttore con diversi precursori. Sono stati utilizzati tre diversi precursori del fosforo, appartenenti a tre famiglie di composti a base di P, fatti reagire o per via chimica in riflusso o tramite l’uso di una dry-box, mentre un nuovo fenomeno di adsorbimento autolimitante è stato scoperto e testato per il caso dell’antimonio, a partire da una sorgente gassosa. Alla luce di tutti gli studi è emerso che il comportamento dell’ossido di germanio gioca in tutti i casi un ruolo cruciale. Nei casi in studio, la formazione del legame P-O-Ge e Sb-O-Ge è alla base della formazione e della stabilità dei layer, ma determina anche il mancato rilascio della specie drogante. Infatti, le specie atomiche P e Sb debbono essere rilasciati dal layer e debbono diffondere nel semiconduttore sottostante come conseguenza del trattamento termico applicato. Un comportamento completamente diverso è stato rilevato tramite l’uso della tecnica “Pulsed Laser Melting” applicata ai monostrati molecolari sulla superficie di Ge. Tramite l’uso di impulsi laser nell’ultravioletto, tutti i precursori utilizzati hanno agito fungendo da sorgenti di drogante per il substrato. Nel caso dei vari precursori del fosforo, sono stati rilevati diversi comportamenti a seconda della tipologia del precursore, anche se in tutti i casi è sempre stata rilevata una diffusione del P e la formazione di una zona drogata superficialmente. Alla luce dei risultati diffusivi, per i precursori molecolari a base di fosforo trattamenti multi-impulso sono preferibili. Nel caso della sorgente di antimonio, tutto il monolayer è risultato disponibile alla diffusione già a seguito di un trattamento mono-impulso, sebbene la sorgente di partenza fosse un ossido stabile di antimonio. Le evidenze sperimentali suggeriscono che il laser abbia non solo un effetto sul riscaldamento della superficie del germanio, ma anche un effetto riducente. La creazione di giunzioni superficiali con concentrazioni di oltre 10^20 cm^-3 Sb, con il 100% di attivazione elettrica, è la chiara dimostrazione di come la tecnica PLM utilizzata ad esempio con una sorgente Sb ML sia un valido metodo di drogaggio per il Ge.

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Aalto, Hagman Fredrik, and Claes Sonde. "Innovation Crowdsourcing : Exploring the Use of an Innovation Intermediary." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-77719.

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Background: With the Open Innovation paradigm come new hopes for innovating companies. The ability to tap a global network of experts can, at least in theory, have a significant impact on an organization’s competitive strength. Before such a ‘network of experts’ can be used to its full potential however, a number of challenges related to knowledge markets seem to need solutions. About 10 years ago however, we could witness the entry of a new breed of company – calling themselves innovation intermediaries. These companies are built to profit from delivering the usefulness of knowledge networks to client (Seeker) companies. Though the use of such networks and markets have so far been uncommon outside of high-tech fields they are now starting to be seen used by companies in more mature environments.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the collaboration between SCA (a large Swedish corporation) and the innovation intermediary InnoCentive in order to create a better understanding of what kind of benefits can be derived from the use of an innovation intermediary, and how these benefits are best utilized. We also set out to identify relevant limitations of innomediary use and to seek to better understand how using an innomediary can fit a client company’s higher-order activities such as exploration and exploitation.Completion and Results: Our findings include that SCA are using InnoCentive mainly as a tool to solve highly specific problems and/or problems with a low degree of complexity that they encounter in their everyday activities. The challenges related to knowledge markets, we find, are avoided by keeping problem complexity low and problem modularity high for the problems sent out to the network. In addition, InnoCentive’s business model seems to eliminate costly negotiations between Seekers and Solvers. Using this kind of ‘market solution’ however, we argue, will put bounds on the usefulness of the network and makes it mainly suited as a tool for improving an organization’s exploitation capacity.

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Bakici, Tuba Yesim. "Open Innovation Intermediaries: Marketplaces for Innovation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/119545.

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La innovació oberta ofereix un nou recurs de cerca i obtenció d'innovació a empreses i ciutats fent que transcendeixin els seus límits i globalitzin el prove"iment d'innovació. Els intermediaris d'innovació oberta faciliten i donen suport als acords de col-laboració en materia d'innovació oberta. Aquests mediadors funcionen igualment com a mercats per a la innovació i com a font de solucions innovadores. La proliferació d'intermediaris online d'innovació oberta (com ara lnnocentive, Yet2.com, Atizo o NineSigma) que connecten empreses i individus per tal de facilitar la innovació oberta esta essent objecte d'una atenció creixent en els estudis publicats. Com a camp d'investigació, la innovació oberta és un ambit encara jove i els treballs publicats sobre el tema mostren la irrupció amb exit de diverses empreses per facilitar el comen;: amb la propietat intel-lectual (p. ex., idees, tecnologies i patents) a través de les plataformes. S'ha dedicat malta atenció al paper d'aquests intermediaris a les plataformes online amb estudis de cas específics. Tanmateix, cal un nivell de coneixement i de comprensió més profund de com funcionen els intermediaris d'innovació oberta en les plataformes online i en els ecosistemes d'innovació públics i, especialment, de les raons perles quals les persones hi participen. Aquesta tesi pretén desenvolupar i estendre la teoria existent sobre la innovació oberta posant l'accent en els intermediaris d'innovació oberta i els seus mecanismes subjacents,motius de suport i, en darrer terme, la seva presencia i el seu rol en !'ecosistema públic d'innovació. A partir de dades de conclusions empíriques i diversos estudis de cas, aquesta dissertació suggereix que els intermediaris d'innovació exerceixen un paper imprescindible en els processos d'innovació tant en el sector públic com en el sector privat. Les conclusions també motiven els gestors i els responsables polítics, en aportar idees per ajudar a accentuar el caracter innovador i competitiu de llurs organitzacions i ciutats. La innovación abierta ofrece un nuevo medio de búsqueda y obtención de innovación a empresas y ciudades haciendo que trasciendan sus límites y globalicen el abastecimiento de innovación. Los intermediarios de innovación abierta apoyan y facilitan los acuerdos de colaboración en materia de innovación abierta. Estos intermediarios son tanto mercados para la innovación como una fuente de soluciones innovadoras. La proliferación de intermediarios online de innovación abierta (p. ej. lnnocentive, Yet2.com, Atizo o NineSigma) que conectan a empresas e individuos para facilitar la innovación abierta está siendo objeto de una atención cada vez mayor en los estudios publicados. Como campo de investigación, la innovación abierta es un ámbito aún joven y los trabajos publicados sobre el tema muestran la irrupción con éxito de diversas empresas para facilitar el comercio con la propiedad intelectual (p. ej. ideas, tecnologías y patentes) a través de plataformas. Se ha dedicado mucha atención al papel de estos intermediarios en las plataformas online con estudios de caso específicos. Sin embargo, se precisa un nivel de conocimiento y de comprensión más profundo de cómo funcionan los intermediarios de innovación abierta en las plataformas online y en los ecosistemas de innovación públicos y, especialmente, de las razones por las que las personas participan. Esta tesis pretende desarrollar y extender la teoría existente sobre la innovación abierta poniendo el acento en los intermediarios de innovación abierta y sus mecanismos subyacentes, motivos de apoyo y, en última instancia, su presencia y su rol en el ecosistema público de innovación. A partir de datos de conclusiones empíricas y varios estudios de caso, esta disertación sugiere que los intermediarios de innovación desempeñan un papel imprescindible en los procesos de innovación tanto en el sector público como en el sector privado. Las conclusiones también motivan a los gestores y a los responsables políticos, al aportar ideas para ayudar a acentuar el carácter innovador y competitivo de sus organizaciones y ciudades. To achieve a high level of innovativeness, open innovation offers a novel means of sourcing innovation for companies and cities through opening their boundaries and globalizing the sourcing of innovation. Open innovation intermediary is one of the tools that support and facilitate the collaborative arrangements of open innovation. Open innovation intermediaries are both markets for innovation and a source of innovative solutions. The proliferation of on line open innovation intermediaries -i.e. Innocentive, Yet2.com, Atizo, NineSigma- that link multiple companies and individuals to facilitate open innovation is increasingly gaining the attention of the literature. Open innovation as a field of research is young, and the previous literature in this area has shown that a variety of companies have successfully emerged to facilitate intellectual property (e.g. idea, technology, patent) trade through platforms. Much attention has been devoted to the role of these intermediaries in online platforms with single case studies. However, more knowledge is needed about open innovation intermediaries and understanding how these intermediaries function in online platforms and public innovation ecosystems, and, especially why people participate. This thesis aims to develop and extend existing theory on open innovation with an emphasis on the open innovation intermediaries and their underlying mechanisms, supportive motives, and ultimately their existence and role in public innovation ecosystem. Drawing upon data from the empirical findings and several case studies, this dissertation suggest that innovation intermediaries play an imperative role in the innovation processes of both public and prívate sectors. The findings also motívate managers and policy makers with insights to enhance the innovativeness and competitiveness of their organizations and cities.

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Ölundh, Gunilla. "Modernising ecodesign : ecodesign for innovative solutions /." Stockholm, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3878.

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Fonoll, Almansa Xavier. "Innovative biomass fuelled SOFC's for polygeneration." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för kemivetenskap (CHE), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-36345.

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The supply of energy and the protection of the environment have been two of the most important problems to have affected mankind in recent decades.The waste management is become a very crucial environmental problem in the world, due to the ever increasing amount of waste material, domiciliary and industrial, generated. The main strategies for the waste management are the protection of the environment and used to produce energy. Lignin, the second most abundant component besides cellulose in biomass. In this study, lignosulfonate, is used as fuel in the solid oxide fuel cell to produce a power and heat, which is a byproducts from the wood pulp using sulfite pulping. To enhance the performance and conductivity of the biomass based fuel cell, the lignin was treated with hydroxides (Li/K) and chlorides (Fe2Cl3) at different temperature 200 -500 °C. The maximum obtained power density was about 20 mW/cm2. And the calculated electrical efficiency of the cell was about 30%. Also, this kind of biomass fuel was used in single component fuel cell and results were compared with three components fuel cell. The phase analysis, microstructure and conductivity of lignin was analysed by XRD, SEM and AC impedance technique. It has been concluded that a sulfonated lignin from waste of the paper industry can be used as a energy sources with fuel cell operation.

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