How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology

A literature and practice review to develop sustainable business model archetypes

Industry 4.0: A Survey on Technologies, Applications and Open Research Issues

* Starting from Need* Evolution of the Toyota Production System* Further Development* Genealogy of the Toyota Production System* The True Intention of the Ford System* Surviving the Low-Growth Period

Toyota production system : beyond large-scale production

A System Quality Attributes Ontology for Product-Service Systems Functional Measurement Based on a Holistic Approach

In this paper, we discuss the requirements for an agent- and role-based planning approach for flexible automation at advanced production systems. Special attention is given to balanced automation systems involving humans cooperating and/or collaborating with robots, and to processes interoperability between human agents and artificial (robot) agents towards flexible production system. This application context combines the research needs from fields of the Operator 4.0, Collaborative Robotics, Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Control. We provide a brief overview of the contextualized state-of-the-art and discuss approaches towards flexible automation in advanced production systems.

An Agent- and Role-based Planning Approach for Flexible Automation of Advanced Production Systems

Innovation ecosystems (IE) have increasingly gaining importance due to their potential to leverage regional development. In a previous research, authors have translated into processes how current IEs have been built or emerged. This process-based model can be used for building new or support the analysis of existing IEs. In order to evaluate the completeness of this model, this paper presents its mapping against the ARCON reference model considering that an IE can be seen as special type of Collaborative Network. Given the particularities of IEs, this paper also provides some elements of reflection that may be taken into account in future ARCON evolutions.

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Innovation Ecosystems: A Collaborative Networks Perspective

https://research.chalmers.se/publication/512452/file/512452_Fulltext.pdf

Circular Lean Product-Service Systems Design: A Literature Review, Framework Proposal and Case Studies

A Green Virtual Enterprise (GVE) is an emerging sustainable manufacturing and logistics networked enterprise model focused on offering, delivering and recovering green products to/from the market, under a lifecycle thinking and supported by its source network. In this paper, a GVE Breeding Environment Reference Framework is proposed as a common architectural framework offering a clear approach for conceiving sustainable and fully flexible forward and reverse supply networks, within a breeding environment context, based on a set of five building blocks: targets, main actors, operating principles, lifecycle and supporting technologies, to create and manage GVEs.

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David Romero

Papers

A System Quality Attributes Ontology for Product-Service Systems Functional Measurement Based on a Holistic Approach

An Agent- and Role-based Planning Approach for Flexible Automation of Advanced Production Systems

Innovation Ecosystems: A Collaborative Networks Perspective

Circular Lean Product-Service Systems Design: A Literature Review, Framework Proposal and Case Studies

Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environment Reference Framework