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

Knowledge Management

Intelligent Manufacturing in the Context of Industry 4.0: A Review

House of Quality

Eric Ries was born in September 1978. He graduated from Yale University and moved to silicon Valley in the beginning of the millennium. He pioneered the philosophy of Lean Startup, based on his experience with multiple startups, primary being IMVU which he co-founded along with Will Harvey in 2004. Eric Ries originated his Lean Startup philosophy after getting inspired from the Japanese Philosophy of Lean Manufacturing.

The Lean Startup:How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

There is consensus that modularity has many benefits from cost savings due to increased commonality to enabling a higher variety of products. Full modularity is, however, not always achievable. How engineering systems and products whose design is heavily influenced by technical constraints, such as weight or size limitations, tend to exhibit rather integral architectures is shown in this study. For this, two metrics are defined on the basis of a binary design structure matrix (DSM) representation of a system or product. The non-zero fraction (NZF) captures the sparsity of the interrelationships between components between zero and one, while the singular value modularity index (SMI) captures the degree of internal coupling, also between zero and one. These metrics are first developed using idealized canonical architectures and are then applied to two different product pairs that are functionally equivalent, but different in terms of technical constraints. Empirical evidence is presented that the lightweigh...

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Degree of Modularity in Engineering Systems and Products with Technical and Business Constraints

Background
One of the goals of most undergraduate engineering curricula is to prepare students to solve openended design problems. Solving design problems requires applying technical knowledge to create original ideas and turn those into practical applications. However, the impact of engineering curricula on the innovation capabilities of undergraduate engineers is not well understood.

Purpose (Hypothesis)
This study seeks to provide insights into the research question of whether freshman undergraduate engineering students can be more innovative than seniors. Innovation is measured in terms of the originality of the solutions they propose for an open-ended design problem, as well as the technical feasibility of those solutions for practical application.

Design/Method
Freshman- and senior-level undergraduate engineering students were tasked with developing solutions to a specific design problem (a next-generation alarm clock). Both levels of students used a modified 6-3-5/C-sketch method for generating concepts. A fraction of both the freshman and the senior students also received innovation enhancement. Resulting concepts were analyzed for originality and technical feasibility.

Results
Freshman students generated concepts that were significantly more original than those of seniors, with no significant difference in quality or technical feasibility of the concepts generated by the two levels of students.

Conclusions
Within the limitations of the study, the findings suggest that freshman engineering students can be more innovative than their senior-level counterparts. This motivates the need for additional studies to investigate the effect of factors such as skill acquisition and design curricula on the innovation capabilities of students.

An Experimental Investigation of the Innovation Capabilities of Undergraduate Engineering Students

https://idc.sutd.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/Fundamental-studies-in-Design-by-Analogy.pdf

Fundamental studies in Design-by-Analogy: A focus on domain-knowledge experts and applications to transactional design problems

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Katja Hölttä-Otto

Papers

Degree of Modularity in Engineering Systems and Products with Technical and Business Constraints

An Experimental Investigation of the Innovation Capabilities of Undergraduate Engineering Students

Fundamental studies in Design-by-Analogy: A focus on domain-knowledge experts and applications to transactional design problems

Advances in product family and product platform design: Methods & applications

Modular product platform design