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Frugal innovation
About: Frugal innovation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 472 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9290 citations.
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31 Jan 2021
TL;DR: Surdurulebilirlik problemlerimizin artmasi ile birlikte surduruleBILirlik konularina iliskin kavramlar da buyuk ilgi cekmeye baslamistir as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Surdurulebilirlik problemlerimizin artmasi ile birlikte surdurulebilirlik konularina iliskin kavramlar da buyuk ilgi cekmeye baslamistir. Bu problemlerin cozumu gunluk rutinlerimiz, is modellerimiz, tuketim davranisimiz gibi bircok alanda radikal degisiklikler yapmayi gerektirir ve bir dizi arastirma alaninin acar. Bu calismada, tutumlu inovasyon yaklasimlarinin tedarik zincirlerine eklenmesi ile birlikte tedarik zincirlerinin ve tedarik zinciri yonetimi yaklasimlarinin nasil etkilendiginin anlasilmasi hedeflenmistir. Bu hedef dogrultusunda Web of Science ve Scopus vertabanlarinda taranan yayinlara dayali bibliometrik bir calisma yapilmistir. Temel kavramlar ve bu kavramlar arasindaki iliski ortaya konulmustur. Sonuclar tutumlu inovasyonun genellikle surdurulebilirlik, kapali cevrim tedarik zincirleri, yesil urunler ve dongusel ekonomi ile iliskilendirildigini gostermektedir. Tasarim kavrami yazinda ihmal edilmis olarak gorunmektedir. Tutumlu inovasyonlar cok kisitli ve kolayca erisilebilir kaynaklarla gerceklestirildiginden tasarimcilari da gerekli kaynaklara daha fazla erisimi olan meslektaslarindan daha yaratici olmak durumundadirlar. Bu nedenle, ileride tedarik zinciri ile iliskilendirilmis tasarim sureclerine dair daha fazla calismanin gorulmesi beklenebilir.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a generic process model was developed to identify frugal patent candidates, which can be applied to a different industry successfully, such as the field of small household appliances.
Abstract: Identifying ideas for frugal innovations could substantially support engineers and managers in their work. Patents may be a promising source of ideas for frugal innovations. The purpose of this paper is to show how patents of this kind can be identified.,Prior work has developed a generic process model to identify frugal patent candidates. They use semantic analysis and a frugal thesaurus for searching and characterizing frugal patent candidates. The question is, whether and how this process model can be applied to a different industry successfully? The field of small household appliances is selected as a testbed because it is known for including frugal innovations while having a different business model than the industrial field in which the thesaurus was developed.,Applying the process model leads to a number of 22 strongly frugal patent candidates, which are manually evaluated based on three frugal characteristics. Due to this analysis, a high fraction of the candidates could be identified as frugal patents, which validates the process model. In addition, this paper outlines several options for enhancing the process model, e.g. by separating between a frugal search and a frugal evaluation thesaurus.,The process model to identify frugal patent candidates can be used by engineers and technology managers to find ideas for frugal innovations. This paper not only shows its applicability in the industry of small household appliances but gives the basis for its successful transfer to other industries.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show the connection between sustainability, frugal innovations and household appliances in the form of washing machines in industrialized countries and give an indication of the sustainable development of an everyday product as a frugally innovation in the industrialized countries.
Abstract: Sustainability is an internationally discussed topic in the development of products and services. Frugal innovations aim to conserve resources in the manufacture and use of such products and services. It can therefore be assumed that the areas of sustainability and frugal innovation overlap. This work is intended to show the connection between sustainability, frugal innovations and household appliances in the form of washing machines in industrialized countries. For the analysis, the characteristics of frugal innovations are compared with the requirements of washing machines in industrial nations and then the parallels to the social development goals (SDG) are determined as characteristics for sustainability. The existing literature will be reviewed for evaluation. The aim of the work is to show the connection and give an indication of the sustainable development of an everyday product as a frugal innovation in the industrialized countries.