{"title":"Differences in Creating Product Innovations versus Process Innovations across European Industries","authors":"Matthias G. Will, R. Mellor","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3353821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3353821","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of 1,200 representative firms in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Slovak Republic was analysed, differentiating between product innovation and three different forms of process innovations. This data was joined to the quality of societal institutions of the relevant country. With respect to product innovations, institutional quality exhibits mediate effects through financing of R&D and the design of the organisational structure, with larger technical/R&D departments being found in firms in environments of high societal quality. However firms located in European countries with a relatively low institutional quality, develop predominantly more process innovations. Regarding industrial sector, the data reveals that firms in the wholesale and trade areas follow quite different innovation patterns compared to manufacturing/production. Manufacturing firms make predominantly product innovations, often financed by external sources, whereas firms in wholesale and trade make more process innovations and these tend to be financed by internal sources.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126958989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finclusion to Fintech: Fintech Product Development for Low-Income Markets","authors":"Mike McCaffrey, A. Schiff","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3034175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3034175","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is designed to help fintech innovators understand the unique money management strategies used by low-income people in the developing world. The paper is aimed to serve as a tool to help fintech providers design appropriate financial products that underserved individuals will want to use on a regular basis. In order to understand the needs and desires of low-income people, the paper presents detailed insights from 15 years of financial inclusion research, along with the latest industry data. In addition, through illustrative examples, informal money management techniques are compared to formal techniques used by high-income people. This comparison demonstrates why many informal financial tools are still the first choice for people in developing markets even where formal finance is available. The paper concludes by looking at some cutting-edge technological innovation in the fintech industry, and highlighting those that could better serve developing world markets.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"155 1-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116634611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Experiments in the Fuzzy Front End Using Prototyping Generates New Options","authors":"J. K. Christiansen, Marta Gasparin","doi":"10.23726/CIJ.2017.463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23726/CIJ.2017.463","url":null,"abstract":"The fuzzy front in product development is frequently mentioned as the most critical phase of the innovation process, and the five cases of successful design innovations here indicate that experiments and an experimental approach are generating positive outcomes. The experiments in the cases can be characterized as various forms of prototyping. Interestingly the prototyping and experiments took place in the very early phases of the innovation process, rather than later as often advised and interestingly experimentation in the cases here appears to be a vehicle for creating new options. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrates that prototyping can be considered as a punctuation device, as it offers those involved the option of opting out of ongoing processes, routines and engage in playful behavior by allowing for a freer experimentation with materials, processes, methods to challenge existing knowledge and explore potential solutions. In science, by contrast, experimentation generally is carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis, in other words it seems to be associated with testing options rather than creating them.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134345544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Achara Satayapaisal, C. Chansa-ngavej, Chanchai Bunchapattanasakda
{"title":"Determinants of Inter-Organizational Performance in Automotive Supply Chain","authors":"Achara Satayapaisal, C. Chansa-ngavej, Chanchai Bunchapattanasakda","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2959282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2959282","url":null,"abstract":"Activities related to performance are a crucial issue in automotive supply chains. With the scarce resources in highly competitive environment, the first step to improve supply chain performance is to know which characteristics of supply chain’s performance (herein “performance attributes”) are critical and should be specially focused. The performances in this research are structured from the coarser level to the more detailed level as performance elements, performance indicators, and performance attributes. Eighty-eight performance attributes related to the first tier suppliers in the Thai automotive supply chain are determined. They focused on business performance element and intangible elements (namely learning and growth, internal process, external structure, and trust). The critical factor index (CFI) method is used for determining the critical performance attributes. The results were analyzed from the viewpoints of overall responses and three separate management functional groups; namely top management, factory managers, and sales/marketing managers. The results reveal that there are both similarities and differences in critical performance attributes in different functional areas. “Trust” and “business performance” performance elements are the most critical and should be focused on. The largest number of critical performance attributes found in the “trust” performance element, belonging to the “professional-relationship” performance indicator, which is the trust between firm’s representatives and customers’ representatives.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131330812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer Product Design and Innovation: Past, Present and Future","authors":"R. Roy","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2857142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2857142","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarises some of the content and conclusions of a new book which discusses the innovation, design and evolution of six consumer products – bicycles, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, electric lamps, television and mobile (cell) phones – from their original inventions to the present. It discusses common patterns of innovation, how environmental concerns and legislation have influenced design, and some of the effects these products have had on the environment and society. The paper also uses lessons from the successes and failures of examples of these products to draw out guidelines for designers, engineers, marketers, managers and educators on how to design successful new products and to design for the environment. It concludes with trends and sustainability challenges for future consumer product design and innovation.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121269322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Shafiul Alam, Ahmed Yusuf, Abir Rahman, Inzamam-ul-haq, Nr Dhar
{"title":"Optimization of Machining Parameters for Minimizing Surface Roughness in Turning GFRP Composite Using ANN and PSO Methodology","authors":"Md. Shafiul Alam, Ahmed Yusuf, Abir Rahman, Inzamam-ul-haq, Nr Dhar","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2876184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2876184","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of surface roughness in determining the quality of finished products in any industrial application has an enormous impact on gaining competitive edge and establishing superiority. Thus, recognizing and understanding the factors influencing the resulted surface roughness are the crucial issues helping to achieve the desired goal in any competitive industrial environment. Fact is that machining process parameters are major factors affecting the outcome. This research is focused on determining the optimum machining parameters (cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut) which result in minimizing the surface roughness in turning glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) matrix composite using coated carbide insert. To understand the effects of machining parameters on surface roughness and to determine relationship between them; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has been employed. A multiple regression equation is used as objective function to determine the optimum values of inputs (cutting speed, feed, and depth of cut) using PSO formula and it yields an optimum value of surface roughness of 0.6252 µm. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has also been implemented to predict various level of surface roughness for different machining parameters. To predict the surface roughness (Ra), standard multilayer feed-forward back-propagation hierarchical neural network has been applied and the findings provide an overall value of coefficient of determination of 0.88881. These investigations of turning operation provide optimal process parameters for any desired value of surface roughness which result in gaining a competitive edge over others in any industrial application.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124429480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Globalization and Technological Capabilities: Evidence from Mexico's Patent Records ca. 1870-1911","authors":"Edward Beatty","doi":"10.4067/S0718-52862015000200003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-52862015000200003","url":null,"abstract":"Using a new database of all patents issues in Mexico between 1870 and 1911, this paper explores the impact of the vast wave of technology imports into Mexico during the nineteenth century period of globalization. Historians have established that massive technology imports made possible sustained economic growth and early industrialization during this period, but have not systematically explored the degree to which the skills and know-how embodied in new imported technologies stimulated adaptive and inventive activity in Mexico. Did imported technologies stimulate local technological creativity, or were Mexican technicians largely isolated from the adoption and use of imported techniques? The evidence shows that imports did stimulate patenting activity by Mexicans, although this response was modest in relation to increased patenting by inventors from North Atlantic countries. In general, Mexican inventors focused on activities outside the core technical advances on the global frontier, and often on activities that were more entrepreneurial than technical, although we can observe several important exceptions. These findings support the argument that technological capabilities were scarce in Mexico and local technicians had few opportunities to engage with and learn from imported know-how.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131764337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Project Failure: The Way Forward and Panacea for Development","authors":"Tarila Zuofa, Professor Edward Ochieng","doi":"10.5539/IJBM.V9N11P59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/IJBM.V9N11P59","url":null,"abstract":"There is an unambiguous relationship between development and the successful execution of projects as well associetal wellbeing. This paper examined the concept of project failure. The rationale was to identify the mainfactors responsible for project failure and suggest strategies aimed at curbing project failure and facilitatingdevelopment in the future. Data was obtained from a focus group comprising of eight project managementpractitioners in Nigeria. The results were recorded, transcribed and entered into the qualitative research softwareNVivo. Validity and reliability were achieved by first assessing the plausibility in terms of already existingknowledge on some of the issues raised by the focus group participants. The emerging key issues suggested thatproject failure may be contingent on several factors but established based on consensus that corruption and lackof professionalism were among the main causes of project failure in Nigeria. The main results were furthersynthesised into action points which included: the need for an introduction of governance mechanism toincorporate processes standard guidelines that supports projects to achieve their objectives, enshrining punitiveactions against erring project stakeholders who engage in corrupt and unethical practices.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126027287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis the Fight for Traditional Knowledge to Conform the Need of Documentation Relates to the 'Neem Case'","authors":"D. Debnath","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2259044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2259044","url":null,"abstract":"Neem has been patented widely. There have been numerous instances of challenges to neem patent applications which have been successful to revoking the patents granted, but a number of neem patents still exist. Since the 1980s, many neem related process and products have been patented in Japan, USA and European nations. The first US patent was obtained by Terumo Corporation in 1983 for its therapeutic preparation from neem bark. In 1971, US timber importer Robert Larson observed the tree's usefulness in India and began importing neem seed to his company headquarters in Wisconsin. Over the next decade he conducted safety and performance tests upon a pesticidal neem extract called Margosan-O. In 1985 Robert Larson, a US timber importer obtained a patent for his preparation of neem seed extract and the Environmental Protection Agency approved this product for use in US market. In 1988 Robert Larson sold the patent on an extraction process to the US Company W. R. Grace (presently Certis). Having gathered their patents and clearance from the Environmental Protection Agency, four years later, Grace commercialized its product by setting up manufacturing plant in collaboration with P. J. Margo Pvt. Ltd in India and continued to file patents from their own research in USA and other parts of world.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129325050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the Effectiveness of Variance Reduction Techniques in Manufacturing, Call Center and Cross-Docking Discrete Event Simulation Models","authors":"A. Adewunmi, U. Aickelin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2824948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2824948","url":null,"abstract":"Variance reduction techniques have been shown by others in the past to be a useful tool to reduce variance in Simulation studies. However, their application and success in the past has been mainly domain specific, with relatively little guidelines as to their general applicability, in particular for novices in this area. To facilitate their use, this study aims to investigate the robustness of individual techniques across a set of scenarios from different domains. Experimental results show that Control Variates is the only technique which achieves a reduction in variance across all domains. Furthermore, applied individually, Antithetic Variates and Control Variates perform particularly well in the Cross-docking scenarios, which was previously unknown.","PeriodicalId":280413,"journal":{"name":"IRPN: Product Development Processes (Topic)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121665589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}