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Nelliene Molenaar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Innovation Process of new ventures driven by sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Duygu Keskin, J C Diehl, Nelliene MolenaarAbstract:Abstract Since the Brundtland report appeared in 1987 various approaches to realising sustainable consumption and production have come into practice. While more traditional approaches like Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability often emphasize optimizing existing products, Processes and businesses; more radical approaches like Product-Service Systems and System Innovation for Sustainability emphasize developing new innovative products and services with higher environmental gains. Although these studies increased our understanding of sustainability in relation to product design, they are criticized for failing to draw on existing theoretical frameworks in the organizational Innovation literature ( Berchicci, 2005 ). This paper seeks to explore the Innovation Process within new ventures driven by sustainability since 1) conventional wisdom suggests that young and new firms have advantages in Innovation ( Acs and Audretsch, 1990 ) and as such they are the potential candidates of offering radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability; and 2) there are few studies that address exploiting sustainable product ideas through new organizations. The paper reports on the results of an explorative study involving the use of generative techniques during 19 individual semi-structured interviews with eight entrepreneurs and seven Innovation support organizations. The results suggest that the relative impact of internal and external factors on the Innovation Process change over time as the new organization forms. In addition, creating new businesses from sustainability ideals is influenced by the firms' ability in understanding and managing the differences between intended and created value and in finding an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals.
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Innovation Process of new ventures driven by sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Duygu Keskin, J C Diehl, Nelliene MolenaarAbstract:Abstract Since the Brundtland report appeared in 1987 various approaches to realising sustainable consumption and production have come into practice. While more traditional approaches like Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability often emphasize optimizing existing products, Processes and businesses; more radical approaches like Product-Service Systems and System Innovation for Sustainability emphasize developing new innovative products and services with higher environmental gains. Although these studies increased our understanding of sustainability in relation to product design, they are criticized for failing to draw on existing theoretical frameworks in the organizational Innovation literature ( Berchicci, 2005 ). This paper seeks to explore the Innovation Process within new ventures driven by sustainability since 1) conventional wisdom suggests that young and new firms have advantages in Innovation ( Acs and Audretsch, 1990 ) and as such they are the potential candidates of offering radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability; and 2) there are few studies that address exploiting sustainable product ideas through new organizations. The paper reports on the results of an explorative study involving the use of generative techniques during 19 individual semi-structured interviews with eight entrepreneurs and seven Innovation support organizations. The results suggest that the relative impact of internal and external factors on the Innovation Process change over time as the new organization forms. In addition, creating new businesses from sustainability ideals is influenced by the firms' ability in understanding and managing the differences between intended and created value and in finding an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals.
Duygu Keskin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Innovation Process of new ventures driven by sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Duygu Keskin, J C Diehl, Nelliene MolenaarAbstract:Abstract Since the Brundtland report appeared in 1987 various approaches to realising sustainable consumption and production have come into practice. While more traditional approaches like Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability often emphasize optimizing existing products, Processes and businesses; more radical approaches like Product-Service Systems and System Innovation for Sustainability emphasize developing new innovative products and services with higher environmental gains. Although these studies increased our understanding of sustainability in relation to product design, they are criticized for failing to draw on existing theoretical frameworks in the organizational Innovation literature ( Berchicci, 2005 ). This paper seeks to explore the Innovation Process within new ventures driven by sustainability since 1) conventional wisdom suggests that young and new firms have advantages in Innovation ( Acs and Audretsch, 1990 ) and as such they are the potential candidates of offering radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability; and 2) there are few studies that address exploiting sustainable product ideas through new organizations. The paper reports on the results of an explorative study involving the use of generative techniques during 19 individual semi-structured interviews with eight entrepreneurs and seven Innovation support organizations. The results suggest that the relative impact of internal and external factors on the Innovation Process change over time as the new organization forms. In addition, creating new businesses from sustainability ideals is influenced by the firms' ability in understanding and managing the differences between intended and created value and in finding an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals.
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Innovation Process of new ventures driven by sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Duygu Keskin, J C Diehl, Nelliene MolenaarAbstract:Abstract Since the Brundtland report appeared in 1987 various approaches to realising sustainable consumption and production have come into practice. While more traditional approaches like Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability often emphasize optimizing existing products, Processes and businesses; more radical approaches like Product-Service Systems and System Innovation for Sustainability emphasize developing new innovative products and services with higher environmental gains. Although these studies increased our understanding of sustainability in relation to product design, they are criticized for failing to draw on existing theoretical frameworks in the organizational Innovation literature ( Berchicci, 2005 ). This paper seeks to explore the Innovation Process within new ventures driven by sustainability since 1) conventional wisdom suggests that young and new firms have advantages in Innovation ( Acs and Audretsch, 1990 ) and as such they are the potential candidates of offering radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability; and 2) there are few studies that address exploiting sustainable product ideas through new organizations. The paper reports on the results of an explorative study involving the use of generative techniques during 19 individual semi-structured interviews with eight entrepreneurs and seven Innovation support organizations. The results suggest that the relative impact of internal and external factors on the Innovation Process change over time as the new organization forms. In addition, creating new businesses from sustainability ideals is influenced by the firms' ability in understanding and managing the differences between intended and created value and in finding an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals.
J C Diehl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Innovation Process of new ventures driven by sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Duygu Keskin, J C Diehl, Nelliene MolenaarAbstract:Abstract Since the Brundtland report appeared in 1987 various approaches to realising sustainable consumption and production have come into practice. While more traditional approaches like Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability often emphasize optimizing existing products, Processes and businesses; more radical approaches like Product-Service Systems and System Innovation for Sustainability emphasize developing new innovative products and services with higher environmental gains. Although these studies increased our understanding of sustainability in relation to product design, they are criticized for failing to draw on existing theoretical frameworks in the organizational Innovation literature ( Berchicci, 2005 ). This paper seeks to explore the Innovation Process within new ventures driven by sustainability since 1) conventional wisdom suggests that young and new firms have advantages in Innovation ( Acs and Audretsch, 1990 ) and as such they are the potential candidates of offering radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability; and 2) there are few studies that address exploiting sustainable product ideas through new organizations. The paper reports on the results of an explorative study involving the use of generative techniques during 19 individual semi-structured interviews with eight entrepreneurs and seven Innovation support organizations. The results suggest that the relative impact of internal and external factors on the Innovation Process change over time as the new organization forms. In addition, creating new businesses from sustainability ideals is influenced by the firms' ability in understanding and managing the differences between intended and created value and in finding an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals.
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Innovation Process of new ventures driven by sustainability
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Duygu Keskin, J C Diehl, Nelliene MolenaarAbstract:Abstract Since the Brundtland report appeared in 1987 various approaches to realising sustainable consumption and production have come into practice. While more traditional approaches like Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability often emphasize optimizing existing products, Processes and businesses; more radical approaches like Product-Service Systems and System Innovation for Sustainability emphasize developing new innovative products and services with higher environmental gains. Although these studies increased our understanding of sustainability in relation to product design, they are criticized for failing to draw on existing theoretical frameworks in the organizational Innovation literature ( Berchicci, 2005 ). This paper seeks to explore the Innovation Process within new ventures driven by sustainability since 1) conventional wisdom suggests that young and new firms have advantages in Innovation ( Acs and Audretsch, 1990 ) and as such they are the potential candidates of offering radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability; and 2) there are few studies that address exploiting sustainable product ideas through new organizations. The paper reports on the results of an explorative study involving the use of generative techniques during 19 individual semi-structured interviews with eight entrepreneurs and seven Innovation support organizations. The results suggest that the relative impact of internal and external factors on the Innovation Process change over time as the new organization forms. In addition, creating new businesses from sustainability ideals is influenced by the firms' ability in understanding and managing the differences between intended and created value and in finding an overlap between customer benefits and clearly defined (prioritized) sustainability goals.
K Galanakis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Innovation Process make sense using systems thinking
Technovation, 2006Co-Authors: K GalanakisAbstract:Abstract Several theories have been developed and try to communicate to managers how Innovation occurs in a firm and which factors affect the outcome of this Process. These theories come from different perspectives that either focus on management, economic or social sciences and create a complex net. This complexity often makes managers take a decision, the outcome of which contradicts their original aims. The objectives of this paper are to communicate Innovation theory to the different actors in the system under a common perspective and to reveal the complexity of Innovation systems. The new concept has at its centre the firm, which is the generator and promoter of Innovations in the market, the industrial sector and the nation. The model's main focus is the Knowledge Creation from public or industrial research; the New Product Design and Development Process, and the Product Success in the market. This Process is affected by other internal factors of the firm as well as by the National Innovation Environment. This Innovation system has been codified, under a system dynamics approach, to create a model, the ‘Creative Factory’ that includes all the aspects that academia, a firm or the policy making bodies need to consider around Innovation activity.
Pia Lindahl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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key elements for implementing a strategic sustainability perspective in the product Innovation Process
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013Co-Authors: Sophie Hallstedt, Anthony Thompson, Pia LindahlAbstract:Abstract This article aims to present identified key elements for successful implementation of a strategic sustainability perspective in the early phases of the product Innovation Process. In-depth interview studies were conducted in six companies within the same corporate group. These, together with a review of literature, previous research and company documents, were a foundation for evaluating if and how a strategic sustainability perspective has been successfully implemented on a day-to-day basis in the product Innovation Processes of the studied companies. The results are divided into strengths and challenges of the companies with regard to implementing a strategic sustainability perspective in the product Innovation Process. From this research, eight key elements for successful implementation of a strategic sustainability perspective have been identified. These elements are divided into four categories: organization, internal Processes, roles, and tools. It is posited that incorporating these key elements into product Innovation Processes will encourage a company to have a strategic sustainability perspective, which will support the company's long-term success.
