Organisation of innovation projects in SMEs &amp;ndash; contribution to concept products in the design process

Christofol, Hervé; Delamarre, Anthony; Samier, Henri

doi:10.1504/ijpd.2009.023748

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“…Arfi, Enström, Sahut, and Hikkerova [45] proposed the knowledge-sharing platform to support a firm's ability to perform its knowledge-sharing scheme. SMEs, due to their relatively small size, have the potential to be agile [37], and the autonomy of projects can be adapted [68]. Furthermore, external involvements are important to support the NPD process.…”

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New Product Development Process Design for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Literature Review from the Perspective of Open Innovation

Iqbal

Suzianti

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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New product development (NPD) is essential for large, as well as small and medium, enterprises (SMEs). Despite its importance for the economy, challenges remain in the NPD in SMEs. Product success is related with the NPD process, so it is important for SMEs to be able to design their NPD process. This paper aims to identify SME’s NPD research topics, the characteristics of the NPD process in SMEs, and important aspects to be considered for NPD process design. The literature review is done with the analysis of 99 selected academic articles from Scopus and ScienceDirect. Content analysis, bibliographic analysis, and clustering method (based on Pearson’s correlation coefficient) are used to conduct the identification. Less-formal processes, informal strategic planning, limited resources, need technology support, and lack of capabilities in certain fields are some of the characteristics of SME’s NPD. Collaborative product development, competitive advantage, information and communication technology (ICT), concurrent engineering, quality function deployment, and continuous improvement are important keywords based on previous research in SME’s NPD. Design activities in NPD, collaboration and source of innovation, and process modelling, tools, and techniques appear to be important aspects related with the SME’s NPD process.

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New Product Development Process Design for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Literature Review from the Perspective of Open Innovation

Iqbal

Suzianti

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Vishnevskiy, Karasev, & Meissner, 2015). This lack of resources means they cannot create a department dedicated to futures and innovation with specialized researchers with the appropriate skills to study the future and enough information to analyze medium-term and long-term trends (Christofol, Delamarre, & Samier, 2009). The urgency of the present exacerbates this lack of resources, forcing SMEs to act immediately, putting off any behavior that focuses on the future, "such as planning and delaying gratification" (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004).…”

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“…While some design researchers (Selek, 2009;Yström & Karlsson, 2010;Mortati & Cruickshank, 2011;Rodríguez Donaire & García-Almiñana, 2012;De Lille, 2014) have examined issues related to the role of designers working in, for, or with SMEs, little is known about how design can support SMEs in exploring the future. Research by Delamarre et al (2005) and Christofol et al (2009), however, suggests that "concept products used in major companies are pertinent for providing [...] innovation in SMEs". These inquiries studied the making of two concept products by a medium-sized company, which collected a considerable number of trends and ideas of new products, resulting in twenty-nine strategic road maps and two patent applications.…”

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Developing DIVE, a Design-Led Futures Technique for SMEs

Sarmiento¹,

Pasman²,

Hultink³

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Philosophical Frameworks and Design Processes

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Futures techniques have long been used in large enterprises as designerly means to explore the future and guide innovation. In the automotive industry, for instance, the development of concept cars is a technique which has repeatedly proven its value. However, while big companies have broadly embraced futures techniques, small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have lagged behind in applying them, largely because they are too resourceintensive and poorly suited to the SMEs' needs and idiosyncrasies. To address this issue, we developed DIVE: Design, Innovation, Vision, and Exploration, a design-led futures technique for SMEs. Its development began with an inquiry into concept cars in the automotive industry and concept products and services in other industries. We then combined the insights derived from these design practices with elements of the existing techniques of critical design and design fiction into the creation of DIVE's preliminary first version, which was then applied and evaluated in two iterations with SMEs, resulting in DIVE's alpha version. After both iterations in context, it seems that DIVE suits the SMEs because of its compact and inexpensive activities which emphasize making and storytelling. Although the results of these activities might be less flashy than concept cars, these simple prototypes and videos help SMEs internalize and share a clear image of a preferable future, commonly known as vision. Developing DIVE thus helped us explore how design can support SMEs in envisioning the future in the context of innovation.

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Drivers of thoroughness of NPD tool use in small high-tech firms

Waal

Knott

2019

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management

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Organisation of innovation projects in SMEs – contribution to concept products in the design process

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New Product Development Process Design for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Literature Review from the Perspective of Open Innovation

New Product Development Process Design for Small and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Literature Review from the Perspective of Open Innovation

Developing DIVE, a Design-Led Futures Technique for SMEs

Drivers of thoroughness of NPD tool use in small high-tech firms

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