Using Sustainability-Oriented Process Innovation to Shape Product Markets

Bustamante, Maria J.

doi:10.1142/s1363919620400010

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“…It was found that several firms are combining modular farms with conventional larger scale vertical farms; either starting directly with modular units or starting from larger farms and exploring the use of modular units. Once again, this approach has been highlighted as a way to differentiate from competitors in the market; aligning with previous studies on vertical farm market development, (e.g., Bustamante, 2020). As such, these tailored systems can create customized products to increase competitiveness and a unique profile in the retail market; (see e.g., Pine and Gilmore, 2014;Charters et al, 2017;Jürkenbeck et al, 2019;Sjölander-Lindqvist et al, 2020).…”

Section: Distributed Modular Systemssupporting

confidence: 62%

“…These have spawned from the need to expand their offerings, business models, and connect with consumers in different ways. In recent years, smallscale modular, in-store growing systems are also increasing in popularity and number in connection to residential, commercial, and retail spaces; see also (Bustamante, 2020;Butturini and Marcelis, 2020). These new systems employ new business models for ensuring that customers are provided with fresh plants or tailor-made functions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Growing-Service Systems: New Business Models for Modular Urban-Vertical Farming

Martin

Bustamante

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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To secure sustainable and resilient food systems, new approaches, innovations, techniques, and processes are needed. In recent years, urban farming firms have been developing and experimenting with innovative approaches to expand their offerings and connect with consumers in new ways. New business models are being developed to provide functions and services instead of traditional products to meet demands from consumers, retailers, and users. As such, modular growing systems are increasing in popularity to provide fresh produce, visual appeal, transparency, and other tailor-made functions and services in so-called “growing-service systems” (GSS). Using GSS approaches, firms are developing and providing modular and small-scale farms in restaurants, residential spaces, supermarkets, and other commercial spaces, often including a large degree of automation and optimization of digital solutions to remotely control their operation. Using qualitative methods, the aim of this study is to explore and analyze the development of these novel GSS systems, highlighting different strategies, business models, motivations, and challenges. The results illustrate the divergence in approaches to GSSs for vertical farming. This includes different scales of modular units and varying business models for capturing value from the combination of products and services. All of the systems include varying degrees of automation and digitalized solutions to ensure the services are monitored, which is done to improve growing conditions and improve the experience for the users. Business-to-business systems are being developed as both market expansion and awareness-building strategies, where modular units are provided as a rental or subscription model that includes a number of services. Business-to-consumer systems are being introduced as an alternative for consumers, particularly in urban areas, to have greater control and access over growing their own fresh produce. The modules are purchased by consumers, which includes a number of ongoing services from the GSS firms. By categorizing and exploring these systems, this article offers novel insights and a first endeavor to distinguish these new GSS systems in the growing segment of urban agriculture, controlled-environment agriculture, and product-service system literature.

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Section: Distributed Modular Systemssupporting

confidence: 62%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Growing-Service Systems: New Business Models for Modular Urban-Vertical Farming

Martin

Bustamante

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…For example, higher competitiveness and productivity might be reached via replacing human labour and decision making with robots, automation, or algorithms. This can be a threat to individual freedoms and rights, with implications for societal cohesion, employment, and well-being [35].…”

Section: Sustainability Oriented Innovation: Causes and Effectsmentioning

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Digital Transformation and Sustainable Oriented Innovation: A System Transition Model for Socio-Economic Scenario Analysis

2021

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Sustainability and digitalization are essential duties for companies to perform in the current socio-economic landscape due to risks caused by traditional manufacturing practices, and rules imposed by stakeholders and governments. Tools that help exploring uncertain future scenarios to address such a complex challenge are of vital importance for both businesses, governments, and financial institutions. This paper presents the IN4.0-SD, a novel system dynamics model to capture the dynamic interplay of industrial innovation, inequality, and inflation. The IN4.0-SD is a closed-economy System Dynamics model composed of three agents: sustainable oriented innovation business (SOIB), digital asset supplier business (DASB), and household. DASB and SOIB are both assumed to supply one product to the economy and fundamentally differ among each other in their business models. While the sustainable oriented innovation business produces and sells capital goods making revenue out of sales, digital asset supplier detaches the concept of production from sales moving toward an intangible economy, charging for a fee licence of their tools that can be distributed via a network economy. Simulations show the level of flexibility of the model in addressing a variety of scenarios, playing at the threshold of technology development, inequality rise, massive unemployment and providing an archetype for sustainable oriented innovation and digital transformation models. The findings suggested by the model analysis are used to infer conclusions for the wider society, including implications for sustainable oriented businesses and digital transformation. These are confirmed by previous studies, around the overall trend in wealth creation for large technology firms’ owners, potential impact for employment in the digital economy, and transformation for the labour market.

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“…The need for innovation in process improvement is crucial when we want to push the limits of the process to a new level. The importance of process innovation is discussed in many sources [7][8][9]. Often, process improvement -or innovation and problem-solving are separated.…”

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Radical Process Improvement by Systematic Approach to Overcome Problems on Custom Glass Eyes Manufacturing

Sojka

Lepšík

2023

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This paper deals with resolving problems with special orders of glass eyes by innovating the process step where the problem occurs. The problem is that when only a few complex eyes are ordered, many prototypes must be made to find glass that fits together and a suitable technique to get the demanded coloring of the iris. The Innovation by Increasing Ideality method based on TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) principles was used to radically improve the process in a way to overcome this problem. A solution was proposed from ideas and proposals generated by the use of the method and TRIZ tools. A new technique of layering resin with paint on the basic crystal eye was found as a possible solution. The technique was tested on several samples and compared with already known and used production methods. The comparison showed that the proposed solution could be used on very complex eyes with better results and lower costs. Also, this proposed technique can be easily improved to get even better results in the future.

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Using Sustainability-Oriented Process Innovation to Shape Product Markets

Cited by 7 publications

References 50 publications

Growing-Service Systems: New Business Models for Modular Urban-Vertical Farming

Growing-Service Systems: New Business Models for Modular Urban-Vertical Farming

Digital Transformation and Sustainable Oriented Innovation: A System Transition Model for Socio-Economic Scenario Analysis

Radical Process Improvement by Systematic Approach to Overcome Problems on Custom Glass Eyes Manufacturing

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