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Product Innovation Management. Intelligence, Discovery, Development
No full textThis book offers new insights into the complex set of activities and decisions of product innovation management. It provides concepts, methods, and tools that can help accelerate the introduction of successful products to the market in an increasingly competitive and changing business landscape. It also offers examples and case studies, and it is the result of more than 20 years of study, research, and consulting carried out by the two authors in the field of innovation management.
The book discusses the demanding challenges of product innovation and offers practitioners guidance on how to respond to these challenges. It presents a three-level framework (the “innovation pyramid”), which reflects the core components of a firm’s innovation capability: first, intelligence - absorbing information and knowledge from the outside world by looking beyond the familiar territories of the current market, technology, and customers; second, discovery - exploring opportunities for innovation through creative ideation and technology experimentation; and third, development - transforming opportunities into profitable new products and services
Management dell'innovazione di prodotto. Strategia, organizzazione e strumenti
No full textL’innovazione di prodotto è una sfida complessa che richiede competenze multidisciplinari e la capacità organizzativa di integrare attività molto diverse tra loro. Questo volume si propone di offrire concetti, metodi e strumenti per gestire in modo sistematico le attività di intelligence, discovery e development, fornendo un approccio integrato al management dell’innovazione di prodotto. Giunto alla sua seconda edizione, il libro rappresenta il risultato di oltre vent’anni di ricerche ed esperienze professionali degli autori. Ogni capitolo è stato arricchito con nuovi esempi e casi di studio, sia in ambito B2C che B2B. Inoltre, sono stati inseriti nuovi capitoli che approfondiscono l’open innovation, l’impatto dei prodotti intelligenti e connessi sui modelli di business e gli strumenti per la protezione della proprietà intellettuale.
Il volume si rivolge sia a studenti universitari che a professionisti e manager, con l’obiettivo di fornire le conoscenze e gli strumenti necessari per affrontare con competenza le sfide strategiche e organizzative dell’innovazione nelle imprese industriali
Environmental contingencies and sourcing choices: the evolution of Italian eyewear district
No full textAn inter- and transdisciplinary, multiscale and mixed methods pathway to study smart agriculture in Italy
No full textThis chapter aims to design such an inter- and transdisciplinary, multiscale and mixed method pathway to provide policy makers and stakeholders with a rationale framework of analysis for Smart Agriculture (SA) applied to the urban-rural relationships of several Italian case studies. The urban area of Pisa is situated near the coast in Tuscany and is made of a set of seven small towns. Agricultural areas in the metropolitan region are close to very urbanized and industrialized areas however, a deeply rooted rural tradition still resists. SA can be an experimental field where decision makers, civil society, academia and other actors cooperate within the proposed methodological framework to improve the urban-rural link in metropolitan regions. To date, multidisciplinary approaches on agri-urban region have mainly compared results from different disciplines regarding case study analyses. The promotion of peri-urban agriculture and rural-urban links is at the core of the pact
Contribution of periurban farming systems to local food systems: a systemic innovation perspective
Full text linkThe debate on food security has highlighted the connection between periurban farming systems (PFS) and local food systems (LFS) for academic research. Several researchers have called for in-depth analysis of the participation and impact of farmers in LFS, and the systemic innovation perspective can provide relevant analysis of the sustainability of this agro-food system. The objective of the current study is to investigate the integration of PFS into LFS from the systemic innovation perspective, by analysing systemic failures and merits that hinder or promote the contribution of PFS to LFS for farmers and commercial actors. The case study is the LFS of the urban Pisa region in central Italy. Results show that farmers there are adapting to urban pressure, which improves the sustainability of their farming practices. At the same time, commercial actors have a commercial opportunity to include local farmers in their economic strategy. Nevertheless, individual initiatives must be coordinated to support the sustainability of both LFS and PFS. This study thus developed an innovative method to identify systemic failures and merits for farmers and commercial actors to address sustainability strategies at the territorial level
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