How to foster innovation? Findings and hypotheses for collaborations between research and industry

Journal
Proceedings of the international design conference  
First published in
DS  
Number in series
92
Volume
4
Start Page
1945
End Page
1956
Citation
Proceedings of International Design Conference, DESIGN 4: 1945-1956 (2018)
Contribution to Conference
15th International Design Conference, DESIGN 2018  
Publisher DOI
10.21278/idc.2018.0484
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85055134312
Publisher
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
This paper stresses the importance of collaborations to foster innovation and highlights the need for a shared understanding of innovation. To support successful collaboration we outline essential success factors and formulate hypotheses to improve collaborations focussing on SMEs. A model is introduced, allowing the identification of fields and measures to foster innovation. In addition, the concept of Product Generation Engineering is proposed to analyse past and plan future innovation activities. The discussion and hypotheses are addressed to researchers in the field of product engineering.
Subjects
Collaboration
Design practice
Open innovation
Small and medium size enterprise (SME)
DDC Class
600: Technik
More Funding Information
Sections of the research presented in this contribution are part of the project Synfonie funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the program “Right of way for small firm sector, innovation networks” (01MI1707) and managed by the Project Management Agency German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the project InnoLink funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony within the program "Europe for Lower Saxony" (ZW6-85003676).