Could a frugal approach offer long term benefits for healthcare provision?
Could the frugal approach adopted during the pandemic to rapidly develop new healthcare products and services offer long lasting benefits to the sector? This is the question discussed by authors Cadeddu, Ahuja and Alami in their paper exploring how...
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What is the business model for autonomous vehicles? Work with or compete with traditional private cars?
Considerable investment is being made in autonomous vehicles, but it is the business model that will determine if they win or fail, says Dr Maurizio Catulli.
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Digital fabrication maker response to COVID-19
The rapid spread of Covid-19 has led to an unprecedented bottom-up, distributed, frugal innovation response from individuals and maker communities worldwide who have rapidly developed and distributed crisis-critical items, filling shortages and providing a stop-gap solution for the disrupted...
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Assessing innovation and technology management capabilities in an organisation
To extract best value from investments in technology and innovation, managers need to address a wide range of aspects. The emerging ISO standards provide an opportunity for improved tools to assist. One such tool, the Innovation Technology Management (ITM)...
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Integrating sustainable value thinking into technology forecasting: a configurable toolset
Sustainable value gives longer term business return because it delivers the triple bottom line of economic, environmental and social value. However, current assessment methods are essentially audits and can only be used when every detail of an innovation are...
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Usability testing of new COVID-19 workplace test kits
Testing for COVID-19 can provide reassurance, even if the result is positive, explains Val Lynch of AND Technology Research, the company provided usability testing to answer 3 questions for the client.
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