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  2. Productivity-improving technologies - Wikipedia

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    Productivity-improving technologies date back to antiquity, with rather slow progress until the late Middle Ages. Important examples of early to medieval European technology include the water wheel, the horse collar, the spinning wheel, the three-field system (after 1500 the four-field system—see crop rotation) and the blast furnace.

  3. Smart manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Big data analytics allows an enterprise to use smart manufacturing to predict demand and the need for design changes rather than reacting to orders placed. [2] Some products have embedded sensors, which produce large amounts of data that can be used to understand consumer behavior and improve future versions of the product. [9] [10] [11]

  4. Scaling of innovations - Wikipedia

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    Scaling is regarded the last step after the discovery, proof of concept and piloting of an innovation. In business it is often used as maximizing operational scale of the product. [ 1 ] This technology, or project-focused scaling takes products and services as the point of departure and wants to see those to go scale.

  5. Innovation management - Wikipedia

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    A pushed process is based on existing or newly invented technology that the organization has access to. The goal is to find profitable applications for the already-existing technology. A pulled process, by contrast, is based on finding areas where customers' needs are not met and finding solutions to those needs. [6]

  6. Technological innovation - Wikipedia

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    is a continuous process, within an internal or external venture, build-out to create value with innovation; starts with the ideation process and ends up with the commercialization of a viable product or service, in response to a proven market need; is a guide for the venture management to decide what technology directions to take, based on ...

  7. Product innovation - Wikipedia

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    Product innovation is the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services. This is broader than the normally accepted definition of innovation that includes the invention of new products which, in this context, are still considered innovative.

  8. New product development - Wikipedia

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    A cross-functional innovation management committee is a team of individuals from different company departments, including marketing, engineering, design, manufacturing, and research and development, who are responsible for overseeing and managing the new product development process. This committee helps to ensure that all aspects of new product ...

  9. Innovation - Wikipedia

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    Based on their survey, Baragheh et al. attempted to formulate a multidisciplinary definition and arrived at the following: "Innovation is the multi-stage process whereby organizations transform ideas into new/improved products, service or processes, in order to advance, compete and differentiate themselves successfully in their marketplace" [8]