Abstract
Extensive research on resource-constrained innovation has been conducted by scholars and practitioners in recent years. An interesting research avenue is how firms explore the process of the new product development (NPD) and the ideas generation to foster resource-constrained innovation. However, despite the importance of product development and creative ideas under the resource-constraints contexts, innovation methods for applying to the resource-constrained innovation and designers have received comparatively less attention. As a remedy, this paper proposes a resource-constrained innovation method (RCIM) to generate ideas for the NPD. The RCIM is mainly divided into four sections: Developing the resource-constrained innovation approaches, developing the resource-constrained innovation dimensions, generating the creative ideas and evaluating the creative ideas. First, the resource-constrained innovation algorithms are developed based on success factors, characteristics, and attributes of resource-constrained innovation and the TRIZ (Teopия Peшeния Изoбpeтaтeльcкиx Зaдaч in Russian; Theory of Inventive Problem Solving in English) inventive principles via the systematic literature review (SLR). Second, the innovation dimensions are categorized to structure a target technology by means of the morphological analysis (MA) and the Derwent manual codes (DMCs) mapping based on collected patents. Third, the creative ideas are generated for the NPD by combining the innovation dimensions with the resource-constrained innovation approaches. Finally, the creative ideas are evaluated by the frugal criteria. The RCIM will stimulate designers’ creativity for achieving sustainability and innovation within constraint-based scenarios, MA and TRIZ.
Highlights
The world is seeing resource shortages, overproduction, environmental damage, and a plethora of other negative consequences as a result of the conventional approaches to product and service innovation, and people put those down to the fact that most developed countries have failed to embrace a resource-constrained method in the past [1]
We propose a novel innovation method based on a structured perspective of MA and TRIZ to help designers in the process of product development under the resource-constrained contexts
This paper aims to explore the process of new product development (NPD) and design product architecture to foster resource-constrained innovation under emerging markets or sustainability
Summary
The world is seeing resource shortages, overproduction, environmental damage, and a plethora of other negative consequences as a result of the conventional approaches to product and service innovation, and people put those down to the fact that most developed countries have failed to embrace a resource-constrained method in the past [1]. Resource-constrained innovation is the ability of a product, service, practice or process to ‘do better with fewer resources for more people’, i.e., to create significantly more value while minimizing the use of resources [2]. It is characterized by: Sustainable [3], resource-constrained [4,5], scarcity-induced or minimalist [6,7], reuse of existing components and ease of use [8]. Chinese CBM extraction technology is a prime example of how the RCIM can play a significant role in generating creative ideas for resource-constrained innovation. We follow Weyrauch and Herstatt (2016) [23], and use three criteria to determine that Chinese CBM extraction technology can be developed by the RCIM
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