Experience In Product Development Research Articles

A Qualitative Study of Biomedical Engineering Student Critical Reflection During Clinical Immersion Experiences.

Clinical immersion experiences provide engineering students with opportunities to identify unmet user needs and to interact with clinical professionals. These experiences have become common features of undergraduate biomedical engineering curricula, with many published examples in the literature. There are, however, few or no published studies that describe rigorous qualitative analysis of biomedical engineering student reflections from immersion programs. Fifteen reflection prompts that align with program learning goals were developed and structured based on the DEAL model for critical reflection. Undergraduate participants in a summer immersion program responded to these prompts throughout five weeks of clinical rotations. Data from two summer cohorts of participants (n = 20) were collected, and thematic analysis was performed to characterize student responses. Students reported learning about key healthcare topics, such as medical insurance, access to healthcare (and lack thereof), stakeholder perspectives, and key medical terminology and knowledge. Most reflections also noted that students could apply newly gained medical knowledge to biomedical engineering design. Further, clinical immersion provided students with a realistic view of the biomedical engineering profession and potential areas for future professional growth, with many reflections identifying the ability to communicate with a variety of professionals as key to student training. Some students reflected on conversations with patients, noting that these interactions reinvigorated their passion for the biomedical engineering field. Finally, 63% of student reflections identified instances in which patients of low socioeconomic status were disadvantaged in health care settings. Clinical immersion programs can help close the gap between academic learning and the practical experience demands of the field, as design skills and product development experience are becoming increasingly necessary for biomedical engineers. Our work initiates efforts toward more rigorous analysis of students' reactions and experiences, particularly around socioeconomic and demographic factors, which may provide guidance for continuous improvement and development of clinical experiences for biomedical engineers.

Bringing Innovation to Fruition: Insights From New Trademarks

AbstractWe build a novel comprehensive data set of new product trademarks as an output measure of product development innovation. We show that risk-taking incentives in CEO compensation motivate this type of innovation and that this innovation improves firm performance. Using an exogenous shock to executive compensation, we find that reductions in stock option compensation cause reductions in new product development. We also find that firms undertaking new product development experience increases in future cash flow from operations and return on assets. These findings suggest the importance of product development innovation to firms and new trademarks as a novel innovation measure.

Sustainable in Action: From Intention to Environmentally Friendly Practices in Makerspaces Based on the Theory of Reasoned Action

The steady growth of makerspaces to decentralized production enables access to new and previously unknown technologies for diverse users and thus equally promotes the social-ecological change in society. First, such facilities offer a physical space where ideas and innovations can be realized as prototypes or in small series. Secondly, they are also considered social spaces where people come together, exchange ideas, work collaboratively, and learn. The acquired knowledge is carried home and into peer groups outside the makerspaces. Therefore, in theory the maker scene has great potential for sustainable development especially in the educational and awareness raising context. However, there is a strong heterogeneity among makers not only in their intentions to use such places, but also in their educational background and experience in product development as well as in dealing with technology in general. It has been shown that makers certainly have an awareness of the need for sustainable development, however, this is not reflected in their actual making practices. Rather, makerspaces are characterized by high consumption of resources. A fundamental aspect here is the self-image of makers, in which sustainability plays a subordinate role. It is thus important to support individual production, which is associated with increasing consumption of resources in the early design phase, and to consider environmental aspects–even before 3D printers and laser cutters are switched on. In order to meet knowledge gaps and lack of motivation toward sustainable product creation in makerspaces, the ecoMaker project developed a theoretical framework that builds the bridge from knowledge to action. From this a concept for practical implementation is suggested that combines. Engineering processes and sustainability knowledge with established methods from the start-up scene transferred into tools and methods for the maker scene based on maker requirements. Those tools and methods are to be visibly installed at various places in the makerspace and target different stages of project ideas to help makers develop greener products and raise awareness of the makerspace as a place that promotes sustainable development. The elements have been co-developed with makers, applied in makerspaces and are freely available according to the open-source approach.

Product Development Experience Based on Kansei Engineering

Product Development Experience Based on Kansei Engineering

MRNA: what is the best purification method?

Although the potential of mRNA in therapies is seemingly endless, obtaining the quantities of synthetic mRNA needed for clinical treatment remains a bottleneck in large-scale manufacturing. Traditionally, purification of mRNA is achieved by a variety of methods – but what is the right method for your process? We sum up the pros and cons of five common methods in this <a class="fr-file" href="https://bioinsights.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/95a5f02cfa924aeda46aa19dddfb4cc2.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">poster</a>. <p class="focus-visible" data-focus-visible-added="">To find out more, you can read the full article <a class="" href="https://www.insights.bio/cell-and-gene-therapy-insights/journal/article/2090/Supporting-development-of-mRNA-based-therapies-by-addressing-large-scale-purification-challenges" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. <p data-focus-visible-added="" class="focus-visible">. <div class="authors authors-lg"><div class="author"><div class="author-img"><img src="https://bioinsights.blob.core.windows.net/uploads/655963e4c61d413aa270348acd382612.png" data-image="1"></div><div class="author-det"><h3 class="author-name">Kelly Flook, PhD</h3><h5 class="author-title">Senior Product Manager, Purification, Bioproduction Division, Thermo Fisher Scientific</h5> Kelly Flook is Senior Product Manager for Purification products within the Bioproduction Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Kelly has a PhD in Polymer and Analytical Chemistry from the University of Durham, UK. During her 15 years at Thermo Fisher, Kelly has gained extensive experience in product development across all scales of chromatography and related biological workflows. Kelly has a strong expertise in bead technology and bio-separations. Drawing from a diverse technical background, in her current role Kelly is responsible for new product development and commercialization of solutions across the downstream workflow. </div></div></div>

Differential Effects of a Firm's Product Development Experience for Product Performance

This study examines the effects of a firm's new product introduction experience and its product redesign experience on its product performance, measured by the owner satisfaction ratings. The research setting includes major (U.S. domestic and international) automobile firms competing in the U.S. market from 2005 to 2017. My analyses show empirically that an automobile firm's product redesign experience results in lower owner satisfaction ratings across its fleet of automobiles. However, an automobile firm's new product introduction experience, when combined with its product redesign experience, positively affects the owner satisfaction ratings across its fleet of automobiles. These empirical findings highlight the differential effects of a firm's product development experience (i.e., new product introduction and product redesign) on its product performance across its fleet of automobiles.

Product Experience and Learning to Identify Opportunities: Evidence from Mobile App Developers

This paper examines how firms identify opportunities from their product development experience and how such learning affects the launch of subsequent products. I develop a theoretical framework that focuses on how the breadth and depth of experience provides information on opportunities in uncertain environments. Specifically, I created the concept of functionality that captures what purposes firms’ products provide for the customers. I predict that product experience allows firms to learn about the underlying functionalities and they use such information to guide subsequent product launches. Using fine-grained data on mobile application developers in the US Apple Store ecosystem, I find that firms with greater functionality breadth in their prior product experience are more likely to launch new product, and the effect is largely in firms’ core functionalities rather than peripheral and new ones. In particular, these new product launches tend to highlight more of these core functionalities as opposed to recombining with new functionalities. These findings suggest that in uncertain environments, experience breadth has the surprising merit of enabling firms to gain greater clarity in their core functionalities through establishing the boundaries and connections of different functionalities.

New Space and Agile Innovation: Understanding transition to open innovation by examining innovation networks and moments

This paper is building a detailed understanding of the organisational structures and practices in SMEs' knowledge absorption from a network of innovation partners. In particular, it explores the relationship between the openness of innovation process through innovation networks and the development of organisational structures within firms, as well as its linkage to a regional sectoral environment. It proposes a new conceptual tool of “innovation moments”, to synthesise the key theoretical premises of knowledge management, organisational learning and absorptive capacity literatures. In order to study this vital nexus of phenomena, we propose to deploy a novel mixed methods approach of combining quantitative ego-centric Social Network Analysis (Ego-SNA) and qualitative derived narratives of product development experiences via a sensitising concept, to study the emergence and development of the New Space Sector in Scotland. The findings show that the type of the SME – “traditional” versus New Space and upstream versus downstream – is clearly related to the structure of the firms' ego-centric innovation networks and their position in the composite whole network. Furthermore, by using qualitative case study data we show that the firms' typology is also closely related to internal organisational features, in particular flattening hierarchical structures and the formalisation and standardisation within NPD processes. This paper argues that the interlinking of these two elements is poised to describe a cultural shift in the approach to innovation networking and new product development (NPD) process management, understanding of which is a critical element of examining Open Innovation in SMEs.

The evolution of high complexity companion testing for targeted and immuno-oncology.

The evolution of high complexity companion testing for targeted and immuno-oncology.

Fuzzy dual experience-based design evaluation model for integrating engineering design into customer responses

Experience-based design is a recently emerging method used to capture the emotional content of customer experiences. Both the engineer’s experiences and customer’s experiences for dual experiences are important in delivering high quality user-centred product design. To assess dual experiential design optimization, fuzzy decision tree and fuzzy cognitive map are integrated in engineering design perspectives. This study aims at optimizing complex interactions and experiential design system with imprecise relationships while quantifying the performance impact of engineering design efficiency on customer satisfaction. The experiment is conducted by utilizing sensitivity analysis of the three degrees of fuzzy membership function using a product mix-experience problem. The evaluation results show that this dual experience-based design approach can help R&D design, deliver high quality product development experiences and co-create value with customers to yield a high performance engineering design.

New Product Development—Experience from Distance Learning and Simulation-Based Training

This paper presents our experience teaching how to manage New Product Development (NPD) projects to students from several universities—members of an international school network. A combination of lectures, problem solving and hands-on experience provided by a Simulation-Based Learning platform made it possible for students from universities distributed around the globe to work as NPD teams that develop new products in a virtual environment.

Melissa Masters’s Response to “Imagining the Future of Medicine” Commentary

Ms. Masters is Director of Electrical, Software and Systems Engineering at Battelle and heads Battelle’s DeviceSecure Services. Ms. Masters has more than 15 years of experience in product development as a project manager, systems engineer and design engineer, serving as the project manager and lead systems engineer on medical device development and sustaining engineering programs. Ms. Masters is a voting member of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) working group on cybersecurity for medical devices and contributed to the vulnerability model for AAMI’s TIR 57. She has given conference presentations, been published and widely quoted on a variety of medical cybersecurity topics in AAMI Horizons, Mass Device, ExecutiveGov.com, and Fierce Medical Devices. In addition, Ms. Masters holds a Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC) and has a working knowledge of domestic and international regulatory requirements for medical devices.

How does product development experience and patent stock affect R&amp;D sourcing mode?

We explore how a firm’s product development experience and patent stock affect its R&D sourcing mode in China. On the one hand, product development experience breadth enables firms to develop great...

Interview with Donald E Ingber.

Interview with Donald E Ingber.

Failure experience in new product development and firm performance

This paper focuses on the relationships between failure experience in product development and two aspects of R&D intensive firms - research conversion efficiency (i.e. the transformation of Researc...

The Evolving Firm: How Dynamic and Operating Capabilities Interact to Enable Entrepreneurship

In this study, we expand our understanding of firm evolution by focusing on how operating and dynamic capabilities interact through endogenously led changes. The focus on endogenous change complements the current emphasis in the literature on how dynamic capabilities help firms cope with the risk of core rigidities following an exogenous shock. Our comparison of two collaborating firms shows that, at the operating capability level, firms build absorptive capacity in value networks during their product development experiences and this learning needs to be captured at the product portfolio planning level. When this learning is captured and transformed, product portfolio planning acts as a dynamic capability reconfiguring operating capabilities based on beliefs about follow‐on entrepreneurial opportunities. Under conditions of endogenous change, dynamic capabilities are guided by a proactive entrepreneurial logic, complementing the need for reactive adaptive responses in circumstances of exogenous change. A key implication is that dynamic capabilities have a more expansive and critical role in the adaptation of firms than previously considered. Our theorizing shows how interactions between dynamic and operating capabilities build the adaptive capacity of the organization.

2.5.3 Product Development Interrelationships

AbstractProduct development processes are driven by a tradeoff between customer, developer and market forces. Commercial consumer product development is very sensitive to market conditions and efforts to increase market share. Defense and aerospace product development is more sensitive to the government customer desire to manage cost, time and schedule of the development effort and to advance the technology. This paper examines the lessons learned from both the commercial and defense product development experiences and presents a unified approach that will respond to any combination of product development issues.

Improvement reviews in new product development

This research examines how organizations can use improvement reviews to enhance learning from product development experiences. We review learning related literature and highlight learning barriers that firms should attempt to minimize when conducting reviews. We then discuss two studies aimed at better understanding the effectiveness of improvement reviews. The first study suggests that improvement reviews can facilitate learning by leading to a reduction in the recurrence of people‐related problems, though reviews had no impact on reducing market or product related problems. The second study involved depth interviews with new product developers. Interview comments provide insights into improvement review best practices and shed light on why improvement reviews are sometimes ineffective. A set of managerial recommendations is provided.

The transfer and commercialization of university-developed medical imaging technology: opportunities and problems

The aging US population will increase the demand for cardiovascular care and thereby present opportunities for superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) medical instruments. This paper discusses a university-based attempt to transfer and commercialize technology that potentially could eliminate the technical limitations of SQUID devices and allow their use in typical clinical environments. Based on the experiences thus far, lessons can be drawn for technology transfer of university developed medical technologies. First, universities need to re-examine the issue of the incentives to publish versus the incentives to protect intellectual property. Failure to properly align these incentives is likely to weaken or eliminate the potential for a strong intellectual property position. Second, although a number of technology-transfer strategies are potentially available to universities, three factors are critical in making this selection: (1) the strength of proprietary position; (2) the stage of development; and (3) the breadth of potential applications for the technology. Moreover, university technology-transfer offices need to take a businesslike approach in identifying appropriate technology-transfer strategies that match the technology, the marketplace, and commercialization potential. For universities seeking to commercialize medical technologies it is critical to expand collaborations with medical professionals to validate the clinical application of the technology. Finally, partnerships with medical device companies should be pursued to gain experience in product development.

Work with and implementation of new concepts for management of product development—experiences for the Swedish Manufacturing Industry

AbstractExtensive organizational changes in the management of product development work of industrial companies are currently taking place. Speediness (time‐based competition) and/or ‘high’ quality (total quality) are emphasized and for this purpose concepts such as simultaneous, concurrent or integrated product development have been introduced. This paper describes a study of the importance of these concepts in 29 large Swedish manufacturing companies and how these companies deal with the implementation of the new product development concepts. In addition, three in‐depth studies have been carried out to enable a more detailed study to be made of the effects of the product development work on time and quality variables.