Managing Innovation in Highly Restrictive Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Against the Odds. Innovation in Latin American SMEs

   • Jorge Rodriguez-Martinez

   Pages 1-33

3. Use of Lean-Sigma as a Problem-Solving Method in a Restrictive Environment

   • Noé Alba-Baena, Francisco Estrada-Orantes, Christian Valenzuela-Reyes

   Pages 35-57

4. Creation of Technology-Based Companies: Challenges to Innovate in the Manufacturing Sector of Medical Devices, the Case of Baja California, México

   • Karina C. Arredondo-Soto, Teresa Carrillo-Gutiérrez, Marcela Solís-Quinteros, Luis A. Ávila-López

   Pages 59-80

5. Applying Action Research to Academic Patent-Licensing Path

   • Daniel Barrón-Pastor, Norma García-Calderón, Julio Alcantar

   Pages 81-97

6. Mass Customization Process in Companies from the Housing Sector in Brazil

   • D. C. Fettermann, G. L. Tortorella, Carlos M. Taboada

   Pages 99-118

7. A Talent Management Model for Innovation and Competitiveness in Complex Domains: A Case Study in the Latin American Energy Sector

   • Yasmín Hernández, Ramón Zatarain, Lucía Barrón

   Pages 119-142

8. The Role of ICT in Educational Innovation

   • Pedro García-Alcaraz, Valeria Martínez-Loya, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez

   Pages 143-165

9. A Series of Recommendations for Industrial Design Conceptualizing Based on Emotional Design

   • David Cortés Sáenz, Carlos Eduardo Díaz Domínguez, Pere Llorach-Massana, Ainoa Abella García, Juan Luis Hernández Arellano

   Pages 167-185

10. Indexing and Mapping Examples of Heuristics Compiled from TRIZ

    • Emanuela L. Silveira, Marco A. de Carvalho, Júlio C. de Carvalho

    Pages 187-206

11. The Use of Affective Computing in the Conceptual Design Stage of New Products

    • Agustín Job Hernández-Montes, Guillermo Cortés-Robles, Giner Alor-Hernández, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz

    Pages 207-228

12. Taking Advantage of the Innovation in Die Service Design

    • María Blanca Becerra-Rodríguez, Diana Jiménez-Juan, Arturo Hernández-Hernández, Ángel Adad Franco-Baltazar, José Marcos Zea-Pérez, Isabel Ernestina López-Navarro

    Pages 229-246

13. TRIZ Evolution Trends as an Approach for Predicting the Future Development of the Technological Systems in the Food Industry

    • Jesus-Manuel Barragan-Ferrer, Stéphane Negny, Jonas Damasius, Diana Barragan-Ferrer, Dalia Cizeikiene

    Pages 247-277

14. A Service Design Process Based on the Business Model CANVAS and the C-K Theory

    • Sergio E. Castillo-López, Sheyla K. Flores Guirao, Eduardo Roldán-Reyes, Aidé A. Maldonado Macias, Diego Manotas Duque

    Pages 279-301

15. Integration of Design Thinking and TRIZ Theory to Assist a User in the Formulation of an Innovation Project

    • Hugo Domingo García-Manilla, Jesús Delgado-Maciel, Diego Tlapa-Mendoza, Yolanda Angélica Báez-López, Leonardo Riverda-Cadavid

    Pages 303-327

This book presents the integration of new tools, the modification of existing tools, and the combination of different tools and approaches to create new technical resources for assisting the innovation process. It describes the efforts deployed for assisting the transformation of Product-Services Systems and explains the main key success factors or drivers for success of each tool or approach applied to solve an innovation problems.  The book presents a set of case studies to illustrate the application of several tools and approaches, mainly in developing countries.   

• Innovation management
• New product development
• Innovation problem-solving
• product design
• Computer aided innovation
• value analysis
• TRIZ
• developing countries
• Value Engineering
• Service Engineering
• Product-Service systems

• Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico / Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Mexico

  Guillermo Cortés-Robles

• Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

  Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz

• Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico / Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba , Orizaba, Mexico

  Giner Alor-Hernández

Cortes-Robles Guillermo has ten years of experiences in the Petroleum Industry. He is a research professor at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico in Orizaba and currently acts as the President of the Mexican TRIZ Association. His research interest include computer aided innovation and inventive design. 

Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Jorge Luis is a National Researcher level II from National Council for Science and Technology in Mexico. He has 14 years of experience in maquiladora industry andhas expertise in lean manufacturing methodologies and advanced manufacturing technologies. 

Alor-Hernandez Giner is involved in several Mexican research projects and his research interests include Web services, e-commerce, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, service-oriented and event-driven architectures and enterprise application integration. 

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