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Managing Innovation in Highly Restrictive Environments

Lessons from Latin America and Emerging Markets

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Editors:
  1. Guillermo Cortés-Robles

    1. Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico / Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba, Orizaba, Mexico

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  2. Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz

    1. Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

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  3. Giner Alor-Hernández

    1. Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico / Instituto Tecnologico de Orizaba , Orizaba, Mexico

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  • Describes innovation concepts and tools adapted to be deployed in restrictive environments
  • Suggests that restrictions are the source of evolution of the different tools and techniques for innovation problem-solving
  • Presents a set of case studies to illustrate the application of several tools and approaches in developing countries

Part of the book series: Management and Industrial Engineering (MINEN)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the editors

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. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing Innovation in Highly Restrictive Environments

  • Book Subtitle: Lessons from Latin America and Emerging Markets

  • Editors: Guillermo Cortés-Robles, Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Giner Alor-Hernández

  • Series Title: Management and Industrial Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93716-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93715-1Published: 16 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06709-0Published: 22 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93716-8Published: 05 July 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2365-0532

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-0540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 327

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Innovation/Technology Management, Engineering Design

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