Creative Environment for Product Innovation

Project description: A vital effort for companies is to increase their innovative capabilities, e.g. the ability to intentionally create new ideas, processes or products. However, the task to increase innovation efforts is not straightforwardly done. Innovation as such includes different aspects of ‘novelty’ which are hard to structure and formalize. To find relevant and valid information, to do the appropriate analysis, to combine ideas are examples of what the innovation team have to manage, despite the fact that they cannot start from a complete and precise specification. A main effort for the team is to, not only develop a shared design vision, but also to specify the design problem.

A key question for this project is how creative environments can support innovation activities. More information: Creative Environments

Project leader: Åsa Ericson
Time period: 2010-2011