The aim of this review is to provide insights to the usage of Kano-model and innovation product development, and at the same time, answer to the research question “How customer needs can be identified by using Kano-model for innovation product development?” The research is conducted by reviewing existing literature on Kano- model and innovation product development (IPD). The relevant literature used for this research is conducted by utilizing the databases of Halmstad University and Google Scholar. A model for customer needs identification by using Kano model for Innovation Product Development (IPD) was constructed based on the reviewed theories. In addition, a general recognition for the term of IPD was acknowledged.

The aim of the thesis was an analysis of factors influencing the competitiveness of selected industry in foreign markets. For this purpose, the aircraft manufacturing industry was chosen. Firstly I analysed current trends in the aircraft manufacturing, external factors influencing the industry and competitive forces of industry. Based on the lessons learned factors having the greatest influence on the international competitiveness of the aircraft manufacturing industry were identified. These factors were afterwards individually analyzed and the conclusion of this analysis was identifying of opportunities for increasing the competitiveness of the Czech aircraft manufacturing industry on foreign markets in various areas.

Diss. Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2005.

No Brasil, a difusão de conceitos da física nuclear na área médica ganhou destaque ao longo da última década com o uso do FDG-18F, substância análoga à glicose marcada radioativamente para atuar em procedimentos de diagnóstico e tratamento em oncologia, neurologia e cardiologia. Das três especialidades é no uso oncológico que estão suas aplicações de maior relevância como a detecção precoce de metástase e outras formas de monitoramento tumoral que resultam em maiores chances de sobrevida ao paciente. Estas possibilidades passaram a fazer parte da realidade nacional com a incorporação da tecnologia híbrida de PET-CT, equipamento gerador de imagens anatômicas e metabólicas para mapeamento preciso de lesões por meio da concentração de FDG-18F. O uso médico deste composto ganhou tamanha repercussão que a necessidade de expandir a oferta de FDG-18F para além dos bolsões geográficos contemplados pela produção pública culminou na aprovação de emenda constitucional que abriu o mercado de radiofármacos no país. O presente estudo aborda a formação da cadeia produtiva de radiofármacos irradiados em cíclotron a partir da quebra do monopólio de produção e comercialização de radioisótopos de meia-vida curta, em 2006, para demonstrar que, ao consolidar a cadeia produtiva de FDG-18F, instituições e atores sociais nela envolvidos constituíram um subsistema nacional de inovação em saúde / In Brazil, nuclear physics concepts become prominent in healthcare throughout the last decade with FDG-18F use, a glucose similar substance radioactively marked to be used in diagnosis and treatment procedures in oncology, neurology and cardiology, but it´s in oncology treatments that we can find the biggest relevance application with the early cancer metastasis detection and many other cancerous tumor monitoring forms that may be revert in patient life time gain. PET-CT hybrid technology incorporation made these possibilities become part of national reality. The equipment is able to produce integrated anatomical and metabolic images that shows tiny tissue damages tracking FDG-18F concentration. This medical composition become renowned enough to claim loud for geographic offer expansion until it raised a new law allowing private initiative taking part in radiopharmaceuticals production market. This research intent to describe the cyclotron radiopharmaceuticals irradiated supply chain building up process since productive and commercial public monopoly broke up in 2006, so then it will be able to prove that a new innovative healthcare subsystem has resulted by the social actors and institutions efforts to establish FDG-18F supply chain

No Brasil, a difusão de conceitos da física nuclear na área médica ganhou destaque ao longo da última década com o uso do FDG-18F, substância análoga à glicose marcada radioativamente para atuar em procedimentos de diagnóstico e tratamento em oncologia, neurologia e cardiologia. Das três especialidades é no uso oncológico que estão suas aplicações de maior relevância como a detecção precoce de metástase e outras formas de monitoramento tumoral que resultam em maiores chances de sobrevida ao paciente. Estas possibilidades passaram a fazer parte da realidade nacional com a incorporação da tecnologia híbrida de PET-CT, equipamento gerador de imagens anatômicas e metabólicas para mapeamento preciso de lesões por meio da concentração de FDG-18F. O uso médico deste composto ganhou tamanha repercussão que a necessidade de expandir a oferta de FDG-18F para além dos bolsões geográficos contemplados pela produção pública culminou na aprovação de emenda constitucional que abriu o mercado de radiofármacos no país. O presente estudo aborda a formação da cadeia produtiva de radiofármacos irradiados em cíclotron a partir da quebra do monopólio de produção e comercialização de radioisótopos de meia-vida curta, em 2006, para demonstrar que, ao consolidar a cadeia produtiva de FDG-18F, instituições e atores sociais nela envolvidos constituíram um subsistema nacional de inovação em saúde / In Brazil, nuclear physics concepts become prominent in healthcare throughout the last decade with FDG-18F use, a glucose similar substance radioactively marked to be used in diagnosis and treatment procedures in oncology, neurology and cardiology, but it´s in oncology treatments that we can find the biggest relevance application with the early cancer metastasis detection and many other cancerous tumor monitoring forms that may be revert in patient life time gain. PET-CT hybrid technology incorporation made these possibilities become part of national reality. The equipment is able to produce integrated anatomical and metabolic images that shows tiny tissue damages tracking FDG-18F concentration. This medical composition become renowned enough to claim loud for geographic offer expansion until it raised a new law allowing private initiative taking part in radiopharmaceuticals production market. This research intent to describe the cyclotron radiopharmaceuticals irradiated supply chain building up process since productive and commercial public monopoly broke up in 2006, so then it will be able to prove that a new innovative healthcare subsystem has resulted by the social actors and institutions efforts to establish FDG-18F supply chain

Analysis of conditions for small and medium-sized enterprises development in the region of South Bohemia focused on innovative aktivities and possibility of their cooperation.

Our world today is facing unprecedented challenges in relation to creating a sustainable way of life. Urban areas have a significant potential to positively contribute to addressing these pressing challenges in sustainable development. The public sector plays a central role in ensuring a sustainable development of its municipality.This thesis presents a case study conducted on the example of Helsingborg municipality in Sweden, which is renowned for its approach to sustainable development as well as innovation.The authors have attempted understanding, why and how this Swedish municipality is so effective in its sustainable development by analyzing its use of the Concept Innovation of Quality of Life as a central component in its strategy.The Diffusion of Innovation Theory is used to analyze the adoption and potential of the Quality of Life Concept Innovation. Previous research is summarized and the findings from semi-structured interviews are presented and synthesized to develop a model that explains the diffusion and outcome of the Concept Innovation of Quality of Life. An interview guide for further use is also presented.

Innovation inom försvarsindustrin har under flera år varit utsatt för förändringar på grund av olika trender. Detta har påverkat aktörerna inom marknaden. De mest inflytelserika faktorerna har varit, komplexare kunskapsbaser, ökat inflytande av privata företag och utökad konkurrens. Detta resulterar i att aktörer inom försvarssektorn arbetar under begränsningar. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur dessa begränsningar kan hanteras genom att applicera en alternativ arbetsmetod. Därför introduceras och undersöks det hur Lean teorier kan appliceras för att motverka dessa påverkningsfaktorer och trender. Detta har sedan smalnats av till en Lean teori vilken är anpassad till utvecklingsarbete, Lean startup. Syftet är då formulerat till: Föreslå och undersök möjligheterna att applicera Lean som ett innovationsverktyg i utvecklingsarbeten inom försvarsindustrin. Studien kommer att använda sig av en fallstudiedesign och samla in data med intervjuer. Respondenterna är tagna från två aktörer inom den svenska försvarssektorn. Datainsamlingen gjorde det möjligt att kartlägga och skapa en överblick av arbetsprocessen. Respondenterna gavs också möjligheten att utrycka sina åsikter kring arbetsprocessen för att möjliggöra förbättringsförslag. Resultaten sammanställdes till gap där Lean teorier kunde appliceras och förhoppningsvis förbättra arbetsprocessen. Undersökningen kan påvisa att Lean teori kan användas inom utvecklingsprojekt inom försvarsindustrin. Dessutom kunde fördelarna med att applicera Lean teori hittas. Studien kommer fram till tre områden av kunskapsanskaffning i relation till syftet. Lean kan implementeras även om alla teoretiska krav inte är uppfyllda. Samarbete kan enligt Lean leda till flera fördelar. Lean kan skapa en brygga mellan två organisationer som har olika incitament / Innovation in the defense sector has during several years been under scrutiny and has undergone changes due to trends that have affected several stakeholders within the defense market. The most impactful elements are, more complex knowledge bases, increased role of private companies, and larger scope of competition. In return, these elements create constrictions in terms of limited resources that companies and agencies within the defense industry are affected by. The purpose of this study is to suggest an alternative approach to handle the limited resources and constrictions. The report introduces and investigate how Lean theory can be implemented and used to counter act these trends. Furthermore, it will utilize a Lean theory which specializes in innovation and development projects, Lean startup. The purpose is formulated to suggest and investigate the possibilities of applying Lean as an innovation tool in development projects for the defense industry. Moreover, the study will utilize a case study research design and collect data with interviews, where the respondents are from two of the stakeholders within the Swedish defense industry market. The data collection provided an opportunity to map and create an overview over the current work procedures. The respondents were also given the possibility to express opinions on the work procedures to create improvement possibilities. The findings of the report were concluded into gaps where the Lean theory could be applied and suggest a potential improvement of the current work procedures. The report finds that Lean theory provides tools that can be implemented to development context in the defense industry. It also finds that there are advantages to gain by implementing Lean. The report concludes that knowledge gain can be found in relation to the purpose. Lean can be implemented even though not all theoretical requirements are fulfilled. Collaboration will provide advantages in various areas from a Lean perspective. Lean can be used to bridge organizations with different incentives.

Submitted by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2017-11-21T12:08:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2017-11-21T12:08:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2017-11-21T12:18:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-22T12:57:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-28 / This research sought to understand how the product development process occurs with the disaggregation of geographic and proprietary scope. Comparisons were made between different theoretical references on the process of global innovation, open innovation and the relationship between them, to be applied in the three selected premium companies belonging to the Fashion Industry of Brazil, located in the city of São Paulo. For this, fifteen employees were interviewed, whose functions involve the development of collections of these companies. The research objectives were to propose a framework disaggregating the steps in the geographic and proprietary scopes; Identify the innovation process that can be adopted in multinational strategies; And which are the proprietary and geographic scopes of the process steps. The methodological approach is the qualitative one, the method is the one of case study and the technique of treatment of data was the analysis of content. It was found that the process occurs in a disaggregated way between its stages, there is independence of performance in the geographic and proprietary scopes, but, at different intensity, open innovation was more found than global innovation. And, the practice of open innovation does not influence the use of global innovation. / Esta pesquisa buscou entender como ocorre o processo de desenvolvimento de produto com a desagregação do escopo geográfico e proprietário. Foram feitas comparações entre diferentes referenciais teóricos sobre o Processo de Inovação global, inovação aberta e a relação entre eles, para que fossem aplicados nas três empresas premium selecionadas, pertencentes à Indústria Têxtil e Confecção do Brasil, localizadas na cidade de São Paulo. Para isso, foram entrevistados quinze funcionários, cuja as funções envolvem o desenvolvimento de coleções destas empresas. Os objetivos de pesquisa foram propor um framework desagregando as etapas nos escopos geográfico e proprietário; identificar o Processo de Inovação que pode ser adotado em estratégias multinacionais; e quais os escopos proprietário e geográfico das etapas do processo. A abordagem metodológica é a qualitativa, o método é o de estudo de caso e a técnica de tratamento de dados foi a análise de conteúdo. Constatou-se que o processo ocorre de forma desagregada entre suas etapas, existe independência de atuação nos escopos geográfico e proprietário, porém, em intensidade diferente, a inovação aberta foi mais encontrada que a inovação global. E, a prática da inovação aberta não influi no uso da inovação global.

La tesi seguirà il processo di sviluppo in occasione della riforma 2013 della PAC. Senza tentare di fare un'analisi approfondita sui successi e gli insuccessi del quadro politico precedente, si concentrerà più sui le opinioni delle parti interessate sulle sfide della politica stava affrontando alla data e le possibili soluzioni proposte dalle parti interessate a prendere il la politica in avanti. Una visione a 360 ° delle posizioni assunte dalle parti interessate rivelerà loro valutazione dell'efficacia della politica, l'efficacia degli strumenti esistenti per affrontare le nuove sfide, nonché identificherà le nuove direzioni che essi propongono per lo sviluppo delle politiche per affrontare le sfide future. Tale analisi consentirà l'identificazione del luogo e l'importanza data dalla parti interessate per la promozione dell'innovazione e della sostenibilità nel settore agricolo attraverso gli strumenti della PAC. La tesi si propone di cogliere il ruolo delle diverse opinioni delle parti interessate nello sviluppo della politica e quindi di fare un'analisi delle sfide e delle opportunità parti interessate devono affrontare nel contesto della implementatione delle politiche agricole. / The thesis will follow the policy development process during the 2013 reform of the CAP. Without attempting to make an in-depth expert analysis on the successes and failures of the previous policy framework, it will focus more on reflecting the opinions of the stakeholders on the challenges the policy was facing at date and possible solutions proposed by stakeholders to take the policy forward. A 360° vision on the positions taken by stakeholders will reveal their assessment of the effectiveness of the policy, the efficacy of existing instruments to address new challenges as well as will identify the new directions they propose for policy development to meet future challenges. Such an analysis will allow identifying the place and importance given by stakeholders to the promoting innovation and sustainability in the agricultural sector through the instruments of the CAP. The thesis aims at capturing the role of the various stakeholder opinions in the development of the policy and then to make an analysis of the challenges and opportunities stakeholders face in the context of the new policy implementation.