This work outlines an Innovation Gap in technology commercialization
and presents a novel tool, the Advanced Technology Innovation Mapping (ATIM) tool to
address this gap. The tool aims to support technology commercialization in early stages
of & prior to the New Product Development Process. The dissertation includes a detailed
rationale, description, history, similar and originating methods for this tool based on
Value Engineering and Function Maps for Design. This work also demonstrates on
several example studies the use of the tool and evaluates via an exploratory study the
usefulness of the tool. Research tests the tool in educational and training programs at the
University of Texas at Austin and finds that the tool improves user understating of
majority of important factors for technology commercialization (customer, technology,
development activities). User feedback supports these conclusions. In the future the tool
could be further expanded, more standardized and improved. Additionally, the work
proposes further ways to study the tool in different settings and with groups of different
sizes beyond this early exploratory study. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/23245 |
| Date | 18 February 2014 |
| Creators | Felkl, Jakub, 1982- |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | application/pdf |
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