Creating New Wealth by Improving the Fuzzy Front End of the Innovation Engine

完善创新引擎模糊前端创造新财富

• 批准号: 0322739
• 负责人: Peter Koen
• 金额: $ 29.51万
• 依托单位: Stevens Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0322739&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Creating; New; Wealth; Improving; Fuzzy

Abstract for NSF Grant 0322739 KoenCreating New Wealth by Improving the Fuzzy Front End of the Innovation EngineThe objective of this proposal is to discover, significantly improve and disseminate effective practices for the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) so as to increase the number of commercially successful major products that may be fed into the New Product Development (NPD) portion of the innovation engine in the Chemical, Food and Beverage, Medical Device and Petroleum segments. The value of this proposal is related to advancing knowledge in the FFE - which represents an under researched area. The broader impact is the enablement of new scientific and technological discoveries to be more quickly turned into products.The innovation process can be divided into three parts: 1. the FFE where product concepts are created 2. the NPD portion where the product is developed and 3. commercialization where the product is sold. Practices for the NPD portion have been extensively investigated. However, most companies have found that the, now efficient, NPD portion is being mostly fed with low profit and low risk incremental projects. A better understanding of the FFE will allow more high risk platform and radical projects to be introduced into the NPD.This goal will be achieved in seven sequential steps: 1. perform case studies in the targeted segments; 2. develop a validated survey with outcome measures with partner companies (i.e. Industrial Research Institute, Cabot Corporation, Ethicon, ExxonMobil, LORD Corporation and Rich Products); 3. survey the targeted segments; 4. determine the most effective practices by visiting companies in the top 20% and compare them to a matched pair in the 50% octal; 5. develop an assessment tool which companies can use to compare their practices against the top 20%; 6. apply the methodologies in an actual intervention using the assessment tool; and 7. develop traditional and web enabled course material to disseminate the knowledge.

NSF的摘要通过改善该提案创新的模糊前端来摘要Koencreation Koencreating新财富，该提议的目标是发现，显着改善并传播了模糊前端（FFE）的有效实践可以在化学，食品和饮料，医疗设备和石油段的创新引擎的新产品开发（NPD）部分中馈入新产品开发（NPD）的产品。该提案的价值与FFE中的知识有关，该知识代表了一个未经研究的领域。更广泛的影响是使新科学和技术发现更快地变成产品的促进。创新过程可以分为三个部分：1。创建产品概念的FFE 2。开发产品的NPD部分，并且3。出售产品的商业化。 NPD部分的实践已得到广泛的研究。但是，大多数公司发现，现在有效的NPD部分主要是为低利润和低风险增量项目提供。更好地了解FFE将允许将更多的高风险平台和激进项目引入NPD。该目标将在七个顺序的步骤中实现：1。在目标细分市场中进行案例研究； 2。通过合作伙伴公司（即工业研究所，Cabot Corporation，Ethicon，Exxonmobil，Lord Corporation和Rich Products）制定经过验证的调查； 3。调查目标细分市场； 4.通过将最有效的公司访问前20％的公司来确定最有效的做法，并将其与50％八分之一的匹配对相提并论； 5。开发一种评估工具，公司可以用来将其实践与前20％的前20％进行比较； 6.使用评估工具将方法应用于实际干预措施；和7。开发传统和Web的课程材料来传播知识。