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Innovation

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

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Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

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Innovation Engine, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Innovation Engine, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper describes a meta-model for innovation using an automobile engine as a metaphor. This innovation meta-model is used to manage a collection of innovation models. We develop an algorithm to identify innovations with potential for success using this meta-model. This meta-model can be used by corporations and individuals to identify plausible innovations at any given point in time.


Innovation Stack - Choosing Innovations For Commercialization, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Innovation Stack - Choosing Innovations For Commercialization, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper describes a method for enterprises to order the innovations of interest according to a number of parameters including their own business strategy and core competencies. The method takes into account aspects such as ability to create entry barriers and complementary assets. Enterprises can now use this method to both filter out innovations that may not be of interest to them and then order the short listed or selected innovations according to their attractiveness.


Designing The Value Curve For Your Next Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu Jan 2011

Designing The Value Curve For Your Next Innovation, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU

This paper introduces an additional feature to the Strategy Canvas and Value Curve that will make innovation designers more effective. The new feature is to let the innovators carry out the designs of their new innovations taking into account both the cost of improving the quality of a parameter that the users value highly and the savings accrued from the drop in provisioning for parameters that users place less emphasis in an innovation.