We examine how teams working on radical innovation develop a novel type of absorptive capacity (AC) to make use of external knowledge. In the setting of the semiconductor industry we compare AC in incremental innovation and AC in radical innovation, relying on the most recent theory of design...

Cet article étudie les sources allemandes de la conception systématique à trois périodes charnières (1850, 1900 et 1950). Il montre que la conception systématique qui apparaît si intuitive et naturelle aujourd'hui résulte de décennies de travaux d'enseignants et d'industriels pour...

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between creativity issues and design theory. Although these two notions seemingly correspond to different academic fields (psychology, cognitive science and management for creativity; engineering science and logic for design theory), they appear to be...

Are creative designers doomed to loose in creativity when integrated in NPD processes? While a lot of studies point the necessity to achieve both creativity and feasibility, it remains hard to make more than a frustrating trade off. Still a new generation of design software have recently been...

Entretien avec Pascal Daloz, Directeur Général Adjoint de Dassault Systèmes en charge de la Stratégie et du Marketing

The challenge for innovation has shifted from meeting uncertainties to breaking through a waiting game. The topic of 'waiting games' - or technology impasses - has not been addressed in the innovation literature, while it is clearly important to understand the phenomenon, and to be able to do...

La gestion collective des plates-formes technologiques est l'un des enjeux des politiques publiques dans les sciences de la vie en France, qui leur assigne la double mission de contribuer à produire des connaissances nouvelles et de réaliser des transferts technologiques vers l'industrie....

Research has improved our understanding of the managerial challenges inherent in exploratory intermediation. For instance knowledge brokers help to solve well-defined problems based on existing competences. But what if the relevant actor networks are not known, if there is no clear common...

In this paper we analyse teaching at Bauhaus (1919-1933), through the courses of Itten and Klee. We show that these courses not only aimed at teaching the styles. They aimed at increasing students creative design capacities and at providing them techniques to create their own style, in the sense...

In this paper we propose to revisit two emblematic projects, Manhattan and Polaris, with the models developed by design theory. In particular we demonstrate, relying on recent advances in design theory, how these major projects, traditionally presented as radical innovations, are in fact quite...