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The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic-Practitioner Divide

The lean startup framework is one of the most popular contributions in the practitioner-oriented entrepreneurship literature. This study seeks to generate new insights into how new ventures are started by describing the five main building blocks of the lea ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

The shaping effects of innovation and technology: from micro business model evolution to macro environment sustainability

Qinli Lu

Innovation is a prerequisite guarantee for the development of a country in this new era. It is an important driver not just for corporate growth but also for national social and economic transformation. Considering the strategic supporting role of innovati ...

EPFL2020

Problem structuring to enable innovation in business/IT projects

Alain Wegmann, Gil Regev, Tatiana Porté

In this paper, we present a problem structuring method in business and IT analysis illustrated with an example. The project describes an IT consulting case done for a Swiss medical society faced with a problem of change management and digital transformatio ...

LUT Scientific and Expertise Publications2020

Linking business model innovation with energy system optimization

Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

There are dedicated computational models and platforms to facilitate the design and planning of multi-energy-systems. However, the widespread adoption of new technological solutions largely depends on the right business models. Whilst there exists a list o ...

IOP Science2019

Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms

Camille Marguerite Aouinait

Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...

EPFL2019

The sustainable business model pattern taxonomy-45 patterns to support sustainability-oriented business model innovation

Lorenzo Massa

The literature on sustainable business models (SBMs) offers different classifications of the available kinds of SBM. Our careful reading of this literature reveals that the received classifications have developed adhoc from multiple divergent perspectives. ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Understanding the Social Implications of the Digital Transformation: Insights from Four Case Studies on the Role of Social Innovation to Foster Resilience of Society, Electronic Participation

Gianluca Carlo Misuraca, Gianluigi Viscusi

This paper advances further the analysis of previous exploratory research conducted by the authors on how social innovation can foster resilience in a digital governance context. The process of innovation in social policy, as well as the building of resili ...

Springer2018

A critical assessment of business model research

Christopher Tucci, Allan Afuah, Lorenzo Massa

Ever since the Internet boom of the mid-1990s, firms have been experimenting with new ways of doing business and achieving their goals, which has led to a branching of the scholarly literature on business models. Three interpretations of the meaning and fu ...

Acad Management2017

Energy management in manufacturing: From literature review to a conceptual framework

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May

The literature on energy management in manufacturing is rapidly growing. Since the literature is also quite fragmented, we believe that the time has come to delve into current knowledge in the research field to provide directions for policy makers and guid ...

Elsevier2017

Fluid Dynamics and Outliers : Outstanding Performance of High-Tech Companies in Microfluidic Technologies

Bernard André Vincent Calisti

The current craze for unicorns and other hyper growth companies brings a novel interest in what makes the exceptional performance of a firm. Literature about technological innovation explains the bond between the performance level reached by a company and ...

EPFL2017

Einsatz von Nichtmarktstrategien durch oeffentliche Unternehmen gegenueber dem Staat : Untersuchung am Beispiel der Schweizerischen Post AG

Carole Juliane Isabelle Rentsch

Public enterprises operate in the area between the opposing poles of state and market. On the one hand they must meet a wide range of political expectations, and on the other they must fulfil commercial efficiency criteria. This dissertation addresses how ...

EPFL2017

Digital transformation, business models and the postal industry

Nandkumar Harshan Kollara

For many decades, the postal industry offered postal services and in parallel, had a monopoly over the national postal markets. Recently, the postal industry endured a phase where their national postal markets were subjected to liberalisation by the respec ...

EPFL2017

The Beacon: A New Framework for Business Model Reconfiguration for Complex Enterprises

Deep Ramnik Parekh

During the last twenty years we have witnessed the steady rise in academic research and practitioner interest and inquiry on the topic of business models. The topic is still in its infancy, and thus a lot of literature hitherto has focused on the basics: d ...

EPFL2016

Linking Models and Experiments

Dominique Bonvin, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues, René Uwe Schneider

This position paper gives an overview of the discussion that took place at FIPSE 2 at Aldemar Resort, east of Heraklion, Crete, in June 21-23, 2014. This is the second conference in the series "Future Innovation in Process Systems Engineering" (http://fi-i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Digital business innovation: roadmaps and attitudes from a FutureEnterprise perspective

Gianluigi Viscusi

The paper investigates the potential axes and dimensions of roadmaps for digital business innovation for entrepreneurs as well as enterprises. Actually, digital business innovation requires a change of perspective with regard to IT governance and managemen ...

2015

Human-centered Innovation Processes : The Case of Design Thinking in Nascent and Large Firms

Alan Cabello Llamas

For more than a decade managers, academics, educators and politicians have indicated that innovation is the key to our future. As a result, we find a plethora of innovation initiatives around the world, from university curricula to the mission statements o ...

EPFL2015

Value Map - An Innovative Tool for Business Model Innovation

Alain Wegmann, Arash Golnam, Aarthi Gopal

In this paper, we present a modeling framework called “Value Map”. Value Map assists in conceptualization, representation and analysis of value creation and capture processes with the objective of innovating a firm’s business model. We illustrate the appli ...

ISPIM2014

A vision and strategy for the virtual physiological human: 2012 update

Alfio Quarteroni

European funding under Framework 7 (FP7) for the virtual physiological human (VPH) project has been in place now for 5 years. The VPH Network of Excellence (NoE) has been set up to help develop common standards, open source software, freely accessible data ...

Royal Soc2013

Patent-free Innovation: a review of economic works including the analysis of a recent work in the field of experimental economics

Dominique Foray

This article is inspired by the observation of a massive change of opinion on the part of economists regarding the question of the patent as a mechanism allowing an economically acceptable solution to be found to the so-called “imperfect appropriability” p ...

2013

Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation

Jana Thiel

Starting a new venture is arguably an exciting journey into previously unknown territories. Since entrepreneurs, through their economic activities, are central to social prosperity, academic research has a strong interest to understand who those entreprene ...

EPFL2012