THEORIES
The Italian Center of Competence promotes tools and techniques able to give methodological support to activities related to new product development and more in general related to technological innovation processes, according to a systematic and structured approach.
Among promoted tools and techniques, the following are the main ones:
TRIZ Theory
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving;
Techniques to forecast technology evolution
to support decisions taking in Research and Development;
Bio-inspired Design
to formulate technical ideas taking inspiration from natural solution strategies;
Co-creativity
that is a collaborative approach among different stakeholders in the design and development of new products and services, according to a more proficient way of generating new concepts.
Patent Information
collecting legal, business and technical information;
Value innovation
as an analytical approach to the analysis of the perceived value of products, processes and services by users;
Open Innovation
In general, the proposed methods have in common the scientific approach to the analysis and resolution of the problems (or tasks) to be addressed, that is according to a codified, repeatable and reasoned path.