Driven by a utilitarian perspective, the question of useful innovation and creating essential
values is set. Such innovation should lead to cover or alleviate significant pains which are …

Usefulness, from the utilitarianism perspective, is the ability of a product or service to
improve the well-being of humans and to minimize their suffering in different situations. In …

Companies make substantial R&D investments in early design stages to develop radically
innovative products. However, despite abundant research work in the field of human …

In this paper, the importance of problem setting in front end of innovation to radically
innovate is emphasized prior to the use of the BMC. After discussing the context of the …

Cities play an essential role in facilitating and supporting the real-world experimentations
(for instance in public spaces with real users) of innovative products and services in the field …

A lot of work is done on ideation metrics but less is done for innovation metrics, ie monitoring
an ideation process with the goal of augmenting idea maturity and increasing likelihood for …

This paper aims at investigating, through several examples of innovative startups, different
categories of Urban-Centered Innovative (UrCI) design solutions as well as the necessity to …

Although a large number of ecodesign tools is available to designers, adoption of these
tools still seems limited. This is in part due to an inadequacy between ecodesign tools and …

La méthodologie Radical Innovation Design (RID) est développée depuis 10 ans à
CentraleSupélec. C'est une approche intégrée d'innovation radicale «tirée» par les usages …