Innovation Nation is a specialized partner that invests in the European businesses with a focus in; Materials and Specialty Industrials businesses. Specializes in these businesses due to their attractive global trends, technology and innovation, and opportunities to create value-driven solutions. Innovation Nation philosophy is to partner with the teams, provide them with methodologies, resources, develop open and constructive relationships. Makes wise use of the unique blend of technical and business acumen and committed to make the big-picture vision reality.
Innovation Nation is creating and developing of innovation investments & partnerships, provides on-demand consultancy to accelerate businesses. From ideation, at pre-seed to seed stage, enable startups & scaleups and SMEs to grow, acting as partner and/or as consultant.
Innovation Nation accelerate businesses that impact the global trends and challenges, specialized in materials and specialty industrials, our focus is:
Innovation Nation resources can assist businesses in Management of Technological Innovation and applies the Lean Startup movement methodologies;
Xandra holds a MBA degree, BSc degree in chemical engineering and MSc degree in chemical engineering.
Article revisited, because the article is still interesting and for further use… my next inspiration Source: Geoff Tuff and Bansi Nagji, May 2012, Managing Your Innovation Portfolio, Harvard Business Review. The global competitive pressures and Read more…
Just give it a thought, how to create and maintain a global innovation project portfolio. The following could be a start on creating a strategic framework. Value maximization of the Innovation portfolio: Define assessment process Read more…
Fantastic book “Understanding How the Future Unfolds: Using Drive to Harness the Power of Today’s Megatrends” to read on the DRIVE framework (Demographic and social changes, Resource scarcity, Inequalities, Volatility, scale and complexity, Enterprising dynamics), Read more…
There is a range of organizational options for NPD projects. Firms must choose the appropriate mix of projects for their future product portfolio, which is indicated by the percentage of a firm’s development resources allocated Read more…
As mentioned, the different diffusion paths of innovation have an effect on diffusion speed of innovation. The type of innovation determines the diffusion path (incremental or radical). NPD processes could be adapted accordingly to improve Read more…
The diffusion of innovation follows a typical S-curve, with a small group of innovating customers (innovators) leading the way, followed by early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. As with acceptance of incremental innovation Read more…
When the entry point of technology is new, enhanced or existing, the technology acceptance by the customer will be different. The revised Technology Adoption Life Cycle is a model for understanding the acceptance of new Read more…
Some innovations are more suitable for traditional NPD processes, others are appropriate for start-up innovation processes; which process is a best fit for a certain innovation is strongly related to the technology and market entry Read more…
Running Lean Methodology (RLM) is a set of three steps that guide a company through the process of capturing a business idea, testing it with potential customers, adapting it to customer needs, building a prototype Read more…
The Customer Development Model (CDM), divides customer-related activities carried out in the early stage of a company into four easy- to-understand steps: Customer Discovery, Customer Validation, Customer Creation, and Company Building. These steps support ongoing Read more…
Lean product development ways of working have entered the traditional Stage-Gate process, which offers good principles and methods for removing waste in the innovation process. The concept of spiral loops or agile development is built Read more…
Companies use traditional new product development (NPD) processes, such as the Stage-Gate process. The Stage-Gate (full) process is a conceptual and operational map for moving new product projects from idea to launch and beyond for Read more…
I developed a framework that combines several new product development (NPD) methodologies. The aim of this framework is to give direction in which methodology and which team structure you need, to successfully develop a new Read more…