Innovation in manufacturing as an evolutionary complex system

Technovation

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1093-1105

  Rose Anderssen, Chris ^a   Allen, Peter M ^a   Tsinopoulos, Christos ^b   McCarthy, Ian ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Discontinuity; Evolution; New product development; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

GLOBAL MARKETS; INNOVATION; INNOVATIVE PROCESS; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT (QFD);

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 13644251767     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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