Fail early, fail often: exploring stanford's ME310 course as a basis to improve innovation outpost efficacy
Paper in proceeding, 2018

In this case study, we compare knowledge transfer between innovation teams in two contexts: an industry-sponsored graduate student capstone course to their corporate sponsors, and innovation outposts (IOs) to their parent companies. Through interviews with different stakeholders, we identified best practices for and challenges to innovation transfer, with personal relationships and tangible communication of ideas through prototypes being key to success. We call for more longitudinal studies to explore both the soft and hard benefits of innovation outposts.

innovation outpost

knowledge transfer

design education

knowledge management

innovation

Author

Daniel Stenholm

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

Dylan Moore

Stanford University

Larry Leifer

Stanford University

Dag Henrik Bergsjö

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Product Development

DS92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

1847-9073 (ISSN)

Vol. 5 2505-2516

15th International Design Conference
Dubrovnik, Croatia,

Subject Categories

Educational Sciences

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Business Administration

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.21278/idc.2018.0503

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