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- Integrating business, social, and environmental goals in open innovation through partner selectionPublication . Santos, Ricardo; Soares, José; Marques, Pedro; Navas, Helena; Moleiro Martins, JoséAlthough collaborative networks (CN) are widespread in academia and have come to be even more used in corporations all over the world, they still face several challenges on behalf of the new product development (NPD) context, especially in regard to the selection of the CN’s right partner. This becomes even more evident when it comes to promoting sustainable development goals within a CN’s activities, by selecting the right partners with a wide consensus from a CN’s management board, avoiding, therefore, the subjectivity around managers’ perception of a CN’s partner selection. Therefore, this work attempts to answer this problem, by presenting a soft-computing-based framework, to support the managers’ board on partner search and selection. The method presented here is further assessed by using a case study, based on the development of a green product, where, according to the obtained results, it is demonstrated that the proposed approach is extremely effective for partner selection, by assessing and prioritizing each candidate involved. The most suitable candidate that fulfills the CN’s requirements is then selected to be integrated as a future partner.
- MAIDNP – Modelo Abrangente e Integrado para o DNPPublication . Dias, Ana; Abreu, António; Navas, HelenaO desenvolvimento de novos produtos (DNP) é crucial para a existência das empresas, fonte de vantagem competitiva e fator determinante do seu êxito empresarial. Diversos fatores tanto, operacionais como organizacionais ou até estratégicos, contribuem para o processo de inovação que suporta o DNP. A avaliação holística de todos estes fatores, no seu conjunto, não tem sido objeto de investigação conducente à proposta de um modelo integrado e sistémico. Desta forma, este artigo tem como objetivo a proposta de um modelo abrangente de natureza funcional, que integre os níveis estratégico, organizacional e processual, bem como o conjunto de fatores a ter em conta nos projetos de DNP. Com base na revisão de literatura, chega-se por via dedutiva-indutiva a um modelo conceptual abrangente e integrado. O modelo conceptual é validado de forma empírica, no meio industrial, através de quatro casos de estudo, explanatórios e explicativos referentes à implementação de novos produtos e serviços, tanto incrementais como disruptivos. Após a validação empírica considera-se que o modelo conceptual se transforma em funcional. Como resultado, o MAIDNP (Modelo Abrangente e Integrado para o Desenvolvimento de Novos Produtos) constitui-se também como uma ferramenta aferidora de processos, projetos e produtos, dedicado às empresas que inovam, concebem e desenvolvem novos produtos. The development of new products (NPD) is crucial for the existence of companies, source of competitive advantage and determinant of their business success. Several factors, both operational and organizational or even strategic, contribute to the innovation process that supports NPD. The holistic assessment of all these factors as a whole has not been the subject of research leading to the proposal for an integrated and systemic model. In this way, this paper aims to propose a MAIDNP – MODELO ABRANGENTE E INT EGRADO PARA O DNP 46 comprehensive functional model that integrates the strategic, organizational and procedural levels, as well as the set of factors to be taken into account in NPD projects. Based on the literature review, it is deductively-inductive to a comprehensive and integrated conceptual model. The conceptual model is empirically validated in the industrial environment through four explanatory case studies, concerning the implementation of new products and services, both incremental and disruptive. After empirical validation it is considered that the conceptual model becomes functional. As a result, MAIDNP (Integrated and Comprehensive Model for the Development of New Products) is also a process, project and product benchmarking tool dedicated to companies that innovate, design and develop new products.