Today we welcome Prof. Dr. Frank Piller of the RWTH Aachen University. Dr. Piller is considered one of the leading German experts for innovation management, open innovation, customer co-creation and product individualization. His research has received numerous awards, like the PDMA Co-Creation Award or the nomination for the “Innovating Innovation” award from Harvard Business Review and McKinsey. He previously worked at the MIT Sloan School of Management before becoming a professor in Aachen where he is now the Head of Chair of the Institute for Technology & Innovation Management. Frank habilitated in 2004 on Open Innovation and User Innovation at the TUM Business School in Munich, where he headed the research group “Customer Driven Value Creation”. I got to know Frank and his work in more detail by going through the Micro Master Program at the RWTH on “Managing Technology and Innovation: How to deal with disruptive change” which I can only recommend. All this screams for having him on the podcast and not lastly because in that course he mentions his appreciation of the Jobs-to-be-done approach which is something of a household philosophy here at the Product Quest Podcast.
Here are the additional links that we talked about:
Lead User Method:
https://evhippel.mit.edu/teaching/
Lead user input and cocreation for innovation:
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/reducing-the-risks-of-new-product-development/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1975523
Paper on AI and innovation and the double diamond model:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpim.12656 (free download)
Self Driving Chemical Labs
https://www.matter.toronto.edu/basic-content-page/ai-for-discovery-and-self-driving-labs
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-022-00231-0
The Nature article with the material science experiment I described:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1335-8 (Summary: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01978-x)
edX: Free Innovation classes
https://www.edx.org/micromasters/rwthx-managing-technology-and-innovation-how-to-deal-with-disruptive-change
Executive Program on Using AI for Innovation (taught entirely in VR)
https://thegemba.com/course/leading-intelligent-engineering-vr
Innovation master program at RWTH:
https://www.business-school.rwth-aachen.de/en/programs/m-sc-management-engineering-in-technology-innovation-marketing-entrepreneurship/
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