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Competition, Innovation, and Product Exit
(2001-03-19)
Why do products exit markets? This paper integrates rationale for product exit from a number of different literatures and compares the statistical and substantive effect of these explanations. We use a novel dataset ...
Patent Litigation As a Leading Market Indicator
(2001)
The purpose of this paper is to introduce patent litigation as a leading indicator of market
growth. We model the intensity of patent litigation and the market growth for the
personal computer and cellular phone market ...
Towards a Theory of Complicatedness: Framework for Complex Systems Analysis and Design
(2001-08)
Global, dynamic, and competitive business environment has increased the complexity in
product, service, operational processes and human side. Much engineering effort goes into
reducing systems complexity. We argue that ...
Product Concept Metrics: a Preliminary Study Working Paper
(2001-07)
Metrics for product concept evaluation and screening is a relatively unstudied topic of product development.
Having a clearly documented set of metrics for concept screening decisions is a prerequisite for an educated and ...
Product Development Process Modeling Using Advanced Simulation
(2001-09)
This paper presents a product development process
modeling and analysis technique using advanced simulation.The model computes the probability distribution of lead time in a resource-constrained project network where ...
Modularization to Support Multiple Brand Platforms
(2001-09-09)
Methods to determine acceptable architecture for multiple platforms supporting multiple brands must represent both platform cost saving commonization as well as revenue enhancing brand distinctions. Functional architecting ...
Metrics Thermostat
(2001-07)
The explosion of information and information technology has led many firms to evolve a dispersed product development process with people and organizations spread throughout the world. To coordinate such dispersed processes ...
Patterns of Product Development Interactions
(2001-08-21)
Development of complex products and large systems is a highly interactive social process
involving hundreds of people designing thousands of interrelated components and making
millions of coupled decisions. Nevertheless, ...
Putting Patents in Context:Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT
(2001-08-09)
In this paper we explore the degree to which patents are representative of the magnitude,
direction, and impact of the knowledge spilling out of the university by focusing on MIT, and in particular on the departments of ...
Integrated Simulation and Design Synthesis
(2001)
The potential benefits of mathematically predicting and analyzing the integrated behavior
of product concepts throughout the design synthesis cycle are widely recognized. Better
up-front integrated design will not only ...