%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Approach for a Pattern-Based Development of Frugal Innovations %A Anne-Christin Lehner %A Christian Koldewey %A Jürgen Gausemeier %K business model %K emerging markets %K frugal innovations %K patterns %K products and services %X Emerging markets have become increasingly interesting for companies from industrialized countries, but the requirements in these markets differ dramatically from those in the companies’ traditional markets. New products and services are demanded – so-called frugal innovations. Since the challenges for the development of frugal innovations are often quite similar – for example, low income of the target customer, poor infrastructure, etc. – the hypothesis appears that the solutions will also be similar. In our earlier TIM Review article (Lehner & Gausemeier, 2016), we showed how solution patterns for frugal innovations can be derived. The article at hand summarizes those findings and supplements an innovation process for frugal innovation using the solution patterns. The validation based on the example of telemedical assistant systems shows the benefit of the pattern-based development of frugal innovations. The article addresses managers and engineers who plan to introduce frugal innovations, as well as university-based researchers interested in the development of frugal innovations. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 14-27 %8 04/2018 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1149 %N 4 %1 Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA Anne-Christin Lehner (Dr.-Ing.) is employed by Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA in the field of Operations Strategy & Capacity Planning. She studied Industrial Engineering with a focus on Electrical Engineering at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and the University of Ottawa, Canada. Until 2016, Anne-Christin was a Research Associate of Professor Gausemeier at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn. Her main focus was on strategic planning and innovation management. %2 University of Paderborn Christian Koldewey (M.Sc.) is a Research Associate at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn, Germany. He works in the team strategic planning and innovation management within the working group strategic product planning and systems engineering at the chair of Professor Gausemeier. His research topics are digital service innovation, business and diversification strategy as well as business model generation. Previously, he studied Mechanical Engineering with a focus on manufacturing technology at the University of Paderborn and the Bielefeld University of Applied Science in Germany. %3 University of Paderborn Jürgen Gausemeier (Prof. Dr.-Ing.) is a Senior Professor at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn, Germany, and is Chairman of the Board of the Leading Edge Cluster “Intelligente Technische Systeme Ostwestfalen-Lippe (it’s OWL)”, which was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. He was speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 614 “Self-Optimizing Concepts and Structures in Mechanical Engineering” and member of the German Council of Science and Humanities from 2009 until 2015. Jürgen is Initiator and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the consulting company UNITY AG. Since 2003, he has been a member of “acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering” and, since 2012, has been its Vice President. In 2014, Jürgen received the Medal of Honor from the academic society “Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktentstehung (WiGeP)”. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1149 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T A Pattern-Based Approach to the Development of Frugal Innovations %A Anne-Christin Lehner %A Jürgen Gausemeier %K business model %K developing markets %K emerging markets %K frugal innovations %K market service %K pattern catalogue %K pattern system %K solution patterns %X The economic rise of emerging markets induces a rapid growth of the global middle class. This new mass market demands products and services adapted to the needs of the local population – so called "frugal innovations". Engineers often face similar challenges while developing products and services for these markets, and therefore may develop similar solutions. By the abstraction of these solutions to transferrable solution patterns, the efficiency of the development process could be increased. In this article, we introduce a systematic approach to develop a pattern system for frugal innovations. Based on 29 selected frugal innovations, we derived the problems that led to the development of the analyzed frugal innovations. By categorizing these problems, we deduced six problem categories: education, environment, culture, infrastructure, regulation, and finance. We stripped down the solutions to these problems to their core principles, and in our subsequent analysis, we identified 56 solution patterns. Moreover, we analyzed the relationships between the abstracted solution patterns, problem areas, and frugal innovations. By using a pattern-based approach, the efficiency of the product development process could be improved significantly. As well, patterns may generate new impetus and increase creativity. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 13-21 %8 03/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/971 %N 3 %1 University of Paderborn Anne-Christin Lehner (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) is a Research Associate at the Strategic Product Planning and Systems Engineering Workgroup at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute in Paderborn, Germany. She studied industrial engineering with a major in Electrical Engineering at the University of Paderborn and at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Her major research areas are strategic planning and innovation management. Some of her project topics were the development of business models for telemedical assistant systems and the development and implementation of segment strategies for a huge manufacturing company. She is currently writing her dissertation about the pattern-based development of frugal innovations. %2 University of Paderborn Jürgen Gausemeier is Senior Professor at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn, Germany. His key activities are strategic product planning and systems engineering. He was speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 614 "Self-Optimizing Concepts and Structures in Mechanical Engineering" by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and member of the German Council of Science and Humanities from 2009 until 2015. Jürgen Gausemeier is the initiator and chairman of the Supervisory Board of the consultant company UNITY AG. Since 2003, he has been member of “acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering” and has been its Vice President since 2012. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Leading-Edge Cluster "Intelligente Technische Systeme Ostwestfalen-Lippe (it's OWL)”, which was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/971