Managing Innovation in Highly Restrictive Environments

Against the odds. Innovation in Latin-American SMEs.- Use of Lean-Sigma as a problem-solving method in a restrictive environment.- Creation of Technology-Based Companies: Challenges to Innovate in the Manufacturing Sector of Medical Devices, the Case of Baja California, México.- Applying Action-research to academic patent-licensing path.- Mass customization process in companies from the housing sector in Brazil.- A Talent Management Model for Innovation and Competitiveness in Complex Domains: a study case in the Latin American energy sector.-  The Role of ICT in Educational Innovation.- A Series of Recommendations for Industrial Design Conceptualizing Based on Emotional Design.- Indexing and Mapping Examples of Heuristics Compiled from TRIZ.- The use of affective computing in the conceptual design stage of new products.-  Taking Advantage of the Innovation in Die Service Design.- TRIZ evolution trends as an approach for predicting the future development of the technological systems in the food industry.- A Service Design Process based on the Business Model Canvas and the C-K Theory.- Integration of Design Thinking and TRIZ theory to assist a user in the formulation of an innovation project.