With the rapid advancement of cyber-physical systems, Digital Twin (DT) is gaining ever-
increasing attention owing to its great capabilities to realize Industry 4.0. Enterprises from …

The resilience of organizations is increasingly dependent on their ability to develop radical
innovation capabilities. While the literature documents numerous cases of organizations that …

Highlights•Interview study with expert designers.•Design fixation is a real problem in
professional practice.•Designers are aware of fixation and take steps to address it.•Fixation …

In order to meet user expectations and to optimize user experience with a higher degree of
flexibility and sustainability, the Smart product–service system (Smart PSS), as a novel value …

The Special Issue “4D Printing: State-of-the-art, Recent Trends, and Applications” highlights
the significant impact of scientific advancements on practical and innovative applications. It …

We propose a large, scalable engineering knowledge graph, comprising sets of real-world
engineering “facts” as< entity, relationship, entity> triples that are found in the patent …

Purpose Innovation intermediaries have become key actors in open innovation (OI) contexts.
Research has improved the understanding of the managerial challenges inherent to …

There are obstacles to creativity: one of them is called fixation effect, the fact that some
knowledge about existing or obvious solutions is spontaneously activated and constrains …

In recent years, the works on design theory (and particularly the works of the design theory
SIG of the design society) have contributed to reconstruct the science of design, comparable …

Addressing the issues that agriculture is currently facing requires disruptive innovations,
which may be stimulated through a process of innovative design, enhancing exploration in …