Measurement of Innovation Front End–Foresight Approach (original) (raw)

The Front-Hub of Innovation: rethinking the front-end of the innovation process

There are new drivers concerning the study of innovation being intensively discussed in practice and literature. However, the front-end of innovation has not started to address these new drivers, maintaining its concepts static with regards to the innovation field. This paper discusses how the innovation forms introduced by business model innovations, design thinking and product-service systems affect the front-end of innovation. As a result of this investigation, a new approach for dealing with the early stages of innovation – The Front-Hub of Innovation (FHI) – is proposed to embrace new forms of innovation than the traditional product innovation and support the development of value oriented innovations. A vision of FHI is described through four dimensions: value creation, organisation, process and people.