In my consulting practice, innovation challenges that dogged teams having very good and experienced engineers for months or even years were resolved in a matter of days or hours. It was not magic; we ...

Analogy—the ability to find and apply deep structural patterns across domains—has been fundamental to human innovation in science and technology. Today there is a growing opportunity to accelerate ...

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To transfer knowledge to companies by training engineers is directly related to identifying opportunities of innovation. This paper introduces the knowledge system of four levels and an interactive ...

†Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, de Croylaan 46, 3001 Leuven, Belgium. Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads ...