Learning outcomes 3:

Discuss the process required to commercialise innovation 

Commercialisation of innovation: 

  • Adopting the New Product Development (NPD) and commercialisation funnel to drive new products to market; building the Innovation Business Case, in market testing and iteration routes to market and market launch. 

Planning innovation: 

  • The impact of advanced technology and information management on research, testing and developments methods. (Power-point - Lecture 5)

Accessing funding and resources:   (Power-point - Lecture 6)

  • The reasons why an organisation would want to access funding (e.g. product development, marketing) and the different types of funding sources available. 
  • Consideration of resources a small business may require to commercialise their offering (e.g. office space, etc.) 


LO3: Discuss the process required to commercialise innovation

P5: Explain the importance of the commercial funnel and the application of New Product Development (NPD) processing for commercialisation of innovation.

P6: Build an Innovation Business Case for an organisation, including ways to access funding.

M4: Build a detailed Innovation Business Case which includes how to measure its overall effectiveness using appropriate techniques available to test, iterate and improve.

LO3 and LO4:  D2: Critically evaluate the nature of innovation and the context in which it is developed, providing evidence based judgements on how organisations can overcome challenges to develop successful innovation.

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