Case Studies Used Throughout the Book: Innovation Categories Explained

Abstract

Three actual Health Innovations from the editors’ lab are presented and used in the subsequent chapters as case studies to illustrate some of the process steps of the presented innovation methodologies. They represent frugal, disruptive, radical, and traditional/incremental innovations. All are still active (April 2022) and public information as well as scientific references are available describing the innovation idea and initial results. All of them went through a process of exploring and defining the customer and their problem, ideating problem solutions, check and validate the solution, and develop initial minimal viable prototypes. The agile and iterative processes and methodologies for that (Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, Biodesign, I3-EME, Purpose Launchpad Health) are explained in subsequent chapters. The ultimate goal was and is to create dedicated start-ups that search—and hopefully succeed in finding—a sustainable and scalable business model.