Managing Innovation in Highly Restrictive Environments

Cortes-Robles Guillermo has ten years of experiences in the Petroleum Industry. He is a research professor at the Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico in Orizaba and currently acts as the President of the Mexican TRIZ Association. His research interest include computer aided innovation and inventive design. Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz, Jorge Luis is a National Researcher level II from National Council for Science and Technology in Mexico. He has 14 years of experience in maquiladora industry andhas expertise in lean manufacturing methodologies and advanced manufacturing technologies. Alor-Hernandez Giner is involved in several Mexican research projects and his research interests include Web services, e-commerce, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, service-oriented and event-driven architectures and enterprise application integration.

• Against the odds. Innovation in Latin-American SMEs.- Use of Lean-Sigma as a problem-solving method in a restrictive environment.- Creation of Technology-Based Companies: Challenges to Innovate in the Manufacturing Sector of Medical Devices, the Case of Baja California, México.- Applying Action-research to academic patent-licensing path.- Mass customization process in companies from the housing sector in Brazil.- A Talent Management Model for Innovation and Competitiveness in Complex Domains: a study case in the Latin American energy sector.-  The Role of ICT in Educational Innovation.- A Series of Recommendations for Industrial Design Conceptualizing Based on Emotional Design.- Indexing and Mapping Examples of Heuristics Compiled from TRIZ.- The use of affective computing in the conceptual design stage of new products.-  Taking Advantage of the Innovation in Die Service Design.- TRIZ evolution trends as an approach for predicting the future development of the technological systems in the food industry.- A Service Design Process based on the Business Model Canvas and the C-K Theory.- Integration of Design Thinking and TRIZ theory to assist a user in the formulation of an innovation project.