TY - JOUR T1 - A Pattern-Based Approach to the Development of Frugal Innovations JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Anne-Christin Lehner A1 - Jürgen Gausemeier KW - business model KW - developing markets KW - emerging markets KW - frugal innovations KW - market service KW - pattern catalogue KW - pattern system KW - solution patterns AB - The economic rise of emerging markets induces a rapid growth of the global middle class. This new mass market demands products and services adapted to the needs of the local population – so called "frugal innovations". Engineers often face similar challenges while developing products and services for these markets, and therefore may develop similar solutions. By the abstraction of these solutions to transferrable solution patterns, the efficiency of the development process could be increased. In this article, we introduce a systematic approach to develop a pattern system for frugal innovations. Based on 29 selected frugal innovations, we derived the problems that led to the development of the analyzed frugal innovations. By categorizing these problems, we deduced six problem categories: education, environment, culture, infrastructure, regulation, and finance. We stripped down the solutions to these problems to their core principles, and in our subsequent analysis, we identified 56 solution patterns. Moreover, we analyzed the relationships between the abstracted solution patterns, problem areas, and frugal innovations. By using a pattern-based approach, the efficiency of the product development process could be improved significantly. As well, patterns may generate new impetus and increase creativity. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/971 IS - 3 U1 - University of Paderborn Anne-Christin Lehner (Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing.) is a Research Associate at the Strategic Product Planning and Systems Engineering Workgroup at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute in Paderborn, Germany. She studied industrial engineering with a major in Electrical Engineering at the University of Paderborn and at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Her major research areas are strategic planning and innovation management. Some of her project topics were the development of business models for telemedical assistant systems and the development and implementation of segment strategies for a huge manufacturing company. She is currently writing her dissertation about the pattern-based development of frugal innovations. U2 - University of Paderborn Jürgen Gausemeier is Senior Professor at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn, Germany. His key activities are strategic product planning and systems engineering. He was speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 614 "Self-Optimizing Concepts and Structures in Mechanical Engineering" by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and member of the German Council of Science and Humanities from 2009 until 2015. Jürgen Gausemeier is the initiator and chairman of the Supervisory Board of the consultant company UNITY AG. Since 2003, he has been member of “acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering” and has been its Vice President since 2012. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Leading-Edge Cluster "Intelligente Technische Systeme Ostwestfalen-Lippe (it's OWL)”, which was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. ER -