Collaborative networks (CNs) leverage the improving sociability and usability features of
information technology to enable and enhance partnering that delivers competitive …

Patent data have long been used for engineering design research because of its large and
expanding size and widely varying massive amount of design information contained in …

The internet is empowering the rise of crowd work, gig work, and other forms of on-demand
labor. A large and growing body of scholarship has attempted to predict the socio-technical …

Some of the challenges that designers face in getting broad external input from customers
during and after product launch include geographic limitations and the need for physical …

In engineering systems design, designers iteratively go back and forth between different
design stages to explore the design space and search for the best design solution that …

In recent years, with the rapid development of manufacturing, information, and management
technology, advanced manufacturing systems (AMSs) have become increasingly more and …

Digital platforms, along with their supporting tools and features, have emerged as important
enablers for firms to leverage distributed knowledge (Sedera et al., 2016), because they …

Collaborative innovation (co-innovation) community emerges as a new product design
platform where companies involve users in the new product development (NPD) process …

The objective of this dissertation is to contribute empirical evidence on the behavior and
effectiveness of design thinking for tackling problems in complex environments. This thesis …

Drastic increases in the scale and complexity of engineered systems present many new
challenges for the product development (PD) and engineering design communities. PD is …