1. MOT 612
Innovation Management
Spring 2010
Examples
For Innovation Degree of Novelty
By:
Name: Al-Motaz Bellah Alaa ElDin Al-Agamawi

2. MOT 612: Class Two Assignment By:Al-Motaz Bellah Al-Agamawi, ID: 102027
FORMS AND TYPES OF INNOVATION TABLE:
Innovation Form Type
Transistor Product Radical
Transistor is the most important key components in most of today electronics and it has the greatest role
in the humanity advancement in electronics. Although transistor has first been patent by Julius Edgar
Lilienfeld in 1925 in Canada and then more research had been conducted by a team of research in AT&T
Bell Labs in 1947 but the first silicon transistor was produced in 1954i.
McLaren Baby Buggy Product Architectural innovation
Mclaren new baby buggy design in 1965 for a light weight, 3D fold design was a revolution for the ease
of use for parent compared to bulky pramii
Front Wheel Drive Product Architectural innovation
Front Wheel Drive Design is the most common in mass production cars today. Since early 1900 different
designs and trails to implement the concept was done, until the first consumer product was introduced by
BSA in 1929 then improvements continuediii.
SMS (Text) Message Service Modular Innovation
SMS was first thought to be added to GSM protocol in early 80s and the first consumer implementation
and availability was in 1993. Nokia was the first company which its entire product portfolio supports the
new SMS services in 1993. Although SMS is considered to be Modular Innovation but its effect is huge
(compared to Radical innovation ones) today there are more than 2.4 billion active users for SMS more
than 74% of the mobile handset usersiv.
Industrial Robot Process Incremental Innovation
The word Robot was first introduced in Czech in 1920 but the first industrial robot was introduced in
1956 was the first robotic patent which granted in 1961 and first Robotic company Unimation was
foundedv. So industrial robots was an incremental innovation for the radical innovation which is the
robotics in general.
EPOS Retail System Process Modular Innovation
Electronic point of sale retail system is a process innovation since it increases the efficiency of the cashier
and better manages the retail process. Also it is modular since it adds an automated module for the overall
retail selling process.
Safety Razor Product Incremental Innovation
Razor had been indentified and used by human being since the Bronze age. Safety Razor is an
incremental innovation. Safety razor was first invented in the early 18 century by a French man. Usage of
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3. MOT 612: Class Two Assignment By:Al-Motaz Bellah Al-Agamawi, ID: 102027
safety razor is easier, safer and requires less skill than the original straight razorvi.
Mosaic (1st Internet Browser) Product Architectural Innovation
Mosaic was not the first Internet browser, but it was the first to include images with text rather than
opening images in a separate screen, reliable and easy to install, inline graphics and the most important it
was the first browser to make it easy for ordinary people to use the internet. Until today most popular
internet browser applies many of the Mosaic concepts and architectural standardsvii.
Mountain Bike Product Architectural Innovation
Bikes was found since longtime ago but the mountain bike is a new architectural for bikes to be more
effective and useful in claiming the mountains.
YouTube Service Modular
Playing videos and downloading video from and on the internet was found before YouTube. YouTube
innovation was mainly giving the users the ability to share videos with each other in an effective, user
friendly, efficient streaming not requiring high bandwidth and free of charge. Also it worth mentioning
that they also have another type of innovation which is introducing a new business model for online video
sharing industry.
i
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor
ii
Reference: http://www.maclarenbaby.com/gb/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=137&Itemid=479
iii
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-wheel_drive
iv
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS
v
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_robot
vi
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_razor
vii
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
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