incremental innovation

New incremental innovations or changes to the product allow growth to continue.

Incremental innovations - you should be constantly looking for ways to enhance your existing offering.

Most ideas submitted via an electronic suggestion box are limited to incremental innovation (doing things the way we always have but better).

Regimes are relatively inert and resistant to change being structured to incremental innovation following established trajectories.

Unsolicited ideas typically lead to incremental innovation.

Most Internet start-ups today are built on a blend of incremental innovations in software and the pursuit of some market niche.

Competitive advantage today comes from continuous, incremental innovation and refinement of a variety of ideas that spread throughout the organization.

It is possible that the reverse salient is not able to be corrected within the bounds of the existing technological system through incremental innovations.

It cites two Wharton School professors who say that Six Sigma leads to incremental innovation at the expense of blue skies research.

"It's a very important, longer-term trend of incremental innovation," said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School.

He concludes "there's general agreement that freedom in basic or pure research is preferable while Six Sigma works best in incremental innovation when there's an expressed commercial goal."

There is nothing wrong with incremental innovation, in fact the ideas leading to projects resulting from incremental innovation typically yield rapid revenue gains or cost savings.

The more radical and revolutionary innovations tend to emerge from R&D, while more incremental innovations may emerge from practice - but there are many exceptions to each of these trends.

The 2005 law allows patents to be granted on new versions of older, off-patent medicines if the new version can be shown to represent a significant improvement on the original, but not in the case of "incremental innovations."

In March 2011, he participated in an Oxford-style debate sponsored by The Economist about whether the disruptive innovation model championed by the West is superior to the incremental innovation model common in Japan.

Innovation focuses on efforts towards creating a strong science base in Europe and making Europe an attractive location for the best researchers; ensuring a fair reward for innovation, including incremental innovation and ensuring a high level of protection for Intellectual Property Rights.

This report led to controversy, which was voiced by the Communist Party of India (CPI-M), certain NGOs and certain sections of the drugs and pharmaceutical industry of India, which were keen on maintaining a system that did not allow for incremental innovations to be patented in this sector.