The Radical Innovation Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a project to create radically innovating new products out of new technologies. It is an exceptional project since it start from the technology, to find radical innovations and product concept, rather than the usual find a problem, then find the technological solution.[1] With the exception of the RIP project, the process view of creativity still dominate the innovation literature.[1]
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All projects in this center originated out of research and development projects, thus starting from a technology. The will is explicitly to create radical technology-based innovations. The study of those projects is expected to provide insight on how to manage fuzzy front end : the earliest, most unclear stage of product innovation when innovators don't know yet what will eventually be the product. It may enlightening what to expect and how to react successfully the fuzzy front end difficulties.[1]
It was found that early product research generally do not employ highly structured process as in the case of managing incremental NPD processes, but they follow logical processes (Veryzer, 1998). Such ultra-early stage are more exploratory and less customer driven. Starting from an emerging technology, it focus on definite a "product application". Prototypes are developed at an early stage to refined formulation, preceding opportunity analysis, market research, and financial analysis.[1]
The RIP have been studied by Leifer et al. (2000), O’Connor, Hendricks, and Rice (2002), O’Connor and Rice (2001), O’Connor and Veryzer (2001), Rice, Leifer, and O’Connor (2002), Rice et al. (2001).
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