This is a case study of an ambitious innovation project in the field of electric vehicles. It demonstrates the challenges of adoption and diffusion and some of the issues in managing a large-scale start-up venture. Better place An excellent review of business models for electric vehicles is available from the Cambridge Service Alliance 2015
adoption and diffusion
Absorptive capacity audit
Absorptive capacity audit. This is a self-assessment tool to help explore absorptive capacity within an organization.
Accelerating diffusion activity
This activity is designed to help explore the theme of innovation adoption and diffusion. Accelerating diffusion activity
Gunfire at Sea
This is a famous case study which highlights the challenges of introducing radical ideas into established organizations. Click to view: http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/TT/Sims/Sims.pdf

Activities

Cases

Deeper Dives
- Sector Innovation Patterns
- Search strategies for peripheral vision
- Responsible innovation framework
- Policy Deployment Cases
- Intelligent design
- High involvement innovation – deep dive
- Deep dive: Frugal innovation
- Deep dive – Supply chain learning
- Deep dive – Servitization
- Deep dive – Open and user led innovation – OUI
