A process innovation model at Company ABC R&D : developing an innovation model for explorative and exploitative process innovations in a manufacturing environment

Innovation is a well studied and described topic in which process innovation is a much less mature topic compared to new product development (NPD). In particular in manufacturing, process development is a key part of the total innovation portfolio. The management and structures of these innovation processes is a well studied topic but again primarily for NPD projects. In this thesis the topic of structuring process innovation projects is researched for Company ABC, and in specific Company ABC R&D.