Technology Readiness Level and Design Thinking: A review of cases observed from a research seedbed
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Technology Readiness Level - TRL, Design Thinking, Case studies, FailureAbstract
This document focuses on the analysis of the different technological innovations or product development, observed as failures when failing in any of the different stages of the Technology Readiness Level (TRL), being presented as mini case studies, systematization carried out from a hotbed of investigation., and that is interesting since usually the success cases are deeply documented and not the failures. The document reviews the literature both related to TRLs, and its various axes of analysis, as well as Design Thinking, a tool both to shorten the time in the advancement of TRLs and to improve expectations of success in the development of technologies and products. The objective of the research is to closely examine several examples of products that, despite having successful launches, did not remain on the market. This study seeks to detect errors, learn from them and propose practical measures to improve the creation and development processes of new products. As a methodology, a set of case studies of products recognized in the world market that have failed either as technological solutions or in their acceptance by the market have been reviewed; The review has been carried out based on information available on the web from both the company that offers the product and critics. The analysis is carried out explaining the company, the product, as well as the possible failure or error. As a result, mini case studies are presented, and reflections on how Design thinking together with TRL can improve the development of technologies and products, from the perspective of the hotbed it is a learning not only about technical aspects of TRL and Design Thinking but also about failure in the development of companies and products
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