Integrated Development of Products and Services

Abstract

The article focuses on innovation patterns in product-service systems and presents a conceptual framework for the integrated development of products and services. Traditionally, research in innovation patterns has dealt primarily with manufacturing systems. Since the early eighties, service innovation and its impact on economic growth increasingly focused on scientific interest. Although more comprehensive, commonly accepted concepts still remain to be elaborated innovative solutions in manufacturing and services, especially in product-service systems, and can be argued to show an increasing tendency towards pattern convergence. This hypothesis results in the research question of how the integrated development of products and services impacts the innovation systems of companies