Sustainable product innovation: the importance of the front-end stage in the innovation process Ghent University
The very early phase in the product innovation process, the so-called front-end of innovaU+2010 tion (FEI), is the stage of the innovation process where product strategy formulation, opporU+2010 tunity identification, idea generation, idea selection and concept development take place and decisions about new product development are taken [1]. These first phases in the engiU+2010 neering design process have the largest impact on the end result of ...