Fraunhofer IAO | Forschungsbereich | Cognitive Engineering and ProductionProgram - 27.09.2023
8:30 a.m. CEST
Arrival & Registration
09:00 a.m. CEST
Greetings and Opening Remarks
Dr.-Ing. Florian Herrmann | Deputy director of Fraunhofer IAO (DE)
09:15 a.m. CEST
InnoFrugal Conference: The Past and the Future
Venkata Gandikota | Co-founder of InnoFrugal (FI) and visiting fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School (UK)
09:30 a.m. CEST
The rise of Frugal Innovation in Research
Adrian Sins | Scientist at the Center for Frugal Products and Manufacturing Systems at Fraunhofer IAO (DE)
09:45 a.m. CEST
FRANCIS: Frugal Innovation by Citizens for Citizens
Solène Delarue | Project Manager at Agorize (FR)
Rachel O'Boyle | Advisor at The Behavioural Insights Team (UK)
Gencer Özkazman | Innovation Manager at BSH Turkey (TR)
10:15 a.m. CEST
Coffee Break and Lab Tour
11:00 a.m. CEST
Session 1 - Creating Frugal-friendly Policies
Online: Carmen Antuna Rozado | Senior scientist at VTT (FI)
Onsite: Martin Maga | Senior scientist at Fraunhofer IRB (DE)
How Should a Government BE? Implications of Frugal Innovation
Prof. Jaideep Prabhu | Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School (UK)
Psychological Barriers to Innovation Adoption among Smallholder Farmers: An Integrative Study and Policy Strategies
Nopparuj Chindasombatcharoen | Researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute (THA) and PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge (UK)
12:30 p.m. CEST
Lunch Break
01:30 p.m. CEST
Session 2 - Linking Sustainability, Digitalisation and Frugal Innovation
Online: Giovanna Sanchez Nieminen | Senior Scientist at VTT (FI)
Onsite: Martin Maga | Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer IAO (DE)
Frugal Digital Solutions
Allan A. Báez Morales, Director of Programs and Partnerships of the Frugal Innovation Hub at Santa Clara University (US)
Frugal Digital Innovation & Transformation: Impacting Business, Society, and the Environment
Prof. Dr. Rajnish Tiwari | Professor of Business Administration and Global Innovation at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences (DE)
03:00 p.m. CEST
Coffee Break
03:30 p.m. CEST
Session 3 - Insights into Recent Studies on Frugal Innovation
Onsite: Martin Maga | Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer IRB (DE)
Characteristics of Frugal Innovations: Insights from an Empirical Study
Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner | Head of the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography of the University of Hannover (DE)
Frugal Innovation in the Machine and Plant Engineering Industry: Results of a Study by the German Engineering Federation VDMA
Liza Wohlfart | Senior Scientist and Head of the Center for Frugal Products and Manufacturing Systems at Fraunhofer IAO (DE)
04:15 p.m. CEST
Frugal Innovation: The Malaysian Experience
Susana Binti Kamaruddin | Principal Engineer at the Industrial Research Management Centre of SIRIM Berhad (MY)
05:00 p.m. CEST
Frugal Innovation Revisited: How to Develop Frugal and Sustainable Innovations
Jonas Fröhlich | Scientist at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research ENI at the University of Stuttgart (DE)
from 05:30 p.m. CEST
Snack and Chat
Science, Food and Beer
