Business model innovation as a turnaround strategy Chesbrough (2007) also argued that in order to achieve innovation, the development of technology and R&D is not sufficient, and business models should be innovated, and it can be done after “trial and error and ex-post adaptation. As the key actions taken by these firms were categorized under the different dimensions of business model, the findings of this research exactly emphasized that business model innovation can be considered as a turnaround strategy at the time of decline.

The means are described whereby a disc stack centrifuge may be scaled-down by up to 10-fold of its separation capacity. The centrifuge separation characteristics so measured are suitable for direct scale-up predictions of centrifuge performance where only small volumes of particle suspension are available for study. Such an ability to scale-down is especially important in the processing of biological particles where for example, in the early stage of process development, there is often insufficient fermentation broth for fullscale studies. Scale-down is achieved by the reduction of the number of discs available for separation purposes and by the careful positioning of these discs in the overall disc stack.