Meet the Exhibitors
Brookhaven National Lab - #11
Brookhaven National Laboratory, a major multi-program Department of Energy laboratory on Long Island, NY conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences as well as in energy technologies and national security. BNL also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to industry, university, and government researchers and collaborators.
Ceramatec, Inc - #20
Ceramatec, a subsidiary of CoorsTek, is an advanced research and development company that specializes in ionic conducting ceramics, electrochemistry and advanced materials. Ceramatec performs research for a large number of fortune 100 and 500 companies. Ceramatec takes pride in addressing “hard” customer challenges in a transformative way. Please stop by our table to say hello!
Chevron* - #9
Chevron is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide. The company's success is driven by the ingenuity and commitment of its employees and their application of the most innovative technologies in the world.
Enrich Consulting* - #3
Enrich Consulting provides tools and services for innovation management, strategic project assessment and portfolio management to a variety of industries. Our solutions are based on decades of experience deploying portfolio management solutions, and are used by firms worldwide to monitor and evaluate tens of billions of dollars of R&D investments.
ExxonMobil* - Main Foyer - Booth 1
ExxonMobil is the world's largest publicly traded international oil and gas company. We use innovation and technology to provide energy that helps underpin growing economies and improve living standards around the world. We explore for, produce, and sell crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum and petrochemical products.
Future of Technology Management - #19
IRI celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2013 and wishes to conduct a strategic foresights study to engage the IRI community in developing provocative yet plausible views of the next 25 years’ events, developments and other change forces that will impact the art and science of research and technology management.
Gen3 - #31
GEN3 is an Open Innovation Services Provider, combining a systematic methodology and Global Knowledge Network to produce real innovation impact. The world’s greatest consumer packaged goods and industrial companies engage GEN3 for proven results and speed to market based on GEN3’s technical strength and global reach, and because IP is owned by the client.
illumin8 from Elsevier* - #4
illumin8 is a powerful web based research tool that provides innovation and R&D professionals with actionable insights from scientific, patent, and news content—resulting in more confident decisions during the early stages of innovation.
The Inovo Group* - #15
Founded in 2001, Inovo helps technology-driven, Global 1000 firms to identify significant unmet needs and conceive of compelling, new-to-the-world products, services, and business models. Employing a rigorous-yet-flexible, theory-based innovation framework, Inovo collaborates on projects with firms across numerous industries, resulting in meaningful new growth opportunities for our clients.
Intellectual Ventures* - #1
The Intellectual Ventures Invention Development Fund partners with R&D companies in three important ways: monetizing your non-core IP, sourcing of critical new IP for your next generation products from our current portfolio, and utilizing our broad network of inventors to solve your particular problems. Our Invention Capital model supports thousands of inventors worldwide.
Intertek - #12
Intertek is a leading provider of quality, safety, and sustainability solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world, including auditing, fuel testing, inspection and certification. Intertek people add value to customers' products and processes, supporting their success in the global marketplace.
Invetech - #14
Invetech is an innovator in new product development, custom automation and contract manufacturing. We work with our clients to develop breakthrough products and address complex automation challenges, creating business success by bringing better products to market faster.
IRI Video Stories - #28
Members of IRI are invited to tell us your IRI stories! We'll have a video on hand to capture short (or longer!) testimonials about your organization's experience with IRI. How has your membership added value to your R&D process? Your team? Your organization's practices? What is your favorite IRI memory? We are preparing for our 75th Anniversary and would like to highlight stories of the value you gain from membership!
IRI Diamond Jubilee Idea Center - #17
Help us prepare for IRI's 75th! Is there a speaker you'd like to hear at our Jubilee event? Is there a speaker you can help us confirm? Do you have specific ideas about which individuals we should invite to participate in our Diamond Jubilee? Talk to us about our plans and figure out where you could lend a hand. Whether it's helping with the Technology Tournament, or recommending organizations that could help us realize our plans.... all ideas and suggestions are welcomed!
Mindjet - #23
More than two million individuals, thousands of small businesses, and 83% of Fortune 100 companies use Mindjet to generate ideas, organize information, store and share data, and manage workflow, maximizing the power of collaboration. Mindjet products are perfect for project managers who want to assign and track work, c-level executives who must accelerate the implementation of strategic initiatives and developers who need to capture design requirements and track progress.
NewEdge - #27
NewEdge is an innovation strategy, insight, and design firm focused on delivering growth by touching customers in new ways. By blending an award-winning design studio with the disciplines of a business strategy and research consultancy, we have created visual, engaging and inspiring processes that generate meaningful product and service outcomes.
NineSigma* - #5
Organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors hire NineSigma as their global innovation partner. NineSigma’s experience, insight and real-time knowledge of the global innovation market helps organizations use innovation with complete confidence. This leads to bolder decisions at the strategic level; faster, more inventive product development and, ultimately, a culture of “anything’s possible” throughout the organization.
Perception Partners - #21
Perception Partners is a global advisory services firm that analytically and visually helps clients understand and maximize the value derived from innovation and IP. Our analysis of the world’s available science, business and legal facts provide actionable solutions in six key areas: competitive landscaping, white space analysis, partner identification, technology scouting, FTO and IP valuation.
Sopheon* - #2
Sopheon offers the industry’s only enterprise innovation management solution for defining, aligning, and managing activities across the entire innovation lifecycle. Accolade, our flagship software system, was built from the ground up to guide and facilitate high-value product innovation. It supports all four core innovation-related business process areas: innovationplanning, product portfolio management, ideation, and gated-process execution.
Sustainability Maturity Models - #16
The Research-on-Research Working Group will be exhibiting at the 2012 Tech Fair. The working group offers a tool to help your company assess your path along the sustainability maturity model. Your involvement will enable us (and you) to understand your status as compared to others in your industry and across the broader IRI community.
UniServices - #13
Auckland UniServices is the Technology Company of the University of Auckland. It is responsible for all of the contract research, industry collaboration and technology transfer activities for the University. With Revenues of over $120million per annum and clients in over 50 countries, it is one of the largest companies of its type in the world. We actively seek voice of market and industrial links to inform research and provide rapid transfer of innovation back to Industry.
Wellspring Worldwide - #24
Wellspring Worldwide unifies the discovery process for organizations seeking to transform knowledge into innovation. Our software products manage every step of the Knowledge Supply Chain, enabling industry-leading companies to harness their network of intellectual assets for competitive advantage.
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