January 11, 2016
Innovative organizations have long recognized the value of collaboration between well-matched partners. University and government labs can make particularly appealing partners, as they often have...
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November 02, 2012
The Collaboration Continuum project set out to understand the business value of Enterprise 2.0 systems (including tools such as social networking forums, blogs, wikis, among others) in enabling...
September 16, 2015
The session will look at a comparison of published methodologies for determining the most innovative companies and will illustrate the shortcoming in these methodologies. Next, we will look at the...
May 01, 2010
Innovation strategy helps a company in three ways: exciting its customers, outperforming competitors, and building a new product portfolio. The literature describes many frameworks for innovation...
January 01, 2009
When French company Groupe Bull prepared to merge with American firm Zenith Data Systems, American and French and engineers working for Bull discussed the difficulties of working with each other. As...
June 03, 2016
Finding opportunities for growth is essential but it’s also incredibly challenging. Traditional methods of filling the innovation pipeline - from internal brainstorming to segment-by-segment market...
August 30, 2016
Personal computers, smartphones, 3D printing, the World Wide Web: these world-changing inventions, and many others like them, all emerged from small cells of obsessed innovators out to change the...
October 17, 2016
Innovation in R&D is a perpetual challenge, but online crowdsourcing platforms have enabled unprecedented opportunities to find creative inspirations and spark novel connections between ideas...
January 01, 2009
When French company Groupe Bull prepared to merge with American firm Zenith Data Systems, American and French and engineers working for Bull discussed the difficulties of working with each other. As...
April 01, 2008
In professional sports, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired and/or the player is able to sign a contract with another team. Prior to free agency, a player was...
September 01, 2006
Over the past two decades, there has been a series of alarming reports about the insufficiency of either the size or the growth of the United States science and engineering workforce. Earlier...
September 01, 2006
Life scientists are frustrated by aspects of their organizations that they feel make it harder to accomplish the goals for which they were trained and hired. They report unclear goals, communication...
February 23, 2017
This project is working to determine effective ways that business objectives can be incorporated and communicated into R&D to provide motivation for technical staff and to measure performance of...
March 22, 2017
Building on recent ETN discussions of University collaboration models, this session serves to highlight two comparable models for external collaboration – the first discusses industrial research...
March 27, 2017
Sonoco is currently in the process of updating dashboard metrics to track progress against innovation goals for the company. We would like to get feedback on what priority metrics your company tracks...
September 01, 2005
The celebration of America’s 229th Independence Day is an excellent time to reflect on what this freedom has meant to America in terms of science and innovation. The United States has clearly enjoyed...