March 06, 2018
INVISTA is one of the world’s leading companies in nylon, spandex, polyester, and specialty materials owning such brands as STAINMASTER® flooring, DYTEK® amines, and TERATE® polyols. INVISTA...
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May 14, 2018
The People’s Republic of China came late to space activity. It didn’t launch its first Earth-orbiting satellite until 1970, the year after the first American astronauts landed on the Moon. And not...
November 29, 2018
Servitization has attracted significant attention from the manufacturing industry for its potential to provide competitive advantage. Advanced services require alternative pricing models, such as pay...
March 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: We surveyed 125 large firms in Europe and the United States with annual sales in excess of $250 million to examine the extent to which large firms are now practicing open innovation. Our...
September 01, 2014
It is, at this point, a consensus so widely shared as to represent something very like accepted fact: the Western intellectual property system is broken. The net-work of protections and grants that...
October 17, 2012
Chemistry Aimed at Upgrading Lignin Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, PhD, Department of Chemistry & Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University Lignin is the second in abundance component of...
May 02, 2016
I Right now, the Opportunity Rover is exploring the Marathon Valley on the surface of Mars, more than 100 million miles away. The Dawn spacecraft is studying the dwarf planets of Vesta and Ceres at...
January 01, 2015
R&D carried out by Oshkosh Corporation, a company that designs and builds specialty trucks and truck bodies, provides more bang for the buck than that performed by Google, Netflix, and other...
January 20, 2017
Much has been made of the contribution Gutenberg’s printing press (1440) made to the spread of Martin Luther’s Theses (1517), and hence to the launch and spread of the Protestant Reformation...
February 2015 - October 2017 Completed October 2017 Deliverables Member Summit 2017 Final Report Out Member Summit 2016 presentation Lean Start-up , Stevens Institute, 2015 Member Summit MVP Concept...
September 01, 2018
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives News and Analysis from the Global Innovation Scene MaryAnne M. Gobble From the Editor The...
October 25, 2018
This talk gives an overview of trends in artificial intelligence and how they will affect business and society in the coming years. The last decade has seen remarkable gains in machine learning and...
November 06, 2018
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives News and Analysis from the Global Innovation Scene MaryAnne M. Gobble From the Editor The...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Current approaches to open innovation can be characterized in two general categories: open-boundary innovation and open-source innovation. Open-boundary innovation is designed to source new...
November 01, 2013
Innovation is a magical thing. It transforms dross into gold, puts nature at our command, creates something new where there was once nothing. Throughout history, magicians (and charlatans) have used...
January 01, 2012
One of the best things about working in publishing is the fresh start. New articles, new topics, new themes to explore, six times a year . . . each issue brings a fresh set of challenges, as we work...