September 01, 2009
There is no question that R&D is important both to firms and to the economy ( 1 ). For U.S. firms in the 25 most R&D-intensive industries, R&D expenditures comprise 5.8% of annual firm...
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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
January 01, 2008
More than ever, a business today requires innovation to achieve and sustain strong economic performance. At Deere & Company, effective innovation depends on four key pillars: a sustained...
January 01, 2008
There are some identifiable conditions that seem to nurture creativity and innovation, and the development of the Internet illustrates them. Stable interfaces that allow for substantial change within...
March 01, 2008
A survey of United Kingdom-based industrial companies has identified the development of systems architectures and the use of a robust approach to integrated systems design as important contributors...
March 01, 2008
The knowledge management process is increasingly seen as a key to organizational creativity and innovation. The evolving global business environment necessitates that organizations shift from a rigid...
April 01, 2008
Involving customers in the innovation process entails a host of new concerns, concepts and managerial decisions. Transitioning from older models of no or low customer involvement requires attention...
March 02, 2016
How did a Chinese guy end up in Silicon Valley managing an open innovation center for a German conglomerate? I grew up in a remote part of China; I came to the US in 1993 and studied electrical...
Tuesday June 26, 2018 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Please join us as RTI's Jim Redden interviews Nita Farahany, Duke University, a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies.
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March 01, 2015
In previous columns, I’ve written about the importance of vision and seeing over the horizon to anticipate future needs, and of the power of storytelling to help identify nonobvious needs. Recently,...
May 01, 2015
Electric Utilities and Energy Market Innovations; Big Demand for Big Data Scientists in Europe; Woods Hole sees Future in the “Blue Economy”; Quantum Dots: Beyond Solar Cells. View full article or...
May 01, 2014
Patent Reformers Take on The Trolls; Battery Research; Ethics and Law of Robots. View full article or download PDF http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5437/08956308X5703001 Volume 57, Issue 3, May-...
September 01, 2014
As the senior technical leader for vehicle design and infotronics, Venkatesh Prasad has led the creation of an open-source platform to blend the digital and automotive worlds. View full article or...
March 01, 2013
Obama’s Reelection and US Technology Policy, Outlook Cloudy for Germany’s Solar R&D, The Blossoming of Open Access. View full article or download PDF http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5437/...
March 01, 2013
J. Stephen Rottler is Chief Technology Officer and vice president, science and technology, at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. During his career at the lab, he has worked in or...
March 01, 2012
Joseph A. Miller Jr. is executive vice president and Chief Technology Officer of Corning Incorporated. Before joining Corning in 2001, Miller was Chief Technology Officer and senior vice president for...