What are your technology readiness levels? An IRI member company is resetting its innovation process and is seeking peer information to help align expectations with internal stake holders. Survey...
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1. Purpose and Basis for these Principles The Innovation Research Interchange (hereinafter IRI) has adopted and implemented Participation Principles to govern the use of its intellectual property...
Early 2015 - October 2016 Deliverables Big Data Primer (document available to IRI members only) RTM Article on Big Data and R&D Management Research Note: Big Data and R&D Management...
As an IRI Member, you can search for contacts in your area of expertise, region, or job title. You can also view colleagues by event participation. Simply click the down arrow next to 'Select a Query...
The TVP 2.1 tool is a resource for members of the Industrial Research Institute. Member log-in is required. Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics Information for...
2013 - 2015 Deliverables Report-Out 2014 Member Summit Description This ROR sought to explore how sustainability can be used as a source of innovation success and business growth by IRI members:...
Hack-a-thons are single live meetings held to tackle one particular, discreet challenge facing R&D practitioners, typically lasting two hours to one full day. The goal is to create a deliverable...
2011 Deliverables Report out Member Summit 2010 Perspectives , RTM, Volume 54, Issue 3, 2011 Order The Gender Diversity Best Practices Playbook Description The increasing number of female graduates...
Shortage of Strategic Metals 2012 - 2013 Deliverables Report-Out Winter Meeting 2013 Dealing with Shortages of Critical Materials , RTM, Vol 56, September-October 2013 Description The working group...
2003 - 2005 Deliverables Report out, Annual Meeting 2005 Research-Technology Management article , Volume 49, Issue 4, 2006 Description IRI Member Companies are engaging small high technology...
(Study the impact on R&D of globalization of competition, markets, science, and technology) This study was conducted in cooperation with CIMS and MIT, beginning with a survey of current practice...
2010 - 2014 Deliverables Report out Member Summit 2014 Description This ROR investigated how firms develop innovation workforce excellence and career paths for innovation experts as a mechanism for...
2011 - 2014 Deliverables Report out Winter Meeting 2014 Description IRI’s ROR working group on Virtual Teams explored best practices that differentiate successful virtual teams, including hybrid...
February 2011 - Member Summit 2012 This group is exploring the most effective processes for identifying disruptive technologies early enough for businesses to benefit from the opportunity or to...
(Study how to improve the transfer of technology from R&D to manufacturing) This project developed four case studies on the R&D/manufacturing interface that were presented at the 1986 IRI...
(Understand needs for technical intelligence at the management and practitioner levels and develop a self-assessment tool) This subcommittee has done extensive work with the Society of Competitive...