April 05, 2013
Join authors John Christiansen & Claus J. Vanes, department of operations management, Copenhagen Business School to discuss “ Improving Design with Open Innovation – A Flexible Management...
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April 01, 2011
Join Ivy Eisenberg, manager of technology planning and open innovation, Pitney Bowes, to discuss “Lead-User Research for Breakthrough Innovation,” published in the January-February 2011 issue of...
January 06, 2017
Techniques for Data-Driven R&D Talent Management Join Bill Pike, Director of the Computational and Statistical Analytics (CSA) Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for an encore...
How do you transition innovations from labs to business groups? How do IRI member companies transition innovations from research labs into the business organizations for commercialization? Do...
October 09, 2018
Last week we asked you to submit examples of job descriptions for innovation professionals. Here are the submissions: Director, Technology Innovation Senior Director of R&D Process Consultant...
March 22, 2017
This presentation will include an overview of open innovation, including the drivers and benefits of open innovation. It will discuss the characteristics of successful open innovation endeavors,...
Perspectives on the "Corporate "Fellow title and its variations.
Keynote Presenters Opening Keynote: Adaptive Innovation - The Fabric of Effective R&D Keoki Jackson, ScD, CTO, Lockheed Martin Tuesday, May 9 from 8:00 to 9:15 am Dr. Jackson shares his...
January 01, 2012
New Rules and Roles for the R&D “Lab” of the Future In May 2007, Richard Antcliff challenged IRI members with a presentation asserting the notion that “three tsunamis” were about to break upon R...
August 31, 2020
Anti-covid-19 medicines are being approved too easily What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common? All have been approved...
October 19, 2015
Innovation Culture: ROR Report Out Richard N. Dodge, II, R&E Senior Technical Director, Kimberly-Clark Corporation Sylvester Taylor, Director - Assessments, Tools, & Publications, Center for...
July 05, 2018
Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) recently hosted a gathering of chief technology officers for the purpose of finding solutions to one of the greatest R&D challenges to date: digital...
November 04, 2013
The IRI Sustainability-Driven Innovation working group conducted a quick survey of SDI practices among IRI firms attending the IRI Jubilee meeting in May 2013. Survey questions addressed the nature...
What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...
How do you handle unsolicited ideas from external sources? While using Open Innovation as a way of bringing in new ideas from the outside world, what is your company IP policy for unsolicited ideas...
Do You Recommend ISO Certification? Sandia's Science, Technology, and Engineering Management Unit is beginning a three-year journey to become ISO-9000 certified. Because work in this SMU constitutes...