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January 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: This article presents a case study on MINATEC, a regional innovation cluster in Grenoble, France, encompassing several entities: applied and basic research institutes, a university, and...
November 01, 2013
Before the Industrial Revolution, goods were produced by local artisans and craftsmen relying primarily on locally available materials and selling primarily to local customers. These artisans...
October 20, 2015
Digitalization and R&D: Collaboration Building on the success of IRI’s first strategic research platform, the IRI2038 Futures Study, we have launched our next ground-breaking study: ‘The Next...
April 28, 2015
Opening Keynote: Disruptive Technologies in Manufacturing Stephen Hoover, PhD, CEO, PARC, a Xerox Company "Manufacturing 2.0" is a radical shift already underway, and many key elements are taking...
April 28, 2015
Panel Discussion: Democratizing Innovation Jim Euchner, VP Global Innovation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Jonathan Kuniholm, President, Open Prosthetics Project Diego Tamburini, Manufacturing...
May 20, 2014
Augmented Reality: Establishing Interoperability Standards ROR Stage: exploration Augmented reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are...
March 07, 2014
Augmented reality (AR) in the workplace has made significant inroads and the awareness (followed by demand) is growing. There is a growing community of AR developers sprouting up to feed this market...
January 11, 2016
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene Europeans Help Refugee Scientists; Scientists Face the Cost of Irreproducible Results; Can 3D Printing Save 2D?; Making Batteries from Muck. View full...
October 28, 2009
Growing an emerging technology is challenging. As an R&D professional, your focus is on accelerating innovation – never an easy task. The rapid acceleration of technology development and...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning Participants explore a new business model for the Industrial Internet, including the historical context of the IOT and the convergence of factors that has given rise to this...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning Transformation is everywhere. Driven by technological, individual and societal forces transformation creates uncertainty. What are the ultimate causes of transformation taking place...
October 17, 2016
Imagine a factory that never stops and is constantly re-inventing itself to continuously improve products and how they are made. Enabled by a digital thread that weds virtual tools with physical...
January 01, 2009
Information–Communication Technologies (ICTs) are no longer just for internal use. Rather, in the era of open and distributed innovation, they must be leveraged by businesses and organizations to...
September 01, 2009
Inside a New York City loft in 2006, two entrepreneurs are working on the software to launch a new dot.com business they call Animoto. They hope to offer a service that will allow people to turn a...
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...