Can you recommend an open innovation intermediary? Does anyone have recommendations for any open innovation partners, scouting firms, or intermediaries who specialize in or have capabilities aimed...
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July 13, 2018
Breakout Session Corporate research collaboration with major academic centers has called for rethinking the balance between academic and corporate roles in these relationships. Discover how a leading...
January 01, 2010
During the first half of 2009, the Research & Technology Executive Council of the Corporate Executive Board interviewed and surveyed R&D executives ( 1 ) from over 100 global companies ( 2 )...
May 01, 2010
Making the connection between innovation and strategy is among the most challenging aspects of managing a technology organization. Perhaps this is because making it work is so particular to the...
May 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: This paper describes a new business model for advancing NASA human health and performance innovations and demonstrates how open innovation, including the use of crowdsourcing and technology...
July 01, 2010
Most organizations now place a major emphasis on innovation as a pathway to corporate growth. The R&D manager is a central player in that effort, and not just to supervise the development of new...
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...
May 09, 2017
Dr. Jackson shares his perspective on how external collaboration, crowdsourcing, and startup incubation can play a significant role in dramatic future aerospace and defense capabilities. Lockheed...
Tuesday April 26, 2016 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Learn how to find, evaluate, and manage scouting opportunities that build a strategic advantage for your firm. Find out what mistakes companies often make in their scouting process and discover easy ways to avoid them.
March 01, 2008
In recognition of the authorship of “Maximizing Return on Innovation Investment,” deemed to be the best original paper published in RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT in 2006. The winning paper was...
How do you encourage internal collaboration? How do you manage and leverage your internal capabilities to drive collaborative innovation activities? How do you facilitate and motivate internal...
January 10, 2020
Innovation Structure can be defined as the team structures that are best for innovation. Structures can be temporary project teams or permanent teams such as an incubator. Innovation Governance can...
September 01, 2010
Product and business innovation are integral to corporate growth. Insights into improving the design and development process can help achieve better innovation outcomes. We report the findings of a...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Living labs are innovation infrastructures within which software companies and research organizations collaborate with lead users and early adopters in creating participative strategies to...
March 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: With the diffusion of the open-innovation paradigm, more companies are selling their technological knowledge, disembodied from physical artifacts, to other organizations in an attempt to...
January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: In the context of open innovation, firms increasingly rely on the collaboration of suppliers in their innovation processes. However, not all competent suppliers are willing to collaborate...