What should IRI tell the President about the barriers to advanced manufacturing? With a focus on new approaches and options that could be added to the President's platform, what might the government...
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August 19, 2010
The Industrial Research Institute, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, awards $500,000 to North Carolina State University for Lignin Research IRI program identifies pre-competitive...
April 17, 2020
*We received multiple similar responses, so we have listed all answers in aggregate below: Wellness checks: Temperature checks upon arrival. Every person coming to the lab completes a wellness...
Business Attractiveness Sales profit potential Financial return New sales ratio Cost savings ratio R&D Yield R&D Return Projected value of the R&D pipeline Sales Income Growth potential...
Definition of a stage gate model and efficiency metrics.
1.0 Definition of the Innovation Process The term "innovation process" refers to the overall process in a company for conceiving and developing ideas and concepts into profitable products and...
Can you recommend a consultant who can assess our overall R&D investment? I am looking for some guidance/recommendations for consulting firms to complete an "optimized state" for our current...
July 01, 2009
The ability of internal R&D to contribute to a company’s revenue growth is weakened by the presence of conditions termed R&D Value Eroders TM. These conditions erode the relevance of R&D...
Monday October 29, 2018 2:00pm – Tuesday October 30, 2018 4:00pm
The topic of both 2018 CTO Forums is Digital Transformation - the progress of digital usage beyond simply supporting and enhancing traditional methods to inherently enabling new types of innovation,...
November 20, 2013
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2013 Maurice Holland Award Presented San Jose, CA (November 20, 2013) – The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced yesterday the winners of its prestigious...
March 01, 2014
A career in R&D is an interesting one. It offers the opportunity for continuous learning, the chance to work with interesting people, and the satisfaction of creating something new. Yet there are...
March 01, 2011
Longhua, China, is a very new city that expresses a very old idea. A suburb of the city of Shenzhen, Longhua is home to 300,000 people, most of whom work for the same company. In fact, the...
September 01, 2009
Advances in science and engineering have brought the world to a place where distance no longer matters. In such a world it is necessary to ask how well Americans are being equipped to compete for...
September 01, 2009
It is a commonplace that innovation requires risk taking and that risk taking leads to failure. New product failure rates of 50 percent are not uncommon. Increasingly, corporations seek to formally...
Can you help with Life Cycle Analyses? We are interested in gaining expertise on Life Cycle Analyses and methodologies. Do you have any information or recommendations for training, courses,...
The Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) accelerates growth, captures insights, challenges convention, pioneers practices and cultivates leaders. At IRI, we focus on the three domains of innovation...