March 09, 2018
Companies often use new product sales (sometimes referred to as new product vitality) as a measure of R&D effectiveness. This metric is often reported as the ratio of new product sales (sales...
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Online Registration | Registration Form | Hotel Reservations | Agenda | Brochure | Group Outings Expand your networking and be sure to plan your travel to join us on one the tours scheduled for...
Do You Recommend Any Contract Research Organizations in Asia? We are a specialty chemicals producer and are evaluating conducting some of our research off shore in Asia (China or India). We are...
July 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: The use of targeted focus groups early in the design process allows new-product developers to refine specific design functions and features for a new product with direct input from the...
May 26, 2016
New Members to the Board of Directors also named at Annual Meeting Orlando, FL (May 26, 2016) : Dr. John B. Hillenbrand, Jr., Vice President of R&D at Armstrong Flooring was named chairman of the...
October 17, 2012
Putting Technology and Marketing in the Driver's Seat of Innovation Gregory W. Nelson, PhD, Senior VP and CTO, Eastman Chemical Company Like championship race cars, winning world-class innovation...
January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Many firms rely on a single new-product development process for all projects. But designing new products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product...
July 08, 2015
Diversity of IRI Membership Deepens with 11 New Companies in 2015 #IRIMembership Arlington, VA (July 8, 2015)— As the only technology association serving every industry, the Industrial Research...
A process that helps employees identify and choose a safe behavior over an unsafe one. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation...
September 16, 2013
GHS industry responsibilities and practices. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation... Fall 2013
Can you measure how the rest of the company feels about open innovation? As a company’s OI activities progress from entirely informal to having an established program and/or function to having an OI...
January 23, 2018
Intellectual Assets Management Network Spring 2018 Network Conference March 5-6, 2018 Brown Palace Hotel & Spa 321 17 th Street, Denver, CO 80202 Monday, March 5 7:30 am – 8:00 am Brown Palace...
September 15, 2015
Two ways to launch new technology offerings are to push technology forward to business and customers or to have business and market needs pull, i.e. seek out technology and product solutions. Very...
Our organization has a robust technology roadmap process and we are exploring various ways to make the data understandable and relevant to a broad customer set. How has your organization overcome this challenge? In addition, do you have recommendations for how your organization has engaged customers directly in roadmap plans and updates?
August 03, 2020
Innovating during a global crisis: Join us for three webinars this month. Next week Christian Crews will talk about what the Coronavirus Pandemic can teach us about R&D foresighting. Join us on...
How do you determine how long to hold on to IP? I am interested in learning how organizations determine when to keep intellectual property and when to give it up. What are the filters or questions...