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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.


Community Forum - How to Handle Unsolicited Ideas
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...
  • Community Forum
  • Open Innovation
  • Intellectual Asset Management
Code of Conduct
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...
Community Forum - Listening to Your Supply Chain
Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end-users or...
  • Community Forum
  • Leverage External Resources
  • New Product Development
  • supply chain
  • customer needs
Community Forum - Designing an Innovation Room
Do you have recommendations for designing an 'innovation room'? Don Eadie, Vice President, Technology, Kelsan Technologies Corp. We are moving into a new facility that will incorporate various...
  • Community Forum
  • Open Innovation
  • Culture
Community Forum - Inventors Names on Patent Applications
How do you list inventors' names on patent appliations? It is a long standing practice in the academic community to list authors of scholarly works in the order of their relative contributions. This...
  • Community Forum
  • Intellectual Asset Management
Community Forum - R&D Investment Assessment
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...
  • Community Forum
  • Metrics/Finance
  • Strategic Planning
  • Tools and Techniques
Research - Measuring R&D Effectiveness
2005 - 2008 Deliverables Technology Value Program Description Often referred to as the “metrics” team, this team spent several years enhancing the Technology Value Program (TVP). TVP is a tool to...
  • Research
  • IRI Research
  • Technology Value Program
Community Forum - Do you have a network of experts?
February 22, 2019
An IRI member organization wants to know if other companies have their own external networks of experts in different topics. We want to explore the value of having a confidential crowdsourcing group...
  • Community Forum
  • External Relations
  • Management
  • Leverage External Resources
Know-How and Trade Secrets
2003 - 2005 Deliverables Report out, Annual Meeting 2005 Research-Technology Management article , Volume 49, Issue 4, 2006 Description IRI Member Companies are engaging small high technology...
  • Research
  • Intellectual Asset Management
  • Research Archive
Member Summit 2016 - Growth Outside the Core
October 18, 2016
ROR stage: organization This project is seeking to identify (a) the specific best practices that IRI member companies use to identify whitespace opportunities and (b) actions successful organizations...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Identify New Business Opportunities
  • New Product Development
Winter Meeting 2015 - Reinventing Supplier Innovation Relationships
February 25, 2015
Findings include: Strong bias in the data: interviewees did not describe a set of principles that apply to a wide variety of customers or suppliers. They described one relationship that is better...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • External Relations
  • Leverage External Resources
  • Alliances/Collaborations
Partnerships Cancellation Policy
By signing your partnership contract, you agree to abide by all regulations set by IRI, including not using the attendee list for solicitation purposes, with the exception of what is allowed per...
Community Forum - Holding on to Intellectual Property
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...
  • Community Forum
  • Legal
  • Manage IP
  • Intellectual Asset Management
TVP - User Guide
Technology Value Program is a tool to enhance the effectiveness of R&D by providing a framework for selecting a small number of appropriate metrics.
  • Research
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Technology Value Program
2017 Annual Meeting - Growth Outside the Core
May 10, 2017
IRI Research Project This project is seeking to identify the specific best practices that IRI member companies use to identify whitespace opportunities and actions successful organizations take to...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Management
  • Commercialize New Technology
  • New Product Development
Research - Business Models for Collaboration
2011 Deliverables Report out, Member Summit 2011 Research-on-Research Reports , RTM, Volume 53, Issue 6, 2010 Description The Business Models for Collaborative Relationships working group was...
  • Research
  • New Business Development
  • Alliances/Collaborations
  • Business Models

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