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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...
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...
IRI is home to a worldwide network of cross-industry leaders interested in driving innovation and new growth -- representing small specialty companies, large global corporations, government labs, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...