May 01, 2007
Disruptive innovations increasingly originate in private sector emerging growth firms—or gazelles, as they are commonly called. Unfortunately, managers of large corporations find it difficult to...
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November 09, 2016
Lessons from IARPA's Research Programs OVERVIEW: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is a research arm of the US intelligence community. IARPA research programs are undertaken...
January 01, 2013
Following several years of wide investment swings due to a drastically changing economic landscape, the Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI) 2012 survey results suggest that R&D leaders are...
March 07, 2017
As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While much of the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on idea competitions that cross...
May 03, 2017
In 280 BC, a Greek general added fighting elephants to his ranks and won two battles against the Romans. But in doing so, he suffered terrible losses. Plutarch quotes him as saying, “If we are...
January 20, 2017
Welcome to RTM’s 60th year. In this celebratory first issue of our 60th volume, we’ve mostly celebrated our past by looking ahead to the future—the commentaries that make up the bulk of this issue,...
May 01, 2004
Success in technology development depends increasingly on speed to profitable commercialization. This calls for a new type of technology development management. As projects move from opportunity...
September 01, 2005
Although alliances are increasingly important to pharmaceutical companies, about 60 percent of alliances fail to produce their desired outcomes. Most of these failures are due to non-technical...
July 01, 1994
Too many myths prevail about how to manage new product projects. This article probes what truly separates winners from losers in the new product game. It reports the results of a study of 103 new...
May 01, 1984
The sudden popularity of technology transfer as a problem to be solved makes me feel a little like the protagonist in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilbomme. Upon acquiring an education late in life, he...
January 01, 2019
Recycling Carbon Dioxide to Address Climate Change Even as the Paris climate accords were signed in 2015, climate scientists warned that just eliminating further addition of CO2 to the atmosphere...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Forget the hype about self-driving cars. The first autonomous vehicles likely to hit public roads on a regular basis will haul freight. Commercial carriers simply have more economic...
July 01, 2018
An innovative culture is one in which radically new things can happen with some consistency. That culture is rare, and it requires nurturing. Like the seeds in Luke’s version of the parable of the...
September 01, 2018
Steve Blank is the founder of what has become the Lean Startup movement. In this interview, he discusses Lean Startup’s roots in customer development, its integration of Agile software practices, and...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Partner or rival? That’s a question many German executives, entrepreneurs, and policymakers are struggling to answer these days as China continues to snap up prized national technology...
October 31, 2019
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives Getting the Best out of Academic-Industrial Collaborations Peter Gwynne Europe Powers Up...