July 01, 2013
For the past 25 years I have watched companies large and small struggle to prepare for the future, lead into the future, and execute into the future. The past keeps tugging them back. And it happens...
Learning Center
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.
Wednesday May 25, 2016 – Thursday May 26, 2016
Lively roundtable discussions and a full-day Portfolio Management Master Class led by Dr. Richard Bayney. Learn to shape the strategic and financial goals of your company.
April 09, 2015
An argument in favor of creating the climate necessary to protect and encourage innovators and inventors. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/04/09/we-have-to-keep-inventors-inventing/
Friday June 12, 2020 10:00am
Are you an entrepreneur or do you work with them? Join our webinar "The State of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem" to learn from two experts how the Philadelphia and regional ecosystem has adapted and...
November 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: The forces of democratization and disintermediation, largely unleashed by the software revolution, have already remade several major industries, among them computing, publishing, and retail...
May 01, 2009
Science, math and technology have been struggling with an image problem. For some time now, our culture has glorified the worlds of sports and entertainment, leading children to believe that these...
November 16, 2015
A look at some of the ways large organizations fail to successfully implement lean startup. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/11/16/why-iri-members-struggle-with-lean-startup-in-their-companies/
January 01, 2014
The history of science is filled with the lives and legends of men and women who have made huge leaps forward in our knowledge and understanding. These people have made contributions that reverberate...
Thursday November 21, 2019 12:00pm
This webinar will help you find out about the three key phases of organizational digital transformation and specifically: The importance of defending today and winning tomorrow The importance of...
Thursday February 07, 2019 12:00pm – Thursday February 14, 2019 1:00pm
Digital transformation is an imperative. Work with IRI to help you prepare. IRI is working to create a new community around digital transformation. We will be holding three ideation/listening...
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...
September 01, 2009
Our minds are at the same time in the past, present and future. Our experience, personality and values, formed in the past, are the lens through which we view the challenges of the present, and our...
September 01, 2015
Neil Gershenfeld talks with Jim Euchner about the Internet of Things and the coming revolution in manufacturing. Neil Gershenfeld is a pioneer in understanding the boundary between the digital and...
January 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: This article presents a case study on MINATEC, a regional innovation cluster in Grenoble, France, encompassing several entities: applied and basic research institutes, a university, and...
May 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: While tools have been developed to assist firms’ decision making for bringing known products and components into the supply chain, fewer tools are available to guide the acquisition of...
March 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Firms make significant investments in R&D projects, yet the economic return is often difficult to predict because of significant technological and commercial uncertainty. We present an...