August 30, 2016
In recent years, new models of innovation based on crowdsourcing and innovation communities have emerged, and some have had notable success. Karim Lakhani has studied these models rigorously and...
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August 30, 2016
In the last installment of this column, I initiated a new series of topics aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to look critically at the profession's terms of art...
March 01, 2007
In “Connect & Develop Complements Research & Develop at P&G” (RTM, March–April2002), Nabil Sakkab described the company’s then new strategy of using corporate intranet and “smart”...
March 01, 2007
Companies and their shareholders stand to benefit from consistently developing and promoting their intellectual property portfolios with a structured IP story. An IP story shows how a company...
May 01, 2007
The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a widely accepted methodology of inventive concept generation that emphasizes predictive methods and evolutionary trends. Strategic inventing is a...
September 01, 2007
Mr. Darcy is the perfect dog: a two-year-old male Black Lab with boundless happy energy. He camps out by the glass kitchen door, and when a squirrel walks by outside, he snaps to attention and barks...
September 01, 2007
A technology-based company strives to sustain the flow of new product concepts and technologies that fuel its growth. Managing the technology development process involves tools of a different trade...
September 01, 2007
It had been a busy six months for “Hank Sympson,”XYZ’s new R&D vice president. Brought in to head R&D after Tom Evers retired, Hank had been charged by corporate management with revitalizing...
January 01, 2006
One of the main challenges for technology-driven industries is to rapidly transform R&D results into revenues. However, R&D activities are complex and unstructured phenomena that typically...
November 01, 2006
Financial data from 91 of the top 100 U.S. companies that invested in R&D during 2004 and 2003 were examined, including the relationship between these companies’ sales, profits, growth rates,...
May 02, 2017
Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid This column is the latest in a series of discussions aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession’s terms...
March 01, 2004
The global Technology Management Group (TMG) formed by General Motors in 1999 was charged with these key initiatives: manage and prioritize portfolios of advanced technical work, allocating funding...
January 04, 2018
Addressing resource-constrained customers in emerging markets presents business opportunities beyond local market borders. Multinational corporations can leverage innovations developed for emerging...
May 14, 2018
Joint ventures between foreign enterprises and business partners in the People s Republic of China are confronting new economic and legal conditions. The new conditions require changes in the way...
July 01, 2018
Since the creation of the first innovation accelerator, Y Combinator, in 2005, corporate accelerators are increasingly being adopted as a way for established firms to source innovation from startups...
September 01, 2018
Spend and they will come. Scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and research ministers are lining up to grab a chunk of the €100 billion ($118 billion) the European Commission has proposed to spend...