March 01, 2004
Trans-Atlantic Brain Drain Worries Europe's Policy Makers 3M Reinvents its Innovation Process Slow Growth Estimated in U.S. R&D Spending Estimated for 2013 Keeping up with the Future II Step 1:...
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November 01, 1981
The statistics for successful investment in R&D are not very impressive. Perhaps one of twenty major projects that starts out in the laboratory has produced a positive cash flow, even though the...
July 01, 2019
Critics claim that the European Union is behind the ball when it comes to artificial intelligence. But the bloc may actually be ahead of the pack when it comes to the fuel that powers this technology...
September 01, 2012
In a 1970 article in the New York Times Magazine , Milton Friedman asserted that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its re-sources and engage in activities de-signed...
May 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: The significant role of technology in strategic business activities and new-product development has driven companies to create a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) position to lead and direct...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: Dow Chemical’s Polyolefins and Elastomers (PO&E) business was doing so poorly in 1991 that it was being considered for divestiture. This first of two articles describes how a five-step...
January 01, 2009
Dow Chemical’s Polyolefins and Elastomers (PO&E) business was doing so poorly in 1991 that it was being considered for divestiture. This first of two articles describes how a five-step approach...
November 19, 2018
Intelligent Systems - the Big Picture Gayle Sheppard, NewAI.co Smart Horizons: Preparing for the Future of Intelligent Systems Jim Redden, RTI Innovation Advisors Artificial Intelligence and the...
July 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Reverse innovation is not always either foreseeable or explicitly pursued by Western companies operating in emerging economies. Sometimes, it arises from the initiative of the foreign...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Current approaches to open innovation can be characterized in two general categories: open-boundary innovation and open-source innovation. Open-boundary innovation is designed to source new...
July 01, 2013
In the post-World War II boom, the aim of the big corporation was to become bigger—integration and diversification were the watchwords. But the economic and political upheavals of the 1970s left...
November 01, 2013
Innovation is a magical thing. It transforms dross into gold, puts nature at our command, creates something new where there was once nothing. Throughout history, magicians (and charlatans) have used...
November 01, 2013
The articles in this special issue offer a diverse collection of views on the future of innovation, but they agree on one point: the future will be different. New technologies—and old problems—are...
January 01, 2012
One of the best things about working in publishing is the fresh start. New articles, new topics, new themes to explore, six times a year . . . each issue brings a fresh set of challenges, as we work...
May 01, 2012
On the night of October 9, 1604, Italian citizens recorded their astonishment that the universe had changed for the first time in centuries. As they looked to the night sky, they found a new star had...
September 01, 2012
My son, Richard, is autistic. Autism is a “spectrum disorder,” which means that it manifests itself with a wide variety of symptoms and severities. Autism appears to be growing in prevalence, but no...