May 01, 2020
As the versatile, inexpensive plastics we depend on drown us in a sea of waste, a resulting “plastiphobia” is spurring demands for solutions. More and more companies have committed to increasing...
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September 02, 2020
As I write this, the world is on the downhill side of its first pandemic in 100 years. In the 6 months that the coronavirus has raged around the world, it has infected more than 9 million people and...
Goal: To identify the specific best practices that IRI firms use to identify whitespace opportunities and actions successful firms take to overcome barriers to commercializing these opportunities...
January 04, 2018
The Innovation Research Interchange (IRI), formerly known as the Industrial Research Institute, announced the winners of its prestigious Holland Award at its Member Summit in Fort Worth, Texas, on...
January 20, 2017
This issue begins RTM’s 60th continuous year of publication. Originally called Research Management, it was founded as a journal by and for practitioners of research and development in order to share...
November 01, 2010
Peter Grubstein is Executive Managing Director at NGEN Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in the “cleantech” sector. At IRI’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Peter spoke about the role of venture...
November 01, 2010
Peter Grubstein is Executive Managing Director at NGEN Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in the “cleantech” sector. At IRI’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Peter spoke about the role of venture...
June 27, 2016
An Interview with Navi Radjou Frugal innovation, jugaad innovation, and reverse innovation have grown in importance in recent years as competitors from emerging markets have demonstrated new ways of...
November 09, 2016
This column is the latest in a series of topics aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession's terms of art, exploring their origins and map-ping...
March 01, 2006
Setting the level of R&D spending is one of the most important strategic decisions made by top management of technology-based firms. The delay between the commitment to expenditure for R&D...
July 01, 2006
Catherine and Marcus leave college with advanced technical degrees and spend 20 years climbing the corporate ladder until today they are vice presidents of R&D and CTOs of comparable firms. They...
September 01, 2006
Managing R&D in a large enterprise is ultimately about achieving momentum in the marketplace. Over the last three years, The Boeing Company has developed and applied a new process for managing...
November 01, 2006
“How does the level of business innovation investment really impact company growth and performance? ”This question was put to an Industrial Research Institute panel for discussion at its annual...
May 01, 2017
While much has been written about the attributes of successful leaders in general, limited literature is available regarding the attributes specific to successful R&D leaders. Key questions about...
July 01, 2017
When crowdsourcing intermediaries lose crowd members, they lose potential high-quality solutions in the future. As the number of contests and intermediaries grows, it is increasingly critical for...
November 01, 1999
Heightened expectations for growth from internal technology suggest a requirement to improve the productivity of the “fuzzy front-end” of the innovation process. Its description as an organizational...