May 30, 2014
Tony Singarayar of Analogy Growth Partners challenges organizations to really look at how they handle individuals who fail and to work hard to make those people an investment and not a failure. https...
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August 13, 2015
President of Carnegie Mellon University explains how universities and industrial organizations can form mutually beneficial partnerships and why it’s imperative that they do so. http://iriwebblog.org...
July 02, 2015
Nisson A. Finkelstein looks at the impact automation has on society and why we should be more accepting of the changes it brings. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/07/02/automation-automata-and-adam/#more-...
June 04, 2015
Harvard physics professor Harvey Brooks offers a look at what technology can do about technology and what kind of impact it has on our lives. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/06/04/4-views-of-technology-...
May 14, 2015
A comprehensive look at the transportation industry and its progress throughout the 20 th century and why Americans struggle to adopt a new way of moving around. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/05/14/...
March 19, 2015
A survey of the historical transformations in business and management and why the future will need leaders who can better adapt to change. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/03/19/leadership-for-change/
November 03, 2015
Ryan Dirkx serves as Vice President of Research and Development of Arkema Inc. and is responsible for R&D in North America as well as R&D coordination between the U.S. and France. He is a...
July 02, 2015
Innovation Imperative Our members know what it takes to innovate: a commitment to discovery, a talented and well-trained workforce, and an economic climate that rewards entrepreneurship and invention...
(Prepare a syllabus for continuing education of R&D professionals in their early years of transition from academia to industry) The Personnel Policies and Practices Subcommittee extended its work...
March 30, 2016
The ability to recruit exceptionally talented and capable management leaders is possibly the purest form of exceptional entrepreneurship and the key to organizational success. The correlation between...
September 01, 2009
I am pleased to assume the role of Editor in Chief of Research-Technology Management with this issue. As an industrial researcher and then manager of research and development organizations, I have...
November 01, 2013
Lab-to-Market Summit Calls for New Federal Office of Innovation and Federal Technology Partnerships; Genes, Patents, and the Supreme Court; Electroceuticals: GlaxoSmithKline’s Game-Changer?;...
November 01, 2012
Before assuming the job of corporate vice president and Chief Technology Officer at Chevron in 2008, John McDonald followed a career path that began in science and technology and took him around the...
September 04, 2015
Serving as manager of the research division and 1600 acre campus of FM Global , a commercial and industrial property insurance and risk analysis organization with offices worldwide, Lou Gritzo traces...
January 13, 2016
Innovation contests, and their bigger counterparts, grand challenges, have become increasingly popular over the past few years. This is because they offer a way to find solutions from a global...
January 01, 2010
No company or nation will remain in a leadership position without continuous innovation, strategic investment in R&D, and effective means for realizing the greatest value from discoveries and...