October 31, 2019
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January 01, 2020
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March 01, 2007
2007 is Research–Technology Management’s 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue reprints one of RTM’s six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N...
July 01, 2007
2007 is Research-Technology Manage-ment’s50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue reprints one of RTM’s six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N...
January 20, 2017
After the Great Recession of 2008, many companies chose to take less risk and invest in proven categories and products. As a result, R&D within many companies moved more resources to focus on...
July 01, 2017
Europe Looks Beyond Horizon 2020 The European Commission has opened debate on its ninth research framework program, provisionally called FP9, to replace the €80 billion ($86 billion) Horizon 2020...
March 01, 2018
In my work with MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program, executives frequently ask me how they can make their outreach to external innovators more effective. Often, I find, the reason they’re having...
September 12, 2018
Partner with IRI in 2019! Lead a session at one of our meetings, host a webinar or submit a post for our blog. Download a PDF of our 2019 Partnership Prospectus: IRI-ProspectusBrochure.pdf IRI-...
February 24, 2013
An homage to IRI's founding, marking the 75 th anniversary of the day IRI was created. http://iriwebblog.org/2013/02/25/seventy-five-years-ago-today/
March 07, 2017
Lean principles—a set of philosophies and approaches derived from Japanese management practices that focus on providing optimum value to the customer by eliminating waste and streamlining processes—...
January 01, 2002
Growth-oriented companies frequently identify attractive business development opportunities that lie in markets new to them and require new product/technology capabilities. Successfully capturing...
May 14, 2018
Artificial intelligence, or AI—computers that can analyze data, make predictions, and draw conclusions in ways only humans could a few years ago—may be the most important technological development...
March 01, 2020
Clay Christensen (1952–2020) was a giant in the field of innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma remains one of the best books on innovation that I have ever read. It is both theoretically rigorous and...
March 01, 2007
It’s easy to say that success in innovation is a key driver of future growth and profitability—but it’s not so easy to accomplish that innovation. After assessing the level of Alcan Pharmaceutical...
July 01, 2007
In today’s competitive business and technology environment, the consideration of acquiring technology from industry leaders to deliver technology-based solutions is an imperative. Although there is...
January 01, 2004
We seem to be fast approaching a bottleneck in post-genomics R&D, brought on by the difficulties inherent in the process of “target validation.” One way to speed up the tedious work of target...