September 01, 2005
The R&D Limited Partnership model of organization and management, subsequently modified as the Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), has become an organization of choice for innovative new...
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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
January 01, 2019
A bibliometric study of Research-Technology Management (RTM), conducted for the 20-year period 1998–2017,examined citations, authors, industry sectors, and topics for 550 articles published during...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics The 50 metrics are listed in priority according to the ranking developed by attendees at the IRI Meeting in Williamsburg,...
Depending on particular needs of stakeholders or of decisions to be taken, different categories and factors should be examined. In addition, time periods (unit of analysis) should be adjusted for different industries, technologies and types of R&D.
What is your balance between internal and external research? What is your company's balance between internal and external research (university projects, consortiums, government labs, established...
March 01, 2014
A career in R&D is an interesting one. It offers the opportunity for continuous learning, the chance to work with interesting people, and the satisfaction of creating something new. Yet there are...
May 01, 2013
Thanks to Eric von Hippel, the existence of the user-innovator is widely acknowledged, if still not well understood by many firms. Still, some companies are engaging with user-innovators in productive...
What is your licensing royalty strategy? As you develop new technology, how do you determine what the appropriate royalty should be for customers that license it? I've considered several factors:...
May 20, 2014
Business Model Revolution or Evolution? Tony Singarayar, Founding Partner, Analogy Growth Partners, LLC A revolution isn’t pleasant. Kings are dethroned and leaders are killed. In a business model...
How do you handle raw material strategy? How do you manage and guide raw material strategy within your organization? Do you have specific tools that you use to do this? - Manager, Raw Material Group...
October 17, 2012
Speed Matters Jean-Claude Kihn, PhD, Executive VP & CTO, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Goodyear loves to race! It's been in the company's DNA for more than 100 years, and has helped teach...
Do you have a target ratio for HSE professionals? Does your organization target a certain numerical ratio of HSE professionals to site occupants? - HSE Manager, Global Petrochemical Company Community...
February 25, 2013
ROR Stage: gathering & disseminating data This ROR is investigating how firms develop innovation workforce excellence and career paths for innovation experts as a mechanism for institutionalizing...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning Learn how to leverage 3.8 billion years of research and development in the natural world in service of your toughest design challenges. Mike Dupee explains when and how biomimicry...
March 01, 2007
"Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape" by Henry Chesbrough Chesbrough follows up his first book, Open Innovation, with a second which provides more details on how to...
May 01, 2005
First, consider that over a 50-year period (and your author has been working for that time), U.S. R&D expenditures have increased from $5 billion per year to just over $300 billion. At the same...