January 01, 2014
European High-tech Industry at the Crossroads; New Research Identifies Markers of Innovation Potential; From Innovation to Manufacturing; Carnegie Mellon Teams with Health Insurance Provider to...
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May 01, 2014
As Vice President–Design at Crown Equipment Corporation, Mike Gallagher oversees a global design operation and influences the company’s strategic innovation strategy. View full article or download...
May 01, 2014
Interviews with Tom MacTavish, Anijo Mathew and Kim Erwin Three professors from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology talk with Jim Euchner about the tools of design...
May 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Traditional manufacturing companies are increasingly offering industrial services in order to secure their position in the globally competitive environment. However, little is known about...
November 01, 2014
Revolutionizing Industry the German Way; Advanced Manufacturing: Rethinking How Things Get Made; 3D Metal Printing Project Rekindles West Virginia’s Manufacturing Legacy; In Battery Technology,...
November 01, 2014
Augmented Reality: Establishing Interoperability Standards; Innovation Culture; Institutionalizing Innovation Competency through People; Managing Remotely; Pragmatic Analytics for Project Risk...
January 01, 2013
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene IRI Celebrates 75 Years of Industrial R&D Thought Leadership; Close – But Challenging – Sino-European Research Collaboration; A Fresh Twist on...
May 01, 2013
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene. China Comes Calling; Incentives Spark Solar Energy Boom for Japan; Kenya’s Fertile Ground for Tech Innovation; Europe’s Billion-Euro Brain Research...
July 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: The use of targeted focus groups early in the design process allows new-product developers to refine specific design functions and features for a new product with direct input from the...
July 01, 2013
Predicting the Progress of Technology; Reports Outline Challenges to U.S. Manufacturing Innovation; West Virginia Program Nurtures Academia/Industry Relationships; Europe Betting Big on Graphene...
September 01, 2013
Big Effort to Share Big Data; The Kendall Square Phenomenon; Considering Exchange Rate Risk in Outsourcing; Innovation for the Development World. View full article or download PDF http://www...
January 01, 2012
America Invents Act May Reinvent R&D Information Management Practices; A Single European Patent System Takes Shape; Innovating the Innovation Process; Top STEM Graduates Thinking Small. View full...
May 01, 2012
Taking Graphene from Research to Application; Supporting Advanced Manufacturing in the US; Big Apple Science Ideas Spreads to Europe; IRI names 2012 Award Winners. View full article or download PDF...
July 01, 2012
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene European Pharma R&D; New Age of Crowdfunding; Looking to Nature to Catalyze Energy R&D; Engineering Education. View full article or download...
September 01, 2012
Jean-Claude Kihn has been CTO at Goodyear Tire and Rubber since 2008. As general director of Goodyear’s Technical Center, a position he held from 2005 to 2008, he introduced lean thinking to the...
November 01, 2012
Apple Scores a Win in Smartphone Wars; America’s New Brain Drain: The Loss of Sea Turtles; The State of Sustainability; Science Still Not a “Girl Thing” in Europe. View full article or download PDF...