November 20, 2013
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Industrial Research Institute Announces Tech Tournament Winner Alcatel-Lucent wins IRI’s Tech Tournament, a competition to determine the most significant innovation...
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July 01, 2017
Design for service is critical to making the focus on service work at Rolls-Royce. This article describes the company’s Advanced Services Transformation Roadmap, which ensures that services are...
July 24, 2018
Satya-Nadella-Profile_1457411659.jpg As CEO of Microsoft, Nadella is steering the company through a cultural transformation designed to equip it to make the most of coming technological shifts and...
November 01, 2017
The future of open innovation will be more extensive, more collaborative, and more engaged with a wider variety of participants. It will extend beyond technology to business models, and it will...
September 08, 2015
Arlington, VA (September 8, 2015)— While manufacturing and service companies are often considered separate entities, manufacturing firms are increasingly moving from a product-oriented business model...
January 20, 2017
Consumers develop many valuable products—and reveal their unprotected designs to others—as “free innovations.” 1 1 This article offers a brief sketch of the concept and importance of free innovation...
November 01, 2017
Lockheed Martin is fostering a resilient innovation culture that embraces and addresses the wide range of relevant technologies available in the broader science and technology universe. The company’s...
October 28, 2009
Toronto, October 28, 2009 - The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced yesterday the recipients of the 2009 Holland Award at the IRI Member Summit in Toronto. The award, given to the authors...
January 01, 2012
New Rules and Roles for the R&D “Lab” of the Future In May 2007, Richard Antcliff challenged IRI members with a presentation asserting the notion that “three tsunamis” were about to break upon R...
January 20, 2017
Open innovation emerged as a concept about 14 years ago. At its inception, the focus was primarily upon individual companies collaborating with partners in interesting ways. There was the example of...
January 11, 2016
Don Norman talks with Jim Euchner about the design of useful things, from everyday objects to autonomous vehicles. View full article or download PDF http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/...
Friday May 04, 2018 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Join authors as they discuss Goodyear's experience with business experiments and gain insights into how experiments can work in a large corporation that makes physical things.
January 20, 2017
The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) has undertaken an annual survey of R&D expectations among R&D- and innovation-focused companies since 1982. This survey typically asks R&D leaders...
March 01, 2012
The Use of Strategic Foresight Methods for Ideation and Portfolio Management OVERVIEW: Previous investigations of organizations adding breakthrough innovation capacity to already strong incremental...
July 01, 2017
Leadership is an ongoing preoccupation for the innovation community. Every company wants to be a market leader, and many rely on innovation to provide that leadership. At the national level,...
May 24, 2016
Breakout Session This panel shares an overview and update of data about US STEM demand forecasts and areas of shortfalls through the year 2038 across all major STEM categories, comparisons to global...