January 01, 2015
Adrian Slywotzky talks with Jim Euchner about profit models and what it takes to create a good business design. Adrian Slywotzky has been studying what makes great business designs for years. His...
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April 06, 2017
This multisociety letter regarding Fiscal Year 2017-2018 R&D budget was sent on behalf of 286 organizations to both House and Senate leadership and Appropriation Chairs and Subcommittee chairs on April 6, 2017.
October 18, 2016
Research on Agile/Stage-Gate Hybrid Processes Wins 2016 Maurice Holland Award Award-winning article looks at new product development processes at manufacturing firms Chicago, IL (October 18, 2016)–...
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...
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...
March 01, 2011
It is the distinct role of senior management to manage the risk of innovation—to decide when to make the big bets and how to make the little bets that create options for the future. Nevertheless, it...
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...
April 28, 2015
Panel Discussion: Democratizing Innovation Jim Euchner, VP Global Innovation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Jonathan Kuniholm, President, Open Prosthetics Project Diego Tamburini, Manufacturing...
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...
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
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...
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 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...
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 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 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...