November 09, 2016
IRI's Research working groups held meetings at IRI's Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, in May. Two groups report on the status of their work, describe ongoing initiatives, and summarize preliminary...
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How does your company reward people who are granted patents? We are trying to harmonize the various practices across our company for rewarding people who receive patents and would like to benchmark...
May 01, 2019
The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in real trouble. —...
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...
June 05, 2018
The country is undergoing a rapid generational change in our workforce. Baby boomers are starting to retire, and 35% of the labor force in America is currently made up of Millennials. That number is...
July 12, 2018
The country is undergoing a rapid generational change in our workforce. Baby boomers are starting to retire, and 35% of the labor force in America is currently made up of Millennials. That number is...
May 13, 2020
Starting in 2007, John Deere transformed from a single corporate R&D center NA to a global network of technology innovation centers supporting innovation and capability-building in each of the...
June 21, 2020
Our world is fast-changing, and has big problems that call for international collaborative solutions. Startups have the ideas and grit needed to solve these problems, but lack the resources or...
November 01, 2010
Peter Grubstein is Executive Managing Director at NGEN Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in the “cleantech” sector. At IRI’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Peter spoke about the role of venture...
November 01, 2010
Peter Grubstein is Executive Managing Director at NGEN Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in the “cleantech” sector. At IRI’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Peter spoke about the role of venture...
October 06, 2006
Arlington, VA - October 6 - Honored for his industry-leading innovations, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced today that the recipient of IRI's coveted 2006 Achievement Award is Paul D...
May 24, 2016
Breakout Session Individual firms and other organizations derive useful insight from understanding technology megatrends to inform a variety of strategic and tactical decisions across the innovation...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning Transformation is everywhere. Driven by technological, individual and societal forces transformation creates uncertainty. What are the ultimate causes of transformation taking place...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session We can view innovation like a blindfolded bow hunter, with an endless supply of ideas in his quiver that he hurls in random directions hoping to strike game. Or, we could determine...
May 24, 2016
The Virtual Experimentation and Simulation project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. They are working to answer the following...
January 23, 2018
New Business Development Network Spring 2018 Networks Conference March 5-7, 2017 Brown Palace Hotel & Spa 321 17 th Street, Denver, CO 80202 Monday, March 5 7:30 am – 8:00 am Brown Palace Club...