August 30, 2016
Business model design is critical for a startup. A successful design must be developed and tested with limited resources and under conditions of great uncertainty related to both internal and...
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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)–...
August 30, 2016
My career has been a colorful journey. In academia, I worked at the borderline between physical experiments and the early days of numerical simulation. I did some research work, earned my PhD, and...
August 30, 2016
In 2013, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned the IRI2038 foresight project to research how developments in technology, business processes, regulation and other spheres will impact...
August 30, 2016
Personal computers, smartphones, 3D printing, the World Wide Web: these world-changing inventions, and many others like them, all emerged from small cells of obsessed innovators out to change the...
August 30, 2016
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene Concerns over Bayer's Bid for Monsanto -- Antitrust Regulations and Innovation -- Humanities in the High-Tech World -- New Insights into Photonic...
August 30, 2016
As emerging markets continue to grow in both size and economic influence, innovation managers at companies around the globe increasingly turn to those markets for new ideas that could catalyze their...
August 30, 2016
According to research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute in 2011, big data "will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of growth, innovation, and consumer surplus" in the...
August 30, 2016
In the last installment of this column, I initiated a new series of topics aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to look critically at the profession's terms of art...
May 24, 2016
Orlando, FL (May 25, 2016) —Can an organization be trained to deliver innovation with discipline? In his keynote remarks this morning, Kaigham “Ken” Gabriel, President & CEO of Draper, explained...
May 24, 2016
Orlando, FL (May 24, 2016) —That today’s world is experiencing rapid, and accelerating, change is a frequently cited fact by innovation thought leaders and R&D executives. Where is all this...
August 30, 2016
When Marshall McLuhan wrote, “The medium is the message,” he meant to emphasize the implications of any new technology (or medium) beyond the specific context of its use (or content of its message)...
August 30, 2016
Servitization is recognized as an opportunity for manufacturing firms to harvest additional value by accessing new sources of revenue and expanding their reach up and down the value chain. It is a...
May 24, 2016
Orlando, FL (May 24, 2016)-- Interconnectivity defines the world of R&D in the twenty-first century. The rise of boundariless collaboration tools and open innovation practices has made it easier...
January 04, 2017
Happy New Year! This year IRI celebrates the 60th Anniversary of its award-winning journal Research-Technology Management (RTM), kicking off the year with a special issue on the state of the art of...
November 03, 2016
In consultation with the IRI membership, IRI's Knowledge Leadership Team selected the theme of strategic challenges in R&D talent management with individual projects tackling the themes listed...