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February 28, 2011
Sustainable Development Pillars Environmental Reduce the impact our organization has on the environment to ensure the availability of natural resources for generations to come Social Provide our...
March 01, 2016
After interviewing 40 R&D directors and senior vice presidents at large, global companies, Michaelis learned that innovation training does not happen in their companies. According to these...
May 01, 2009
Patience is a virtue, if one is willing to persevere during preparation, planning and execution (program completion). Impatience is a virtue, if one, reacting to what has been learned in the lab or...
March 01, 2008
In recognition of the authorship of “Maximizing Return on Innovation Investment,” deemed to be the best original paper published in RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT in 2006. The winning paper was...
November 01, 2008
Double-digit increases in profits during 2007 were reflected by continued strong growth in industrial R&D both in the United States and abroad. Table 1 shows that the top 100 U.S. R&D firms...
July 01, 2007
Companies that invest in research and development do so for a reason: they expect a return on the investment. This is often communicated in some form or other as a value proposition. How do we ensure...
September 01, 2006
European universities and publicly funded research organizations are being offered new tools to improve their ability to collaborate with industrial partners. The idea is to accelerate the transfer...
March 01, 2005
Firms have no choice today but to disperse their new product units in order to access dispersed knowledge and skills. As a result, there is a general movement toward “virtual” R&D teams (1). But...
May 01, 2005
Hardball innovators use technology innovation to create unassailable competitive advantage. They let no opportunity escape their attention, from betting on breakthrough technologies to managing the...
March 01, 2017
Join Our Speed Mentoring Session: Do you have a passion for helping future innovation leaders advance their careers? If so, we invite you to serve as a mentor for our first speed mentoring event to...
March 07, 2017
As the creator and webmaster of enablingthefuture.org, Jennifer Owen has built a community around the creation of 3D-printable, open-source design files for prosthetic hands. Step 1: Logged in IRI...
May 09, 2017
Breakout Most companies don’t properly understand their target customers in product development – and the results can be catastrophic. Companies who utilize customer insights adapt product...
September 01, 2005
Think about the purpose of the organization where you work. Is it to create great products for people? Is it to improve people’s lives? Solve company problems? Discover useful knowledge? Is it to...
January 01, 1985
The R&D director in the modern large corporation has a complex, multifaceted and, in some important ways, illdefined job. Among his or her priorities must be the following: Step 1: Logged in IRI...
January 01, 1982
I plead guilty to a certain amount of envy toward such companies as 3M and Texas Instruments, where entrepreneurship is a way of corporate life. It has permeated their company culture through all...