What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...
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May 21, 2014
Creating Value Through R&D in a Long Business Cycle Alan Epstein, PhD, Vice President Technology & Environment, Pratt & Whitney While it was the most exciting industry of the early 20th...
September 01, 2009
Inside a New York City loft in 2006, two entrepreneurs are working on the software to launch a new dot.com business they call Animoto. They hope to offer a service that will allow people to turn a...
January 01, 2006
Disputes or uncertainty over patent rights can impede negotiation of a collaborative research agreement or create ill will during alliance implementation. However, prospective collaboration partners...
January 01, 2002
Growth-oriented companies frequently identify attractive business development opportunities that lie in markets new to them and require new product/technology capabilities. Successfully capturing...
March 01, 2020
Clay Christensen (1952–2020) was a giant in the field of innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma remains one of the best books on innovation that I have ever read. It is both theoretically rigorous and...
Thursday November 19, 2020 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Meet high potential startups commercializing technologies of interest to members of the Innovation Research Interchange.
The TVP 2.1 tool is a resource for members of the Industrial Research Institute. Member log-in is required. Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics Information for...
Financial Return New sales ratio Cost savings ratio R&D yield R&D return Projected Value of the R&D Pipeline Projected sales Projected income Number of Ways Technology is Exploited...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics gate_a1.gif Metrics which can be used to make good decisions at this gate Strategic alignment Financial return New sales...
A collection of metrics which communicate the total R&D program and which allow optimization of the total R&D program for the corporation's benefit.
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics process stage 3.gif Metrics assessing the efficiency of the Stage III processes Cycle time Market cycle time Project...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics process stage 4.gif Metrics assessing the efficiency of the Stage IV process Quality of personnel Internal customer rating...
January 01, 2015
In his famous diaries, Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century London author, described his daily repast: Each morning he would break his fast with a pint of beer or ale. At mid-day, he would lunch on meat,...
July 01, 2014
Innovation has become a cornerstone of all growing businesses. We innovate on product, packaging, delivery, service, color, scent, “mouth feel,” and every other feature a potential customer can...
November 01, 2014
In the past three decades, I’ve had a chance to work with some amazing companies struggling to defi ne, or redefine, their innovation strategies. Far too often, sustainable change has proven diffi cult...