(Develop guidelines to assist the R&D manager in effectively integrating computers into their operations) Computers were beginning to play an important role for industrial R&D in the early...
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October 15, 2014
Innovation Culture ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. This working group hypothesizes...
May 24, 2016
Express Learning Being on the forefront of technology trends is exciting and requires timely decision-making to end each program with a successful outcome. Defining success for your organization is...
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...
January 11, 2016
@RTM_Journal ARLINGTON, VA (January 11, 2016 )— The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced at the start of January that its journal, Research-Technology Management (RTM) , has entered into a...
As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
May 09, 2017
Express Learning IRI’s Research platform is a leader in Open Innovation (OI) research. Research on Research (ROR) has conducted 15 Open Innovation projects. Many projects have identified tools and...
August 03, 2020
Innovating during a global crisis: Join us for three webinars this month. Next week Christian Crews will talk about what the Coronavirus Pandemic can teach us about R&D foresighting. Join us on...
January 05, 2016
Global R&D Investments Trending Upward ARLINGTON, VA (January 5, 2016) —A partnership between the Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI ) Research-Technology Management (RTM) journal and R&D...
Purpose & Scope The Innovation Manager will: Provide corporate innovation and growth leadership through strong innovation management in alignment with overall business front end strategies...
March 01, 2008
In an increasingly global, networked market for R&D it is more important than ever to collaborate. In the past, intellectual property negotiations have been formidable barriers to forming...
Wednesday September 30, 2020 1:00pm – 5:00pm
The IRI Virtual i101 course is designed to provide an introduction to topics of managing corporate innovation. In it, the participants will learn both the essential tools for managing innovation and...
What is Your Experience with Open Innovation Firms? What has been your experience (positive or negative) using Open Innovation firms (i.e.: Innocentive, Nine Sigma, Yet2.com; others) to communicate...
How do you handle IP when collaborating with universities? How do organizations work through the complexities of IP ownership when collaborating with universities in an open innovation environment?...
External or internal customer evaluation of the capabilities and output of the R&D function or the innovation process.
January 01, 2015
R&D carried out by Oshkosh Corporation, a company that designs and builds specialty trucks and truck bodies, provides more bang for the buck than that performed by Google, Netflix, and other...