March 01, 2013
A number of recent studies ( Brown 2011 ; Murray 2011 ; Kobb and Bernstein 2012 ) suggest that sustainability is gaining momentum as a central business concern. The number of company sustainability...
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September 01, 2012
Today, land-grant universities such as Penn State are called upon to be engines for national and regional innovation. To fulfill that mission, these universities need all innovation avenues to be wide...
January 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Evidence from academic studies and national-level policy reports suggests that university industry relationships are now widely practiced in many countries and increasing in importance...
January 01, 2011
Dealing with the Chinese Dragon Second of a two-part series After more than two decades providing cheap labor to fuel the world’s manufacturing processes, the Chinese government has begun a campaign...
May 01, 2011
The Internet continues to create titanic shifts in everything from business models to geopolitics. It affects how companies innovate, how managers manage, and how businesses operate. Vint Cerf is one...
The fraction (or percent) of the R&D budget or actual expenditure from business unit sources.
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)...
November 01, 2007
Reinventing Project Management is important to R&D/technology managers but not because it actually reinvents project management. In fact, it really doesn’t even really address how to manage...
March 01, 2019
Blockchain is taking over the tech world, all but replacing the Internet of Things as the latest buzzword. Blockchain evangelists predict that it will be the Internet in 10 years, while science...
May 01, 2020
Project managers want to make better decisions, especially regarding impactful projects like new product development projects that require significant resource commitments to resolve technical...
November 01, 2013
Thoughts about Creating Jobs by Creating New Industries I would like to talk about the subject of managing research (which the members of IRI are all in the business of doing) but from a somewhat...
Measures of the degree to which a formal decision process is applied at project decision gates, and the effectiveness of the decision process itself.
March 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: We surveyed 125 large firms in Europe and the United States with annual sales in excess of $250 million to examine the extent to which large firms are now practicing open innovation. Our...
May 01, 2010
Innovation strategy helps a company in three ways: exciting its customers, outperforming competitors, and building a new product portfolio. The literature describes many frameworks for innovation...
November 01, 2010
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is revolutionizing the passenger travel experience with radical innovations in the airplane interior. These innovations are the direct result of an unprecedented focus on...
January 01, 2008
The marketplace continues to provide plenty of mixed signals to U.S. businesses: higher energy prices, uncertainties related to housing and interest rates, and a weak dollar. There are also many...