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...
January 01, 2010
The fourth quarter of 2008 saw the start of the worst global recession since the 1930s. Yet, after dealing with the initial shock, companies went to work to prepare for the inevitable recovery...
March 01, 2010
Only a few companies have mastered the design-driven approach to innovation. This paper examines what it means to make design a central part of the business process, able to add value to products and...
September 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: Product and business innovation are integral to corporate growth. Insights into improving the design and development process can help achieve better innovation outcomes. We report the...
September 01, 2010
Product and business innovation are integral to corporate growth. Insights into improving the design and development process can help achieve better innovation outcomes. We report the findings of a...
July 01, 2009
Many companies do not learn from their new product mistakes. Consequently, the mistakes are repeated, wasting millions, even billions, of R&D and marketing dollars every year. Product development...
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...
April 01, 2008
In 1856, William Henry Perkin was an 18-year-old student at Britain’s Royal College of Chemistry. He was working toward an antimalarial drug that was important to the British empire as it expanded...
July 01, 2008
Change midstream in a product development project often means cost and budget overruns, schedule delays and product defects. Understandably, managers dislike change and have installed systems, such...
July 01, 2008
The lesson from this research into covert research—also known as “bootlegging”—is clear: do not even try to organize the early stages of innovation through formal processes. Interviews at 70 European...
November 01, 2008
Sophisticated portfolio management tools have been developed and implemented to maximize the value of existing projects in the later phases of drug development. However, the almost equally cost-...
June 27, 2016
Biomimicry, defined as innovation through the emulation of biological forms, processes, patterns, and systems, is particularly valuable for its focus on solution discovery, as opposed to solution...