January 01, 2013
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene IRI Celebrates 75 Years of Industrial R&D Thought Leadership; Close – But Challenging – Sino-European Research Collaboration; A Fresh Twist on...
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May 01, 2012
Taking Graphene from Research to Application; Supporting Advanced Manufacturing in the US; Big Apple Science Ideas Spreads to Europe; IRI names 2012 Award Winners. View full article or download PDF...
September 17, 2017
Edward Tse talks with Jim Euchner about China’s rising entrepreneurialism and how multinationals can succeed in China. Step 1: Logged in IRI Members click here fo r credential verification (only...
October 08, 2017
Why are eco-design tools typically only brought into the new product development life cycle when another design already exists and needs to be improved? Thomas Marting, this year's Maurice Holland...
August 02, 2018
Jim Redden interviews Dr. Brian Sadler , a U.S. Army Research Laboratory elected Fellow, who specializes in intelligent systems. As a senior research scientist, Sadler helped to develop a "20...
July 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Radical innovation is an engine of growth, but identifying likely opportunities can be challenging. Building on previous work, this paper explores the use and importance of nine strategies...
January 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Many companies use some form of idea-to-launch process with staged gates for their new product development (NPD). This article reports the development of a governance framework for...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: This article addresses one of the many unexplored challenges associated with closing open innovation—the intellectual property (IP) disassembly problem. This is the problem of disentangling...
May 01, 2012
Roger Martin has been studying what it takes to create breakthrough innovation for many years. In that time, he has become frustrated by the increasingly heavy reliance on analytics in most...
November 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: For over 25 years, research on innovation has taken the perspective that new product development can be managed like any other (complex) process. In sharp contrast to this process view, we...
September 01, 2008
Portfolio planning involves five basic tasks: identifying current as well as future gaps in the portfolio relative to the firm's overall business strategy, striking a balance between strengthening...
January 04, 2018
I have always been intrigued by the notion of forest succession. Following the burnout of a forest, the trees that grow are not (at first) the ones that were burned. The soil and the light are not...
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1I have always been intrigued by the notion of forest succession. Following the burnout of a forest, the trees that grow are not (at first) the ones that were burned. The soil and the light are not...
July 01, 2015
Managers tend to pick a strategy that is least likely to fail rather than picking a strategy that is most efficient. The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.” This...
September 01, 2015
Delivering service innovation that delights customers is a difficult task. For product-focused companies, even imagining a potential service innovation is difficult. And what is perhaps most...
March 01, 2014
An increasing number of manufacturing firms have made the transition from a product-oriented business model to one led by advanced services, a process Tim Baines calls “servitization”. In this...