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...
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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...
December 10, 2019
Corporate entrepreneurship has always been an essential engine of growth and renewal, but its focus has been to drive sustaining innovations in core businesses. CEOs increasingly recognize the need...
Friday December 06, 2019 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Corporate entrepreneurship has always been an essential engine of growth and renewal, but its focus has been to drive sustaining innovations in core businesses. CEOs increasingly recognize the need...
The fraction (or percent) of the R&D budget or actual expenditure from business unit sources.
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, 2013
OVERVIEW: Current approaches to open innovation can be characterized in two general categories: open-boundary innovation and open-source innovation. Open-boundary innovation is designed to source new...
November 01, 2013
Innovation is a magical thing. It transforms dross into gold, puts nature at our command, creates something new where there was once nothing. Throughout history, magicians (and charlatans) have used...
November 01, 2013
The articles in this special issue offer a diverse collection of views on the future of innovation, but they agree on one point: the future will be different. New technologies—and old problems—are...
January 01, 2012
One of the best things about working in publishing is the fresh start. New articles, new topics, new themes to explore, six times a year . . . each issue brings a fresh set of challenges, as we work...
January 01, 2012
Prior to the introduction of the tele-graph system, information moved from one place to another at the speed of a steam locomotive, a dashing pony ex-press, or a lumbering ocean liner. Letters,...
May 01, 2012
On the night of October 9, 1604, Italian citizens recorded their astonishment that the universe had changed for the first time in centuries. As they looked to the night sky, they found a new star had...