January 01, 2013
As this issue of RTM arrives in your mail-box, IRI—our publisher—enters its 75th year. It does so at what John Seely Brown would call a Cambrian moment for innovation, an era of explosive change with...
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What are your top tips for technology scouting? Israel Chemicals Ltd. ( www.ICL-group.com ) has recently setup an incubator ( www.icl-innovation.com ) with the objective of attracting innovative...
March 01, 2012
As we’ve struggled to navigate the Great Recession, innovation has become a central concern. Politicians and economists both suggest that the only way out of the current bleak outlook is to innovate...
July 01, 2012
It may seem odd to do a retrospective issue on a subject whose arrival on the scene is as recent as open innovation, but since the concept was first named and studied by Henry Chesbrough, it has taken...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Forget Linux, Netflix, DARPA, and the X Prizes. Deliberate, managed open innovation goes back 300 years. At that time the determination of longitude at sea was both vitally important and...
May 01, 2011
The term “research and development” didn’t enter the vocabulary until the mid-twentieth century, although forward-thinking companies had been collaborating with gifted scientists for at least a...
July 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Although there are several studies highlighting the best new-product development (NPD) practices of Western firms, we know very little about the NPD practices of Chinese firms...
July 01, 2011
Culture matters. From marketing to manufacturing, culture shapes every aspect of business; corporate culture and its discontents are the topic of any number of studies, and countless consultant...
November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: The sheer scale of unprecedented worldwide economic and societal change will inevitably lead to a multipolar world. Never before have we witnessed so many developing economies growing...
November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: In 2001, Corning faced a near-death experience. Growth had halted and revenues had plummeted. But Corning survived, and today it is thriving. The strength Corning built in facing that...
October 14, 2014
Reinventing Supplier Innovation Relationships ROR Stage: Completed data collection, analyzing data This ROR seeks to explore how IRI firms structure supplier relationships to: Identify enabling...
November 20, 2013
Reinventing Supplier Innovation Relationships ROR Stage: gathering & analyzing data This ROR seeks to explore how IRI firms structure supplier relationships to: • Identify enabling supplier...
October 16, 2012
Sustainability Driven Innovation Miles P. Drake, PhD, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Chief Technology Officer, Weyerhaeuser Company Mohammed A. Zaidi, PhD, Executive VP, R&D,...
October 17, 2012
Putting Technology and Marketing in the Driver's Seat of Innovation Gregory W. Nelson, PhD, Senior VP and CTO, Eastman Chemical Company Like championship race cars, winning world-class innovation...
October 17, 2012
Accelerating Conventional Innovation Stage: gathering and disseminating information Thirty-two years have passed since Stage Gate® has transformed innovation. Faster innovation is accomplished when...
May 09, 2012
Meeting Tomorrow's Energy Demands F. E. (Emil) Jacobs, Vice President Research and Development, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company For more than 150 years, technological innovation has been...