Tuesday January 02, 2018
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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...
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July 01, 2018
An innovative culture is one in which radically new things can happen with some consistency. That culture is rare, and it requires nurturing. Like the seeds in Luke’s version of the parable of the...
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 27, 2018
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April 06, 2017
This multisociety letter regarding Fiscal Year 2017-2018 R&D budget was sent on behalf of 286 organizations to both House and Senate leadership and Appropriation Chairs and Subcommittee chairs on April 6, 2017.
May 24, 2016
Express Learning Using theories and laws around exponential growth in science and technology, attendees learn a new approach to identifying innovative opportunities. Explore some emerging...
March 01, 2019
The next frontier in agriculture may well be indoors. Advances in crop science and energy technologies, against the backdrop of climate change and population growth, have spurred innovations in...
Thursday August 13, 2020 11:00am
Agility is a required trait for startups who are constantly navigating uncertainty. And, recent tectonic shifts have escalated uncertainty to a new levels — not just for startups but for established...
How do you organize R&D? The CTO from Procter & Gamble, Bruce Brown, gave an excellent presentation on "Why Innovation Matters: Mastering a Reliable, Repeatable Process" as the opening...
March 01, 2008
Corporate venturing (CV) is a widely accepted mechanism for incubating and developing new business within large established firms. Substantial research has been done on this subject, yet any firms...
April 01, 2015
FPInnovations is one of the largest, private, non-profit forest research centers in the world and an IRI member since 2013. FPInnovations is a catalyst for the forest industry, bringing together...
June 03, 2016
Finding opportunities for growth is essential but it’s also incredibly challenging. Traditional methods of filling the innovation pipeline - from internal brainstorming to segment-by-segment market...
How do you spot the BIG opportunities? What operating rhythm, processes, & metrics do you employ to preferentially identify, generate, AND screen BIG new opportunities in the early stages of the...
November 01, 2018
In the nine years between 2003 and 2012, the world’s total energy consumption doubled. Even with renewables like wind energy and solar power growing at record rates, the percentage of the global...
Do you have a standardized way of naming projects? We would like to have a standardized way to name projects that we are working on in R&D. Today, a project can begin with a name that is given...
November 01, 2011
IRI’s 2011 Annual Meeting focused on “navigating the new normal.” Of course, a fair amount of discussion was given to defining that new normal—where are we, exactly, after the economic cataclysms of...