May 18, 2020
Welcome to Week 2 of IRI's VIRTUAL 2020 Annual Conference Campbell Soup’s Vice President of R&D, Craig Slavtcheff, will be kicking off the second week with how Campbell Soup has hardwired #Agile...
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May 20, 2014
GE's Business Model Innovation Danielle Merfeld, Technology Director Electrical Technology and Systems, GE Global Research Over GE’s 130 year history it has continued to re-invent itself to meet the...
April 13, 2020
Ed Bernstein, IRI President: IRI Members helping in the COVID-19 response PPG to Donate 80,000 Masks to Hospitals in Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Huntsville Xerox plans to mass produce...
2006 - 2009 Deliverables RTM Article , "Identify Your Innovation Enablers and Inhibitors", Nov-Dec 2008 Report Out Description Value Innovation means innovation across the entire value chain;...
September 08, 2015
Arlington, VA (September 8, 2015)— While manufacturing and service companies are often considered separate entities, manufacturing firms are increasingly moving from a product-oriented business model...
May 01, 2004
“Tom Evers,” vice president of research for the XYZ Corporation, was in a heated discussion with “Jim Taylor,” group leader of Project MZ, about Jim ’s inability to keep the project on schedule. Jim...
June 28, 2018
Atlanta, Ga. (6 June 2018)— Rolls-Royce Engineering Associate Fellow Andrew Harrison was presented with this year’s prestigious Maurice Holland Award, eponymously named in honor of the founder of...
March 01, 2019
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. —Albert Einstein (attributed) I worked in the mailing...
September 02, 2020
Businesses can benefit from university–industry collaborations, yet they rarely take full advantage of them. Scientists who serve as principal investigators (PIs) act as the nucleus of university–...
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session Corporate research collaboration with major academic centers has called for rethinking the balance between academic and corporate roles in these relationships. Discover how a leading...
May 01, 2005
Despite tough talks over money and structure, the European Commission is pushing ahead with its plans to create a European Research Council (ERC) modeled on the National Science Foundation in the...
Monday September 26, 2016 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Mark Little, former CTO, GE Global Research, and Andrea Kates, CEO, GLIDR, discuss the tools, techniques and culture changes that GE has adopted to accelerate their R&D.
Can you help with Life Cycle Analyses? We are interested in gaining expertise on Life Cycle Analyses and methodologies. Do you have any information or recommendations for training, courses,...
September 05, 2019
The globe is crisscrossed by millions of miles of roads. They cover anywhere between 0.2 and 0.5 percent of land, a portion projected to more than double by 2050. That’s becoming a problem. Roads are...
November 01, 2019
In a recent article in Nature Careers Community, Australian neuroscientist Blaine Roberts wrote of his experience when he received an offer to join an industry-academia research collaboration. Such a...
October 26, 2010
Four authors present case study of a customer-leading approach to New Product Development Chicago, IL, October 26, 2010 - The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced yesterday the winners of...