May 14, 2018
Since our original article appeared in Research-Technology Management in 2007, just slightly more than 10 years have passed—the equivalent to three generations of change in R&D management in...
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July 13, 2018
Breakout Session Clayton Christianson’s research indicates that 76% of all corporate innovation projects are either scuttled or rescinded, never making it out the door. Joe contends that the single...
July 01, 2018
Many organizations have become enamored with design thinking. As breakthrough innovation becomes the default mode for corporate growth, design thinking offers a structured methodology for generating...
November 01, 2018
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is well known for its success driving scientific and engineering progress. Its mission has not changed from its founding nearly 70 years ago, but with its most...
November 01, 2018
Servitization is the process by which manufacturers transition to building revenue streams through services rather than solely through the sale of products. The development of new services offerings...
March 01, 2019
Since 1984, the Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) has surveyed R&D and innovation leaders about their actual activity and R&D budgets for the past year and their expectations and...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Close to 85 percent of the world’s energy comes from burning fossil fuels. Hydrogen could theoretically replace it all. But even though hydrogen has been touted as an alternative to fossil...
April 30, 2019
Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. Digital disruption is...
Initiated: Summer 2019 Expected completion: Spring 2021 Quick pitch To learn more, contact Lee Green. Value proposition Working with a team from Babson College, member participants in this project...
November 01, 2019
My journey to science started when I was six years old and my brother was born with Down’s syndrome. At that time no one—physicians or parents—could even begin to explain what happened when a baby...
January 01, 2020
In the decade and a half since researchers pulled the first atom-thick flake from a graphite block with transparent plastic tape, graphene’s remarkable properties, and those of its rolled-up cousin,...
January 01, 2020
Since 1984, the Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) has surveyed R&D and innovation leaders about their actual activity and R&D budgets for the past year and their expectations and...
January 01, 2020
Overview: This paper describes mobile market research applications (MMRAs), new Voice of the Customer (VoC) tools that take advantage of the ubiquity of smartphones. MMRAs provide an efficient and...
March 01, 2020
We humans, it seems, like to leave a messy trail wherever we go—whether it’s our oceans, our cities, and, yes, even our outer space. Several hundred Plastic bottles and other plastic pollution covers...
June 20, 2020
The panel will present insights from academia and industry to share experiences into the effective management of global R&D with a focus on identifying the critical strategic, organizational, and...
Thursday October 19, 2017 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Explore best practices, challenges, and trends in Identifying New Business Opportunities. Topics include Business Model Innovation, OI Unhinged, and more.