Either the quantity (number or value) of projects transferred to the manufacturing arena, or the quality of the technology transfer process according to a subjective scale.
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May 17, 2005
Leader of Research Division is 60th Recipient of Prestigious Industry Award Arlington, VA – May 17, 2005 - The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announces today that it awarded the 2005 Industrial...
May 06, 2007
Procter & Gamble Senior Executive Receives 2007 National IRI Medal Senior VP Named for Oral Health, Fabric and Home Care R&D Innovations with Global Impact Rancho Mirage, CA - For his role in...
January 01, 2015
Adrian Slywotzky talks with Jim Euchner about profit models and what it takes to create a good business design. Adrian Slywotzky has been studying what makes great business designs for years. His...
January 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Drawing on a case study at Ubisoft, a major creative firm in the videogame industry, this article shows how a firm can nurture and engage with its knowing communities to fuel the front end...
January 01, 2015
We are, as a culture, obsessed with innovation—as a national characteristic, as an economic engine, as a certain guarantor of national and corporate leadership—if we can only find the formula to...
January 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Product development at manufacturing companies is increasingly complex. Linear product development processes, including the traditional Stage-Gate process, cannot support the iterative...
March 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Leaders at incumbent firms increasingly recognize that in order to sustain growth and protect their companies from disruption, they must innovate “outside the core”—beyond the familiar...
July 01, 2015
Overview: Accessing deep customer insights is crucial to creating radical new products, services, and business models. The Swedish company Mölnlycke Health Care has focused on generating customer...
July 01, 2015
Barry Jaruzelski talks with James Euchner about the factors that really do matter in building a growth company. Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) has conducted studies of the effectiveness...
September 01, 2015
Global competition is driving manufacturing companies to generate greater value by offering innovative services. Companies such as Ericsson, IBM, and GE are increasingly selling total solutions...
September 01, 2015
The term servitization has been used in recent years to describe a growing service orientation among product manufacturers, who are increasingly moving from simply selling products to offering...
May 01, 2014
I remember the first time I stumbled into the importance of design in innovation. I was working on an expert system to de sign cements for oil wells—a complex task requiring knowledge of cements,...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: This article addresses one of the many unexplored challenges associated with closing open innovation—the intellectual property (IP) disassembly problem. This is the problem of disentangling...