November 01, 2007
Reinventing Project Management is important to R&D/technology managers but not because it actually reinvents project management. In fact, it really doesn’t even really address how to manage...
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August 30, 2016
Personal computers, smartphones, 3D printing, the World Wide Web: these world-changing inventions, and many others like them, all emerged from small cells of obsessed innovators out to change the...
January 01, 2019
Recycling Carbon Dioxide to Address Climate Change Even as the Paris climate accords were signed in 2015, climate scientists warned that just eliminating further addition of CO2 to the atmosphere...
How do you handle IP when collaborating with universities? How do organizations work through the complexities of IP ownership when collaborating with universities in an open innovation environment?...
March 01, 2020
Innovation is always an act of creativity and insight. Isn’t it? The prevalent stereotype for innovative thinking is that of a creative and often iconoclastic individual who can recognize an...
November 01, 2006
“How does the level of business innovation investment really impact company growth and performance? ”This question was put to an Industrial Research Institute panel for discussion at its annual...
January 20, 2017
The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) has undertaken an annual survey of R&D expectations among R&D- and innovation-focused companies since 1982. This survey typically asks R&D leaders...
November 09, 2016
As Chief Technology Officer of Made in Space, Jason Dunn is developing the technology to support the next step in space exploration. I'm an explorer at heart. I grew up on the Florida Gulf Coast with...
What are your leading safety metrics? We are the process of taking a critical look at our leading safety metrics (predictive injury metrics) and have narrowed down the list with strongest correlation...
December 08, 2020
Research-Technology Management welcomes articles that explore factors shaping the R&D and innovation workforces. The pandemic is accelerating many trends that were already in progress (for...
May 24, 2016
The Big Data project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. Their goal is to answer the following research questions: How will Big...
August 31, 2020
Anti-covid-19 medicines are being approved too easily What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common? All have been approved...
January 01, 2020
Rita McGrath has studied innovation, competitive advantage, and how companies can best respond to rapid shifts in the competitive landscape. A major challenge for companies anticipating disruption is...
March 07, 2017
This column is the latest in a series of discussions aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession’s terms of art, exploring their origins and...
When is a new product considered 'commercial'? How do people decide when a new product is "commercial"? I am looking for a short definition that the project team can use to guide their decision. -...
November 09, 2016
This column is the latest in a series of topics aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession's terms of art, exploring their origins and map-ping...