March 01, 2006
Senior executives in every large or mid-size company in the United States and Europe routinely face questions regarding their plans and strategies for conducting a part of their R&D overseas,...
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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
July 01, 2006
Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) continue to be an important means of transferring technology. By incorporating the perspective of portfolio management, technology managers...
January 01, 2005
As growth and profit alternatives continue to erode for many companies, the importance of radical innovation as a mechanism for organization rejuvenation is increasing. Some firms are building entire...
January 01, 2005
The study of innovation management in established companies has led to the enunciation of process tools that, if not widely used, are well known and documented. These tools are necessary but not...
July 01, 2005
Achieving sustained organizational innovation has proved an almost insurmountable challenge for most firms, and is even more challenging in difficult economic times. Most firms are unprepared for...
January 20, 2017
In his writings about what he described as “the two cultures,” the novelist and civil servant C. P. Snow described what he saw as an intellectual chasm between individuals qualified in science and...
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...
January 20, 2017
Open innovation emerged as a concept about 14 years ago. At its inception, the focus was primarily upon individual companies collaborating with partners in interesting ways. There was the example of...
January 20, 2017
Consumers develop many valuable products—and reveal their unprotected designs to others—as “free innovations.” 1 1 This article offers a brief sketch of the concept and importance of free innovation...
January 20, 2017
In 1955, the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education, headed by respected educator Linton Grinter, issued a call to modernize engineering education in the United States. During World War II...
March 07, 2017
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene International negotiations on climate change. Cyber threats. Illegal testing of nuclear weapons. The emergence of a new virus that threatens human...
May 02, 2017
In 280 BC, a Greek general added fighting elephants to his ranks and won two battles against the Romans. But in doing so, he suffered terrible losses. Plutarch quotes him as saying, “If we are...
May 02, 2017
My grandfather repaired watches. When he died, he left his tools, watches, and parts to my father. At an early age, I wanted to understand how watches worked. I would tear them apart and put them...
June 29, 2017
Having a highly motivated technical workforce is one of the key ingredients for fostering the innovative performance necessary for an organization to “stay in the game” in today's global competitive...
June 29, 2017
Innovation goes beyond mere invention to mean the creative application of technologies, processes or ideas to some useful purpose. Innovation is becoming a highly valued commodity, viewed as key to...
September 01, 2005
Sustainable growth—the creation of shareholder and societal values while reducing environmental impacts along entire value chains—is not a choice but a requirement for successful businesses in the...