September 15, 2015
Purpose • To periodically test employees exposed to potentially hazardous materials or other risks in the workplace in an attempt to uncover early signs of work-related illness. • Occupational Safety...
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March 05, 2014
The Project: The ability to assemble effective virtual teams is essential in today’s global business environment. More than two-thirds of business professionals engage in virtual work. We explored...
September 01, 2009
Hsinchu Science Park (HSP) is Taiwan’s high-tech center. Its 400 technology companies accounted for 10% of Taiwan’s gross domestic product in 2007 when we undertook this study of the education and...
November 01, 2008
Double-digit increases in profits during 2007 were reflected by continued strong growth in industrial R&D both in the United States and abroad. Table 1 shows that the top 100 U.S. R&D firms...
November 01, 2007
As governments wrestle over safeguarding intellectual property rights in China with no solution in sight, more and more companies are taking the problem into their own hands. Step 1: Logged in IRI...
September 01, 2006
European universities and publicly funded research organizations are being offered new tools to improve their ability to collaborate with industrial partners. The idea is to accelerate the transfer...
March 01, 2005
Firms have no choice today but to disperse their new product units in order to access dispersed knowledge and skills. As a result, there is a general movement toward “virtual” R&D teams (1). But...
March 22, 2017
This case study review the Secure Enclave project at IBM Research, which was launched in 2016. The secure enclave prototype hosting environment is focused on; addressing the limitations of the...
January 01, 1985
The R&D director in the modern large corporation has a complex, multifaceted and, in some important ways, illdefined job. Among his or her priorities must be the following: Step 1: Logged in IRI...
January 01, 1982
I plead guilty to a certain amount of envy toward such companies as 3M and Texas Instruments, where entrepreneurship is a way of corporate life. It has permeated their company culture through all...
November 05, 2018
Learn about artificial intelligence and intelligent systems with our learning modules: Module 0: SPRING Program Overview Module 1: Foresighting--A Basic Introduction Module 2: Introduction to...
September 05, 2019
Once the leadership team does the hard work of convincing an organization to look beyond its operational environment, the first question is often how far into the future the organization should...
October 22, 2019
The panelists below will each present on their listed topic for 20 minutes. This will be followed by 10 minutes for Q&A. Raj Govindaraj, Rockwell Automation; Title: Digital Transformation and The...
January 13, 2020
An IRI member who works at a large industrial corporation is seeking to institute a formalized mentorship program. While it currently has a formalized development program, it is seeking information...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4In this article we frame the concept of a hardware-rich open source ecosystem (H-ROSE) that generates software and hardware components. In an H-ROSE, the designs of some...
May 21, 2014
Creating Value Through R&D in a Long Business Cycle Alan Epstein, PhD, Vice President Technology & Environment, Pratt & Whitney While it was the most exciting industry of the early 20th...