February 06, 2017
Member Highlight: Keoki Jackson (CTO, Lockheed Martin), The Path to Leadership. How does one become the Chief Technology Officer of a large, leading, multinational aerospace and defense R&D...
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March 22, 2017
An overview of Praxair including the markets we serve, the technology we deploy and the values that are imperative to our culture. Presented by: John Sirman Spring 2017 https://www.pathlms.com/iri-...
August 02, 2017
Read the write-up from the discussion held at the 2017 CTO Forum among 22 senior R&D leaders who came together to explore the topic of discontinuous innovation and innovation culture. 2017 CTO...
June 05, 2018
Learn about IRI's new TRACK program and how we can help you fill in training gaps in your career. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/1171/video_presentatio...
July 12, 2018
Express Session Learn about IRI's new TRACK program and how we can help you fill in training gaps in your organization's workforce. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/1171/...
Our daily lives have been disrupted by the COVID-19 ("coronavirus") outbreak, but IRI can help. Below are a list of helpful resources to get us through this difficult time. We encourage our members...
May 01, 2015
Changing an accepted organizational culture can feel like rolling rocks uphill. It can seem impossible to escape the inertia built up over decades of accrued behavior and entrenched beliefs. Yet an...
November 01, 2013
IRI’s Research-on-Research working groups held meetings at IRI’s Diamond Jubilee in Washington, DC. Five groups report on the status of their work, describe ongoing initiatives, and summarize...
September 02, 2020
Global scientific collaboration to find a vaccine is not enough to end the pandemic. International cooperation is also necessary to produce a successful vaccine affordably and distribute it equitably...
March 01, 2012
On October 18, 2011, in the case of Oliver Bruestle v. Greenpeace , the European Court of Justice (ECJ) unanimously ruled that no invention resulting from medical research involving the destruc-tion...
August 30, 2016
When Marshall McLuhan wrote, “The medium is the message,” he meant to emphasize the implications of any new technology (or medium) beyond the specific context of its use (or content of its message)...
March 01, 2018
As Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Scott focuses on the human element. I drank a whole lot of Star Trek Kool-Aid when I was a kid; the reason I went into tech was to create technology to...
April 29, 2015
2015 Achievement Award Address: An Engineer's View of the Third Industrial Revolution Charles Hull, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, 3D Systems This talk is an engineer’s view of the third...
September 01, 2014
The pursuit of intellectual property (IP) that can be protected through patents, copyrights, and trademarks has traditionally formed the cornerstone of many companies’ strategies. The general rule of...
February 27, 2012
To demonstrate how large organizations can identify and tap into existing internal knowledge in order to accelerate innovation. Review of best practices collected at 2011 Annual Meeting working group...
July 01, 2009
In today’s competitive environment, the ability of an organization to innovate is paramount. While most organizations have fl ashes or spurts of innovation, only a handful have been able to innovate...