October 15, 2020
Tapping External Technology can be an effective way of supplementing an organization’s internal R&D activity and accelerating its new product development efforts. For companies and organizations...
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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.
January 11, 2021
The guiding principle for IRI in 2021, we will be operating as a virtual organization. We will deliver exceptional value, including networking, research, and content development and distribution...
January 18, 2021
ROR Member Update Takeover 50 years of Research on Research In 2021, IRI’s flagship research program, Research on Research (ROR), turns 50. To commemorate 50 years of outstanding research in the...
Wednesday April 21, 2021 1:00pm – 5:00pm
This course is designed to teach best practices for creating and managing an effective External Technology program that involves interactions with other companies, universities, federal laboratories...
How do you handle unsolicited ideas from external sources? While using Open Innovation as a way of bringing in new ideas from the outside world, what is your company IP policy for unsolicited ideas...
October 16, 2020
CIOs Feel Squeezed Between the Need to Accelerate Digital Transformation Software intelligence company Dynatrace, announced the findings of an independent global survey of 700 CIOs revealing IT...
March 17, 2015
Centralized External Technology Function: Pros & Cons Presenter: Joe Fox (Ashland, Inc.) https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation... Spring 2015
Looking forward to next year (and who isn’t), the guiding principle for IRI in 2021 will be that we are a virtual organization. We will deliver exceptional value, including networking, research, and...
Sign up for upcoming online workshops FEBRUARY 17 Conducting Business Experiments MARCH 17 Business Model Innovation APRIL 21 Identifying & Sourcing External Technology for Innovation MAY 21...
The TVP 2.1 tool is a resource for members of the Industrial Research Institute. Member log-in is required. Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics Information for...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: Even large firms cannot mobilize all the ideas, technology, business expertise, and market channels they need to deliver breakthrough products. A new model is rapidly emerging in which...
January 01, 2009
Even large firms cannot mobilize all the ideas, technology, business expertise, and market channels they need to deliver breakthrough products. A new model is rapidly emerging in which firms...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Description The state of creativity and innovation within an organization measured via an interval rating scale...
The Reprint Collection includes the best papers published in RTM. The articles chosen in these special collections were selected to give you a better perspective on managing technological innovation...
May 01, 2006
In the increasingly competitive landscape, there is a growing demand for companies to be innovative. However, the concept of innovation is confounded by the central question of what makes a product...
November 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: IRI firms constantly strive to improve their innovative capacity. Accessing external innovation is a central theme of this activity. While much has been made of accessing technology from...