September 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: Open innovation (OI) has become a mainstream organizational process. Firms are establishing OI groups, allocating budgets, and measuring results. In this article, we identify twelve “good...
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September 01, 2010
Open innovation (OI) has become a mainstream organizational process. Firms are establishing OI groups, allocating budgets, and measuring results. In this article, we identify twelve “good practices”...
March 01, 2009
As a research/technology manager, you are being challenged to lead technical professionals to achieve significant innovation. That’s not the same as being a manager or an expert. In this Human Side...
May 01, 2009
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy graph structures that represent causal reasoning. This article proposes a means of building and using such maps to support the managers as well as analysts of R&D...
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...
July 01, 2007
In my previous “Human Side” column, I proposed basic research/technology leadership training under the headings of four Ps: Purpose, Process, People, Presentation (1). I asked readers to let me know...
November 01, 2007
As a long-time industrial researcher now turned academic, I believe that the careers of industrial researchers in nearly all areas of science and technology would benefit significantly from formal...
March 01, 2006
Managers of incremental innovation know that any product possesses four Ps: product (incremental), price, place, and promotion. But any manager of radical innovation should also know that there is...
May 01, 2006
If you’ve felt confused about how you should deal with diversity in your laboratories, that’s understandable, since there are at least three possible meanings of the term, and they each call for...
January 01, 2005
Public–private partnerships play a key role in helping the United States advance its research portfolio by bringing new ideas to meet the needs of the marketplace and the nation. They do so by...
January 01, 2005
A recent movie, The Corporation, presents a diagnosis of corporations as though they were psychopathic individuals. The filmmakers cite the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,...
May 01, 2005
Despite tough talks over money and structure, the European Commission is pushing ahead with its plans to create a European Research Council (ERC) modeled on the National Science Foundation in the...
March 01, 2004
The disappearance of so many corporate names over the last two decades has been both unfortunate and unnecessary. A primary cause has been the rigidity of conventional forms of organization and...
May 01, 2004
Industry, Government Leaders Confront World's Innovation Needs Science policy—the ordered management of research—remains as hard to define as “industrial policy.” But research ministers and industry...
January 04, 2018
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene MaryAnne M. Gobble From the Editor...
March 01, 1991
In June, 1990 the W all Street Journal presented a very flattering—and accurate—picture of the efforts of the GE R&D Center to, as it put it, “move ideas from lab to market.” The reporter summed...