May 05, 2017
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) From the Editor Where Do You LIve? James Eucher Feature Article Leveraging Lean Principles in R&D...
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May 01, 1984
The sudden popularity of technology transfer as a problem to be solved makes me feel a little like the protagonist in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilbomme. Upon acquiring an education late in life, he...
May 14, 2018
China has become one of the most desired locations in which to do R&D. However, it has little innovation of its own, and intellectual property protection is weak. This raises questions: Is China...
July 01, 2018
An innovative culture is one in which radically new things can happen with some consistency. That culture is rare, and it requires nurturing. Like the seeds in Luke’s version of the parable of the...
May 01, 2019
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives The Growing German-Chinese Tech Divide Peter Gwynne Autonomous Trucks Creating New Freight...
January 01, 2020
Overview: This paper describes mobile market research applications (MMRAs), new Voice of the Customer (VoC) tools that take advantage of the ubiquity of smartphones. MMRAs provide an efficient and...
March 01, 2020
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives Robots and AI Take on Dirty Jobs Manny Frishberg Europe's Great Digital Gap John Blau The...
May 01, 2020
As a corporate artist, Steve Harrold provides visual creations and contexts for Boeing. When I graduated high school in 1960, I wanted to be an illustrator. But I was hired at an IBM manufacturing...
January 01, 2014
I graduated from Imperial College with a degree in physics in 1975, then did a joint research program between Imperial College and the National Physics Laboratory in the UK until 1978. What took me...
May 01, 2013
Eric von Hippel has been studying innovation by users for over 30 years. His book The Sources of Innovation (1994) documented the degree to which users were responsible for functionally novel...
March 01, 2011
It is the distinct role of senior management to manage the risk of innovation—to decide when to make the big bets and how to make the little bets that create options for the future. Nevertheless, it...
May 07, 2012
Early Identification of Disruptive Technologies This group is exploring if a process exists that is good at identifying disruptive technologies before they happen. The project objectives are to...
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...
February 27, 2012
Can we identify disruptive technologies before they happen and how? • Discussions on what is “disruptive” & align on it • Discussion about EDIT “questionnaire” & review of interview data, if...
February 28, 2011
Sustainable Development Pillars Environmental Reduce the impact our organization has on the environment to ensure the availability of natural resources for generations to come Social Provide our...
November 01, 2010
Views and News of the Current Research-Technology Management Scene Building R&D Capability: China’s Cultural Evolution (First of a two-part series). Also: Silicon Valley With Snow?; By-Product...