April 26, 2016
Learn how to find, evaluate, and manage scouting opportunities that build a strategic advantage for your firm. Find out what mistakes companies often make in their scouting process and discover easy...
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Alliances/Collaborations
November 01, 2008
The number of collaborative research agreements is increasing rapidly. Large high-tech companies are engaging smaller ones, Federal laboratories, universities, international firms, and competitors in...
September 01, 2008
Gridley! Gridley! Get in here; we’re in crisis mode! We need someone to develop relationships with Chinese universities pronto. Our competitors are ahead of us and if we don’t move fast, all the good...
April 01, 2008
California, the state with a long history of stimulating new science and technology, has now begun a revolution in the means of organizing the research responsible for fresh advances. The California...
March 01, 2008
In an increasingly global, networked market for R&D it is more important than ever to collaborate. In the past, intellectual property negotiations have been formidable barriers to forming...
September 01, 2009
A highly effective CREATIVE R&D culture combines C ustomer-focused, R isk-tolerant, E ntrepreneurial, A lignment with strategy, T echnology and scientific excellence, I nnovative, V irtual...
May 01, 2009
This article describes how Raytheon was able to leverage its defense products into the emerging market for homeland security that followed 9/11, and which has since grown into a global, multi-billion...
January 01, 2009
New product development that depends on technology transfer among partners is difficult. For technology intensive firms, a range of factors—from the nature of competition to an enterprise’s market...
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...
September 01, 2010
The Industry-Defined Fundamental Research program is designed to bring together industrial and academic researchers to develop basic science in areas important for the success of American industry...
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 practicesâ€...
January 01, 2009
New product development that depends on technology transfer among partners is difficult. For technology intensive firms, a range of factors—from the nature of competition to an enterprise’s market...
January 01, 2009
Successful firms have understood the superiority of customer orientation over a firm’s internal orientation ever since the promotion of the modern marketing concept by marketing gurus such as Jerome...
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...
November 01, 2010
Leaders of five working groups report on the status of their work: Sustainability in R&D; Collaboration Continuum; Business Models for Collaborative Relationships; R&D Leadership Skills/...
September 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: The Industry-Defined Fundamental Research program is designed to bring together industrial and academic researchers to develop basic science in areas important for the success of American...