July 12, 2018
Express Session Learn the top 10 takeaways from the commercialization trenches--how the BridgeCommunity program (a consortium of corporations and a select group of startups)--enables commercial...
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New Business Development
July 12, 2018
Express Session There is an inevitable gap in culture, processes, speed, and motivation between startups and corporations, so setting the right foundations for a partnership is critical to its...
May 01, 2004
Success in technology development depends increasingly on speed to profitable commercialization. This calls for a new type of technology development management. As projects move from opportunity...
July 01, 2017
Gina O’Connor and her colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management have studied breakthrough innovation inside corporations for many years. In Radical Innovation (2000...
May 10, 2017
Breakout Session Business Model Innovation requires the systematic identification of alternative business models that may be appropriate to a concept; the identification of the risks associated with...
May 10, 2017
Express Learning Our world is characterized by increasing social, technological and business disruption. Amidst this turmoil, traditional innovation processes do not have the agility required to...
May 09, 2017
Express Learning This session considers a hybrid technology incubation model for corporate R&D. The model draws on Gen5’s direct experience in seeding and developing new ventures. The goal is for...
Thursday May 18, 2017 4:00pm
Hosted by the Campbell Soup Company The Industrial Research Institute 2017 Camden Regional Meeting will explore “ Identifying New Business Opportunities †as part of a series of networking and...
March 07, 2017
Consumers are getting used to receiving free services in many different fields, and the popularity of the mobile app industry is feeding this phenomenon. Historically, advertising—a typical two-sided...
January 20, 2017
I was at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in the 1990s, a most exciting time in technology. In addition to many advances in technology and human-machine interfaces, the Internet was taking hold, web...
March 01, 2005
By providing a window on emerging technologies, market opportunities, new business models, and distribution channels, corporate venturing can be an important source of technological innovation for...
May 01, 2007
Disruptive innovations increasingly originate in private sector emerging growth firms—or gazelles, as they are commonly called. Unfortunately, managers of large corporations find it difficult to...
March 01, 2007
Modern computer gaming technologies initially provided low-end capabilities for a small niche within the simulation industry. However, over time they improved to the point where they became more...
November 09, 2016
If you open the newspaper, the world seems very dark. Violence and poverty and societal stresses seem to rule the day, and the future can look bleak. But the data tell a different story. I believe we...
November 09, 2016
This discussion is about innovation--about the conditions under which innovation and invention happen. I have a few thoughts on this, from my time at Google, DARPA, IBM, and MCI. True breakthrough...
October 18, 2016
ROR stage: gathering and analyzing data Customer demand for individually configured and customized products is on the rise across all industries. Companies are faced with the challenge of maintaining...