June 05, 2018
The country is undergoing a rapid generational change in our workforce. Baby boomers are starting to retire, and 35% of the labor force in America is currently made up of Millennials. That number is...
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Emerging Technologies
May 14, 2018
I was invited to visit China for the first time in 1989, to speak about expert systems, then at the forefront of practical AI. At that time, technology transfer from the West to China was a one-way...
May 14, 2018
Leave it to Emmanuel Macron to rock the boat. After launching his movement to win the French presidency, the ambitious politician has floated an idea to spur innovation in Europe, one that would see...
May 14, 2018
Artificial intelligence, or AI—computers that can analyze data, make predictions, and draw conclusions in ways only humans could a few years ago—may be the most important technological development...
May 14, 2018
China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor made it the factory for the world in past decades. Today, as the country seeks to remake itself, from a maker of products created elsewhere to an...
March 08, 2018
Marco Iansiti talks with Jim Euchner about digital hubs, the platforms at the heart of them, and how to compete in emerging digital ecosystems. Marco Iansiti studies ecosystem strategy at the Harvard...
October 05, 2017
The search for emerging and impactful technologies tend to rely on some combination of patent literature, scientific literature, and/or trade literature as the basis for discovery. Each of these...
June 16, 2017
Innovation is the top reason to embark on a biologically inspired design (BID) project, according to attendees of IRI's 2017 webinar "Biologically Inspired Design for Industry: An Evolving Practice...
May 10, 2017
Express Learning Presenters share a practical approach for spotting-evaluating-integrating of emerging technologies with the focus on building reliable internal and external networks to...
March 07, 2017
As the creator and webmaster of enablingthefuture.org, Jennifer Owen has built a community around the creation of 3D-printable, open-source design files for prosthetic hands. Step 1: Logged in IRI...
January 20, 2017
Much has been made of the contribution Gutenberg’s printing press (1440) made to the spread of Martin Luther’s Theses (1517), and hence to the launch and spread of the Protestant Reformation...
March 07, 2016
Learn about IBM security and how it deals with insider threats, the dark web, and data breaches. Presented by: Shannon Tompkins Spring 2016 https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/...
December 02, 2016
As emerging markets continue to grow in both size and economic influence, innovation managers at companies around the glove increasingly turn to those markets for new ideas that could catalyze their...
November 09, 2016
OVERVIEW: The ability to innovate at speed is not a luxury for today's companies; it is a matter of survival. But in traditional corporate structures, there are seemingly countless business controls...
November 09, 2016
As the technology for virtual experimentation and simulation has matured, interest in its uses for R&D has grown. Indeed, investment in virtual experimentation and simulation in R&D is...
November 09, 2016
As Chief Technology Officer of Made in Space, Jason Dunn is developing the technology to support the next step in space exploration. I'm an explorer at heart. I grew up on the Florida Gulf Coast with...