November 20, 2013
Backcasting Workshop Results: San Jose & Globally – Session 1 Dr. Ted Farrington, Senior Consultant, AndSpace Consulting Mr. Christian Crews, Principal, AndSpace Consulting Results from each of...
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November 20, 2013
IRI2038 Futures Project Report Out: Envisioning the Future of Research and Technology Management Dr. Ted Farrington, Senior Consultant, AndSpace Consulting IRI 2038 is an IRI commissioned strategic...
November 19, 2013
Science 2025: Everyone's a Scientist Ms. Marina Gorbis, Executive Director, Institute for the Future With advances in mobile technologies and citizen science communities, the line between a scientist...
November 19, 2013
Expansion of Life into the Universe Dr. Simon "Pete" Worden, Director, NASA Ames Research Center In this century we will leave our planet to begin an expansion into the universe and technology will...
As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
November 01, 2011
IRI’s 2011 Annual Meeting focused on “navigating the new normal.†Of course, a fair amount of discussion was given to defining that new normal—where are we, exactly, after the economic cataclysms of...
How do you prioritize breakthrough research based on technological trends, voice of the customer, and other external inputs? Our company supplies an extensive portfolio of metallic materials. An...
May 01, 2011
The Internet continues to create titanic shifts in everything from business models to geopolitics. It affects how companies innovate, how managers manage, and how businesses operate. Vint Cerf is one...
January 01, 2011
Industrial Research Institute’s R&D Trends Forecast for 2011 The Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI) 2010 survey of member companies suggests that 2011 may see a dramatic turnaround in R&D...
January 01, 2012
The Industrial Research Institute's (IRI) 2011 survey of member companies suggests a general optimism about R&D in-vestments for 2012. This year, 104 companies across a broad range of industries...
November 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: A historian of innovation explores the roots of the organization that became the Industrial Research Institute. IRI president Ed Bernstein offers a vision for its future. View full article...
November 01, 2013
As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, IRI commissioned the IRI2038 initiative, a strategic foresights project asking how events, developments, and emerging trends might shape the art and...
September 01, 2013
Two types of scenarios are commonly used to explore the future in a structured fashion: deductive and inductive. Deductive scenarios take a top-down approach, producing scenarios that allow leaders...