Goal: To identify the specific best practices that IRI firms use to identify whitespace opportunities and actions successful firms take to overcome barriers to commercializing these opportunities...
Learning Center
IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
IRI Research
March 22, 2017
How will Big Data inform, enable and disrupt R&D activities? How can R&D management improve from Big Data? Who will be using Big Data and what will they need to know? What technologies and...
March 07, 2016
"Big Data isn't a solution-it's a problem" Presented by: Mike Blackburn & Jeff Alexander Spring 2016 https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation...
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...
October 17, 2016
Prototyping a Future Vision of R&D Collaboration In an interactive follow-up session to their plenary talk, the ROR Collaboration team will delve deeper into their latest research on a new...
October 18, 2016
In celebration of its 75th Anniversary, the IRI launched the IRI2038 Futures Study, its largest and most expensive research project ever undertaken. The focus question for IRI2038 was, “How might...
October 17, 2016
Research team leaders discuss different views on how digitalization will change business models and impact all aspects of the innovation process. What are the trends to identify now that might...
October 17, 2016
Investment in Virtual Experimentation and Simulation (VE&S) in R&D is growing rapidly across industries. Technology has matured and investment barriers are decreasing to tolerable levels...
October 17, 2016
Innovation in R&D is a perpetual challenge, but online crowdsourcing platforms have enabled unprecedented opportunities to find creative inspirations and spark novel connections between ideas...
October 17, 2016
The Big Data project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. The goal of the study is to validate the hypothesis that...
Completed October 2017 IRI's 2017 Strategic Research Platform: Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management Following on from the IRI2038 Futures Study and the Digitalization and R&D...
October 19, 2016
Key Learnings from the Member Summit We are happy to bring you take-aways from each plenary session from this week's Member Summit. Please share what you've learned with your team and spread your...
August 30, 2016
My career has been a colorful journey. In academia, I worked at the borderline between physical experiments and the early days of numerical simulation. I did some research work, earned my PhD, and...
August 30, 2016
In 2013, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) commissioned the IRI2038 foresight project to research how developments in technology, business processes, regulation and other spheres will impact...
August 30, 2016
According to research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute in 2011, big data "will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of growth, innovation, and consumer surplus" in the...
May 24, 2016
The Virtual Experimentation and Simulation project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. They are working to answer the following...