July 13, 2012
Authors Ted Farrington, Keith Henson (PepsiCo) and Christian Crews (AndSpace Consulting) outline four simple phases of foresight research methods used to influence the strategic research agenda at...
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December 07, 2012
The IRI2038 Futures Audit and Environmental Scan identified over 30 potential future drivers of change in R&D management. Futures Wheels for a few of these were completed at the IRI Member Summit...
November 04, 2013
The IRI Sustainability-Driven Innovation working group conducted a quick survey of SDI practices among IRI firms attending the IRI Jubilee meeting in May 2013. Survey questions addressed the nature...
February 24, 2013
An homage to IRI's founding, marking the 75 th anniversary of the day IRI was created. http://iriwebblog.org/2013/02/25/seventy-five-years-ago-today/
February 07, 2014
Jeff Hynds, Director, Innovation, Ingersoll Rand Company, discusses how the IRI Sustainability Maturity Model and Assessment Tool provide companies with a tool to understand their progress in...
February 28, 2013
MIT researchers delivered a report to Congress that explains why US manufacturing needs a more concerted effort at every level to stimulate and revive and which vindicates IRI’s call for an umbrella...
September 27, 2013
An overview of an online game hosted by IRI as part of its IRI2038 Futures Study research. http://iriwebblog.org/2013/09/27/innovate2038-envisioning-the-future-of-rd-with-global-crowd-sourcing/
September 27, 2013
A summary of the results from the massively open online game (MOOG) Innovate2038, part of the IRI2038 Futures Study. http://iriwebblog.org/2013/09/27/final-innovate2038-game-roundup/
October 13, 2013
An overview of the Tech Tournament hosted by the Industrial Research Institute as part of its 75 th Anniversary celebration in 2013. http://iriwebblog.org/2013/10/13/game-changing-innovations-in-the-...
January 07, 2014
An exploration of the results from one of the IRI2038 backcasting sessions covering the scenario “Africa Leapfrogs Developed Markets.†http://iriwebblog.org/2014/01/07/iri2038-a-blueprint-for-...
January 07, 2016
A clip of several IRI members explaining how they have benefited from participating in one of IRI’s ROR working groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUGOWZgCw58
November 28, 2014
Temple University’s Youngjin Yoo enquires about whether a digital copy of something can be considered more real than its physical version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN1veSd7LEY
November 20, 2013
Backcasting Workshop Results: San Jose & Globally - Session 2 Dr. Ted Farrington, Senior Consultant, AndSpace Consulting Mr. Christian Crews, Principal, AndSpace Consulting Results from each of...
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...
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...
May 20, 2014
Research-on-Research Plenary A brief introduction to IRI's Research-on-Research (ROR) program and the ROR working sessions https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/402/slide_presentation...