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Seventy-five years ago today…
By Ed Bernstein, President, Industrial Research Institute Seventy-five years ago today, the National Research Council (NRC) steering committee, led by Maurice Holland, Director, NRC’s Division of...
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Why Innovation Economy 2020 Matters
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President While sitting in a meeting about innovation on Capitol Hill, I noticed that the Congressional leaders in attendance agreed that no mechanism for establishing an...
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The Millennial Challenge: Generational Leadership Expectations
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President, and Greg Holden, Business Writer Today’s business executives are still adjusting to the behavior of the rising generation of leaders. Whether called “Gen Y’ers,”...
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Innovation Portfolio Management
By Scott Mathews, Technical Fellow in the Chief Engineer’s office at Boeing Research and Technology and co–guest editor of this special issue of RTM. It is difficult to understand why doing portfolio...
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Innovate2038: Envisioning the future of R&D with global crowd-sourcing
By Greg Holden, IRI Business Writer Over the past two days, people the world over brainstormed about the future of research and innovation on a game called Innovate2038. Developed by IRI and hosted on...
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Final #innovate2038 game roundup
By Jason Tester, IFTF, Innovate2038 Game-Master Amazing #Innovate2038 community: Three words: you. all. rock! The game ended at 9pm PT / midnight ET last night, with a final tally of 9,958 ideas from...
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Magic and Innovation
By Jim Euchner, VP of Global Innovation at Goodyear and Editor-in-Chief of Research-Technology Management (RTM) “Any sufficiently new technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Arthur C. Clarke...
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IRI2038: A Blueprint for Developing Africa?
By Greg Holden, Business Writer & Social Media Manager, IRI By planning for a possible future, do we inevitably allow for that future to come true? Take one of the foresight scenarios from the...
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Opportunity Finding
By Jim Euchner, Editor-in-Chief, Research-Technology Management Journal “The medium is the message.” – Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan theorized that every new technology (or...
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Shaping Innovation Success
By Jim Euchner. Is recognizing profitable ideas in business more like picking an NCAA March Madness bracket or more like managing a team to victory? One is about picking winners, based on knowledge,...
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Digitizing and Informating
Digital technology is allowing us to do things we could never do before (or do as easily), but we are spinning off information as a consequence, with profound implications for our experience of life.…...
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Changing the Culture of R&D
By Tamara Carleton, CEO and Founder, Innovation Leadership Board, LLC; William Cockayne, CEO and Founder, Lead|X; and, Yuriko Sawatani, Professor, Center for Leadership Strategy, Waseda University...
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Automation: A Philosophical Challenge?
(The following throwback article comes from the archives of Research Management, the precursor to IRI’s award-winning journal, Research-Technology Management (RTM), and appeared in the March 1962...
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Exploring Service Innovation and the Servitization of the Manufacturing Firm
By Tim Baines, Professor, Aston Business School; Director, Aston Centre for Servitization Research and Practice; and, guest editor of RTM special issue on Service Innovation Manufacturing and service...
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Advancing the State of Practice
By Jim Euchner, VP, Global Innovation, Goodyear, and RTM Editor-in-Chief This issue begins RTM’s 60th continuous year of publication. Originally called Research Management, it was founded as a journal...
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by Edward Bernstein, IRI president; published in RTM, Vol 60, 6 Five years ago, IRI celebrated its 75th anniversary by looking back over the accomplishments of the Institute and its members and...
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