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“If you’re in R&D management and you’re ignoring sustainability, you are limiting your future job prospects,” says Steve Evans, Centre for Industrial Sustainability. He explains the importance of the energy transition to enabling sustainability and the role of value as tool for determining how to create change for the better.
New business models are key to sustainability, but many of the traditional tools fail to provide a solution. Our value mapping exercise unlocked the intellectual logic. What we found was designers didn’t need better design tools, they needed tools to understand failed value, and that’s all they needed.
There are many inspirational books for R&D management practitioners and scholars. Here is a short list of some of the best books for innovation management.
Want to know about R&D Management but too busy to read all the journals? The editors for R&D Today have each selected a journal and have made a selection of the most interesting papers of recent years.
There are many excellent tools and techniques for R&D management, but all too often people re-invent the wheel as knowledge of these gems is not shared.
Here are some of the tools that RADMA trustees and contributors to R&D Today have found useful, but we are keen to know what has been missed or what others think of these tools.
AI isn’t just a tool for faster research – it’s a catalyst for discovery. To support this, Elsevier has launched ScienceDirect AI, a cutting-edge generative AI tool for researchers that enables them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect.
“We wanted a fresh perspective to try to solve this issue and felt that bringing in somebody who was external to the team might approach the challenge without the bias created by knowledge of the subject matter,” comments co-founder Ben Abraham. IQBlade took on a PhD student for a short project.
AI generated digital twins have the potential to transform product innovation and development. The emergence of ‘Physical AI’ offers a potential step change for new product development, according to Andy Walker, Head of Commercial for Deep Tech at TTP.
The number one benefit of AI is improved innovation. As an estimated 70% of new product developments never become a commercial success, it is time to apply the power of AI, says Dr Robert G Cooper.
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