New product development in new ventures
Crowdfunding, rapid prototyping and the rise of Fab-Spaces are lowering the obstacles to new product development for entrepreneurs but the theories of innovation management have not kept pace, says Valeria Dammicco, who aims to stimulate debate in this track...
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Contextual Specificity in R&D Management
Designing a new electric car or developing a new treatment for Covid - the technologies required set the context for innovation and will influence: risk, timescales, IP strategy, financing requirements and more. This track on contextual specificity at the...
Read moreFrugal digital innovation and transformation
The need to reuse and repurpose during a time of restricted resources has created a wider resonance for a frugal approach. Arguably, frugal digital innovation provides an opportunity to drive attainment of UN’s global sustainable development goals (SDGs) in...
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Sustainability and SMEs: what roles for entrepreneurship and innovation?
Climate change, social inequality and gender gaps are of concern to civil society, but to achieve a twin transition - digital and green - requires SME's to integrate ethical principle into their business models. We asked the co-chair Dr...
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Crowd innovation at NASA solving grand challenges in days
The solution is not about expertise, it doesn’t always require someone who is a world expert just someone who can connect the dots. What we see in the research out of MIT, 70% of the time the successful challengers...
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Exploitation of public sector R&D through open innovation strategies
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to knowledge transfer from public research organisations. Research by RADMA scholar, Maryam Ghorbankhani, has found that universities and public research organisations are very different types of institutions and this impacts the...
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