Strategic leadership and new pathways for radical innovation
The challenges reshaping the global economy have seen strategic leaders exploring differentiated ways of enabling radical innovations that will be game-changing. This track in the R&D Management Conference 2022 looks for future-focused answers on 'how' strategic leaders can and...
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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...
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Frugal 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. But there are detractors, hear the debate at the R&D Management Conference.
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Sustainability, innovation and the role for SMEs
Climate change and social inequality are of concern to society, but to achieve a twin transition - digital and green - requires SME's to integrate ethical principle into their business models as well as multinationals, Dr Andrea Caputo argues.
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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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