R&D Management Conference highlights for practitioners
R&D Management Conference includes many sessions of interest to practitioners including keynotes by Warren East of Rolls-Royce plc, Joe de Sousa AstraZeneca, David Teece Haas School of Business and Mark Samuels NIHR.
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Where do ideas come from?
People often think that being innovative means having a lot of ideas. But where do the ideas come from? The history of innovation is full of examples of people suddenly coming up with ideas apparently “out of the blue”...
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New avenues for business model innovation
Despite the high levels of interest and attention that have been applied to business model innovation, the phenomenon still represents ‘a slippery construct to study’. This fuzziness of the phenomenon is caused by inconsistencies in the conceptual framework of business...
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Once upon a time…
Stories reinforce our models and understanding of how innovation works in a vivid way. Not for nothing do they form the staple diet of most conference presentations, and in a more restrained fashion form the core of our teaching...
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Open versus closed innovation: are the metrics good enough?
Today’s business reality is not based on pure open innovation but on companies that invest simultaneously in closed as well as open innovation activities. Too much openness can negatively impact companies’ long-term innovation success, because it could lead to loss...
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