Effective decision-making in R&D: a case study using biofilms
Deciding which project to progress when the technologies and applications are diverse is a challenge that faces many innovation managers. In this guest blog Mark Richardson, CEO of the National Biofilms Innovation Centre, discusses how he resolved this problem...
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Is the media sustainable? Interview with Paavo Ritala
The sustainability of the media industry is one of the issues that is of interest to Paavo Ritala, Professor of Strategy & Innovation at LUT University. The COVID-19 crisis has shown that information provider and 'watch-dog' are among the...
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Ambidextrous organisational design – balancing radical innovation with daily business
How do you balance the generation of short-term profit, gained from the exploitation of existing knowledge and success patterns, with long-term success to be achieved from building up new knowledge, new solutions and new structures? Patrick Olivan, with the...
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Challenges of opening labs after lockdown
Gradual lifting of lockdown by the UK government means that laboratories in both academic and industrial settings will be opening, Steve Bone explains this is far from trivial and offers some advice on best practice.
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How to avoid the pitfalls of trying to be an instant R&D expert in every science field
Quickly assessing a mass of diverse and sometimes misleading information, such as that presented by the COVID-19 crisis is exactly what many R&D managers have to do, writes Steve Bone. Fortunately, there are tools that can help those that...
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RADMA: Celebrating 40 years professional identity and impact on health system innovation
“The Good Doctor” prescribes that physicians are meant to be clinicians, teachers, and researchers. However, the digital revolution of the last few decades has dramatically changed the role and expectations of physicians, explains Adler Archer, King’s Business School, King’s...
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