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This experiential workshop at the R&D Management Conference 2026 complements the paper session “Arts-Based Initiatives, Creativity and Innovation” (track 1.4). It offers all conference participants a creative exploration of how artistic practices foster innovation in times of disruption.
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how vehicles are designed, manufactured, validated, operated, and maintained. Pranjal Saikia, Head of the Vehicle Component Solution Department at LG Soft India, describes the digital transformation at this pioneering automotive company.
50 percent of software projects fail to meet their original objectives – but does this mean they were unsuccesful? Valerie Lynch, argues that through agile working, the engineering team can often make the impossible, possible. And yet success is often judged on whether estimates were correct, rather that what they achieved within the time and budget.
NASA is watching the weather forecast for Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was “80 per cent go” for the launch of Artemis II this week.
The Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) has become a real-world laboratory for understanding how culture drives innovation in complex technical organizations.
The Innovation Culture Framework enables these lessons to be shared with all progressive organisations.
Arts-based initiatives can enhance innovation by stimulating perception, imagination, and transformation. The humanoid robot character C-3P0 first appeared in the Star Wars in 1976, many years before droids became a reality. Creative writing can give insights into future technologies.
A dramatic restructuring of the global economy requires a UK innovation strategy that is focussed on increasing the competitive advantage within sectors, Lord David Sainsbury observed at the launch of the UK Innovation Report 2026. The report, produced by Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy group puts the UK performance into an international context.
Embedding innovation into organizational DNA is not about asking people to be more creative, says Anjali Jain.
She observes that it is about designing rituals that legitimize exploration, language that normalizes uncertainty, and power signals that reward intelligent risk-taking.
Leadership style is a critical factor in the success of AI transformation. Interviews with 31 CEOs from Finland firm revealed three distinct approaches – Generalist, Expert, and Disruptive.
Misalignment between IP and business strategy can lead to severe and costly errors, argues Frank Tietze. Blind spots can result in lost competitive advantage, reduced valuation, and costly litigation.
In a guest post, he describes how IP-roadmapping provides a useful visual tool.
When investigation into the Colombia tragedy revealed a deeper, systematic organizational problem. NASA reponded rapidly and by 2006, JSC leadership articulated a new narrative known as the Business Imperative.
It reframed innovation as essential to mission success rather than a peripheral activity. Every new mission would demand novel approaches to technology, partnerships, and problem-solving to embed innovation into the system.
