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R&D Management has announced its two new Co-Editors-in-Chief Alberto Di Minin and Paavo Ritala, they are supported by an editorial team with significant experience in both academic and commercial spheres of R&D and technology management.
Congratulations to RADMA scholar Dana Lunberry on gaining her PhD. Dana was investigating how affordance of technology impacts relationships between technologies, humans and their environments.
Now is the time to change – inspirational speakers provide their insights in the three plenary sessions at the R&D Management Conference
African firms are innovative but unsupported, argues Xiaolan Fu in her most recent book ‘Innovation Under the Radar’. The book provides the first survey-based analysis of innovation in the informal economy.
There are three things that make the iPhone possible – cellular networks, lasers and solid-state electronics and transistors – all these innovations were made possible with a significant contribution from fundamental research at the Bell Labs, now these labs along with many others have closed. Where will future innovation come from? Professor Ashish Arora of Duke University discusses the Changing Structure of the American Innovation Ecosystem.
“Although the pandemic has stimulated digital innovations and digitisation of many B2C sectors, the pandemic has made it more difficult for companies developing ‘hard’ technologies,” says Jane List, editor-in-chief of World Patent Information.
2021 marks the centenary of Chris Freeman’s birth, founder of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). An influential economist and science policy advisor, he argued that growth should be sustainable economically and socially. Jeremy Hall, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management is to talk about his work at the R&D Management Conference.
Platform-based businesses, such as Ebay, AirBnB, Deliveroo have become increasingly important in the economy, but little is known about the impact of different orchestration strategies for managing social and interpersonal interaction with the platform. Xia Han’s research has shown first mover advantage has been over stated.
The rate of innovation during the pandemic has increased, research has revealed, but the long term implications are less certain. Bram Timmermans comments that in May 2020 just over 50% of managers indicated that they have innovated as a result of the pandemic; this increased to 76% six months later.
Greater use of tools and techniques for innovation will have lasting impacts after the crisis, according to Charles Henry Noble, editor in chief of the Journal of Product and Innovation Management.
The Green Check Your Idea tool helps innovation managers prepare an initial assessment of potential environmental impacts and to draw up proposals for improvement. It enables environmental effects be examined more closely and optimised in early innovation phases.
Agile practices originated in the software domain but are increasingly applied to the development of physical products. A multiple case-study involving 17 manufacturing companies from a variety of industries was conducted to understand how agile is currently applied in industry practice.