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Innovation ecosystems offer an environment that allows multidisciplinary collaboration, ultimately the success of such alliances depends on trust and of ‘knowing’ each other, according to Nadine Roijakkers. We ask her about the impact social distancing will have on trust and governance in these systems.
What is required for an innovation ecosystem to be sustainable? The publication Sustainability is calling for submissions to its special issue.
Social media leaves a trail and Dhruba Borah, of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and a RADMA scholar used the LinkedIn platform to identify collaborative R&D when investigating offshoring of R&D.
Intellectual Property (IP) offers huge value to firms so why do some companies give away their patents for free? This is the conundrum being considered by Jonas Ehrnsperger, a RADMA scholar studying at CTM, University of Cambridge.
Choosing the best conference papers from the R&D Management Symposium was a difficult job says Dr Lawrence Dooley, University of Cork, one of the judging panel that also included Prof Ellen Enkel University of Duisberg, Essen, Dr Letizia Mortara, University of Cambridge and Prof Paavo Ritala
Testing for COVID-19 can provide reassurance, even if the result is positive, explains Val Lynch of AND Technology Research, the company provided usability testing to answer 3 questions for the client.
Within Fraunhofer disruption field study, companies were asked about how they manage potentially disruptive technologies at different stages from identification, through development to implementation – in comparison to other technologies.
“We are reviewing how innovative SME’s have changed their strategies over the last 100 days, says Alberto Di Minin. “This has given me hope.” As Europe adapts to the ‘new normal’ there is evidence that knowledge-based companies are rising to the challenges.
Globalization has meant that the development of tyres has become increasingly complex and dynamic. Guido Amati, R&D Project Portfolio Management at Pirelli Tyres describes Pirelli’s approach to Technology Roadmapping
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 and introduced an objective scoring system for projects.
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 many roles that that media has. Paavo talks about his research interests and his current project #MediaContradictions.
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 support of Prof. Joachim Warschat, discusses the design of an ambidextrous organisation that can sustain daily business while pursuing radical innovation.