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At Rolls-Royce we consider innovation to be the lifeblood of a successful company. It is also hugely satisfying; it creates enthusiasm, as success makes people innovate more and creates a kind of cooperative virtuous circle, says Warren East, Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce.
Wouldn’t it be great if you knew that caring about your own creativity could help your team to live up to their creative potential?
RADMA has issued an open call for proposals under its Postgraduate Project Support Programme.
An often-quoted paper by Sharpe and Keelin, back in 1998, reported how managers at GlaxoSmithKline redesigned their portfolio selection process.
In the Agile approach a team works together in a scrum sharing tasks in an informal way to deliver a defined output in a relatively short time a sprint.
Intuition can be very powerful, but when faced with novel situations our intuition is surprisingly easily led astray. There’s a whole body of work on this in the field of Behavioural Economics.
A good understanding of the R&D pipeline and portfolio is essential to reduce waste, duplication and poor use of valuable resources, says Joe de Sousa of AstraZeneca
The R&D Management Conference 2017 covers a rich and varied range of topics of interest both to academics and practitioners active in the field of innovation, technology and Research and Development management.
Independent, objective experts are invaluable when defining technology strategy. Free from the constraints of internal R&D activities they can identify new growth platforms for an organisation that are often surprising. But how can you engage with experts constructively when their spheres of influence lie well beyond the core knowledge of your company?
‘Very relevant and excellently operationalised paper on the phenomenon of circular economy with focus on cradle to cradle quality standard. This is one of the first works in this area providing such broad empirical evidence’
A highlight of the year is the R&D Management Conference. The 2016 conference ‘From Science to Society: Innovation and Value Creation’ was held in Cambridge, UK, and the 2017 conference will be held at the University of Leuven, Belgium, from 2-5 July.
Researchers at the Institute for Manufacturing develop new ideas and approaches and these are transferred to companies and to national and regional governments by IfM Education and Consultancy Services