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An exclusive range of sunglasses promoted at the 2020 Tomorrowland festival were produced from recycled bottles and created using 3D printers by Yuma Labs. The intersection between digital technologies and the circular economy is the theme for an R&D Management Special Issue.
Does the attractiveness of the founder Chief Executive influence the validation of the company? This was the question that Massimo Colombo and his co-authors set out to discover in their paper “The CEO beauty premium: Founder CEO attractiveness and firm valuation in initial coin offerings”.
Making decisions under uncertainty has always been challenge for R&D Management, but over recent years uncertainty has almost become the norm, prompting a number of leading academics to call for an ‘innovation system approach’ to tackling the issues facing R&D managers in a time of disruption.
Bruno Fischer observes that a move to seamless integrated innovation processes can increase the vulnerability to attack. “Many organisations have undergone a digital transformation to increase visibility of information flows through an organisation.To keep a step ahead requires the organisation to have ‘strategic cyber-foresight'”
Entrepreneurship has been on global decline since the turn of the century and so has democracy. This is not a coincidence according to David Audretsch of Indiana University He says “democracy and entrepreneurship are inextricably linked. Both are manifestations of the same underlying force — freedom of thought, decision-making and action.”
Organisations often talk about the importance of having a burning platform as the catalyst for change. Peter Robbins discusses how Covid, the ultimate burning platform, accelerated the innovation process and intensified collaboration between new partners across the private, public and third sector; partnerships that would have been unimaginable beforehand.
Do you want to get published? Then keep it original and appropriate for the readership of the journal. Editors from a range of prestigious publications gave their advice at the R&D Management Conference 2022 and a number of common themes emerged.
Around 90 per cent of the value of modern-day companies is determined by their intangible assets, which includes Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Dr. Alfred Radauer, explains that both formal and informal tools are available to help companies give a value to their research.
Coopetition – competitors working together – is not a rare phenomenon; some well known innovations have resulted, such as development of vaccines and engine efficiency in the automotive industry. Carmen Cabello Medina, organiser of the 2023 R&D Management Conference, comments: “It is clear that coopetition entails risks, such as issues regarding knowledge appropriation, which have to be managed. But it is worth taking the risk, as it represents the opportunity to bring very specialized and valuable knowledge together. This is the only way to tackle grand challenges of our time.”
Innovation Challenges enable companies to source knowledge and solutions to innovation problems. This is achieved by companies engaging with young talents and experts outside the immediate organisation, facilitated by an intermediate according to the Open Innovation paradigm.
Nicola Doppio, Innovation Officer at HIT, ran a workshop at the R&D Management Conference 2022 and discussed some of the learning points that the organisation has gained from running these challenges. We asked him to share his experiences
Jeremy Klein, Chair of RADMA, congratulated the organisers on a very successful conference, that had attracted 500 registrations with over 300 delegates attending in person. He also announced the winners of the Best Papers. R&D Management Conference invites a diverse range of papers on difference aspects of the discipline, so he found it a difficult job to select just a few that are outstanding.
If you had a new technology to design a new food product would you create something new or slavishly produce a replica of a familiar dish? Benjamin Wurgaft is exploring the future of food in his keynote at the R&D Management Conference
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