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When working with defence and space an innovative mindset is a must. But new opportunities equal uncertainty. Trying to solve a classified problem involves enormous risks in the innovative process. Prof. Jacob Brix is in conversation with Annette Skyt, Innovation Specialist at Terma, a leading engineering and technology company operating in the aerospace, defence, and security sectors.
The pandemic has increased capability to manage complex systems, says Raffaella Manzini, LIUC Università Cattaneo. When researching a special issue for R&D Management she was positively surprised to find that many organisations were already adopting new models for technology innovation.
The introduction of object identification to securely connect the physical and virtual worlds can help facilitate the introduction of a circular business model (CBM) but there are several types of CBM and different technologies are required for each.
Radical innovation requires a different skill set to new product developments, but offers a huge opportunity for business growth. Jacob Brix is keen to explore ‘why so few companies are embracing radical innovation?’ in this track in the R&D Management Conference.
This track at the R&D Management Conference explores the potential of experimentation, both success and failure, and the implications for the organisation. We are hoping to offer a new perspective on knowledge creation says Alessandro Narduzzo.
The challenges reshaping the global economy have seen strategic leaders exploring differentiated ways of enabling radical innovations that will be game-changing. This track in the R&D Management Conference 2022 looks for future-focused answers on ‘how’ strategic leaders can and do pursue radical innovations. We asked co-chair Mariano (Pitosh) Heyden about the influences in this field.
Crowdfunding, rapid prototyping and the rise of Fab-Spaces are lowering the obstacles to new product development for entrepreneurs but the theories of innovation management have not kept pace, says Valeria Dammicco, who aims to stimulate debate in this track at the R&D Management Conference
Designing a new electric car or developing a new treatment for Covid – the technologies required set the context for innovation and will influence: risk, timescales, IP strategy, financing requirements and more. This track on contextual specificity at the R&D Management Conference 2022, explores the interaction between the innovation context – particularly scientific or technological – and R&D management practices.
The need to reuse and repurpose during a time of restricted resources has created a wider resonance for a frugal approach. But there are detractors, hear the debate at the R&D Management Conference.
Climate change and social inequality are of concern to society, but to achieve a twin transition – digital and green – requires SME’s to integrate ethical principle into their business models as well as multinationals, Dr Andrea Caputo argues.
The solution is not about expertise, it doesn’t always require someone who is a world expert just someone who can connect the dots. What we see in the research out of MIT, 70% of the time the successful challengers came from somewhere not in the domain of the challenge owner. We have 40 different open innovation crowds that represent about 110 million people and we are matchmaking those to projects across NASA and across the federal government.
One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to knowledge transfer from public research organisations. Research by RADMA scholar, Maryam Ghorbankhani, has found that universities and public research organisations are very different types of institutions and this impacts the success of knowledge-transfer.
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