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The rapid spread of Covid-19 has led to an unprecedented bottom-up, distributed, frugal innovation response from individuals and maker communities worldwide who have rapidly developed and distributed crisis-critical items, filling shortages and providing a stop-gap solution for the disrupted supply chains. Lucia Corsini and Valeria Dammicco looked at these responses in the light of the frugal innovation paradigm.
The pandemic is driving economic and societal change, creating a space for new thinking, new business models and sustainable innovation. Do you have a track recommendation?
A game of chess is how Dr Lawrence Dooley describes the strategy that academic principal investigators (PI) have had to develop to ensure funding for discovery science. He discusses how conflicts in different agenda risks stifling blue-sky research prized by the private sector and how alternative models could address the checkmate.
The upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider requires new technologies and components. Professor Carsten Welsch believes this development that initially targets discovery science has excellent potential to translate into medical and industrial applications.
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.
Could coaching provide the support that SME’s require to improve their innovation activities? In a pilot 10 SMEs were introduced to strategy and technology management tools developed through research and given coaching on applying these tools to their own processes to improve their innovation activities.
Management tools and techniques such as roadmapping, portfolio management methods and scenario planning are considered useful for a variety of business issues, but there is a need for a more stable approach.
To extract best value from investments in technology and innovation, managers need to address a wide range of aspects. The emerging ISO standards provide an opportunity for improved tools to assist. One such tool, the Innovation Technology Management (ITM) process framework was shown to provide insights into performance trends and identify issues commonly faced across the oil and energy sector.
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.
Nine best practices that have been shown to help members of the Industrial Research Institute bring innovation to market are discussed in the paper Reinventing Supplier Innovation Relationships.
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
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