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Integrating sustainable value thinking into technology forecasting: a configurable toolset

Sustainable value gives longer term business return because it delivers the triple bottom line of economic, environmental and social value. However, current assessment methods are essentially audits and can only be used when every detail of an innovation are known. This paper presents a forward-looking approach to be used at an early stage of the idea/design to question and improve technological developments.

usability testing offer new insights for product developers

Usability testing of new COVID-19 workplace test kits

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.

How do companies deal with potentially disruptive technologies?

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.

Professor Elicia Maine, Symposium Co-Chair, Simon Fraser University

Increasing chances of success for science-based university spinoffs

What makes some scientists successful entrepreneurs? To discover the magic ingredient, researchers investigated the companies established by Professor Robert Langer, a star scientist-entrepreneur. The paper, to be presented at the R&D Management Symposium, looks at the pre-formulation stage of 30 ventures co-founded by MIT professor.

Ingenuity in the face of crisis gives hope for a strong recovery

“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.

Pirelli’s approach to Technology Roadmapping

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

Effective decision-making in R&D - Biofilms

Effective decision-making in R&D: a case study using biofilms

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.

Is the media sustainable? Interview with Paavo Ritala

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.

Realise Ambidexterity with Exploitation and Exploration

Ambidextrous organisational design – balancing radical innovation with daily business

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.