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“If you’re in R&D management and you’re ignoring sustainability, you are limiting your future job prospects,” says Steve Evans, Director of Research at the Centre for Industrial Sustainability, IfM. Aligning innovation with the challenge of decarbonisation will create new market opportunities – if you have a story to share do contribute to our special feature.
The R&D Management Conference is a highlight in the year for many working in this discipline – a chance to meet up in person and discuss new and emerging ideas in your field. We asked Valentina Re about life behind the scenes.
In his entertaining book, Tim Minshall explains how huge inefficiencies in each of the make, move and consume stages of the manufacturing process are not sustainable, but then reveals how looking at issues from a different perspective can address these challenges.
By leveraging its ‘buyer-driven’ powers to impose sustainability standards on its suppliers and supply chains, IKEA is able to drive change in a way that national governments are not, concludes research by Arabella Mocciaro Li Destri.
Companies introduce the arts, not just as an organisational and management initiative but also as an experience-based process that will provide enjoyment and drive value to the business. How do you measure the value created?
The ability to measure value created through innovation at a macro-level, would make it possible to assess to contribution of government policy to the stimulation of innovation and the value created by funding and investment. David Stroll argues that Productivity Cost Accounting would bridge the gap between firm and economic level.
In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, knowledge is the only sure source of lasting competitive advantage. If knowledge is a company asset then how do you measure its acquisition and value? Valerie Lynch discusses the benefits of a value process.
Virtually every Nobel Prize winner is a polymath in some way. Fifty percent of the scientists and closer to ninety percent of mathematicians have a highly developed avocation for music. Art thinking can add creativity to innovation.
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