Innovation in an era of disruption – R&D Management Conference 2021 announces tracks
The disruption of the coronavirus pandemic showed that innovation can happen at faster clock speeds when it is imperative. The R&D Management Conference 2021 'Innovation in an era of disruption' is reviewing the impacts and has just announced...
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Museum of Making shows movement still relevant today
The world’s first factory, in Derby, UK has been opened as a museum to celebrate the role of the maker as a driver of innovation.
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Digital fabrication maker response to COVID-19
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...
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Innovation in an Era of Disruption – R&D Management Conference 2021 – Call for tracks
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?
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How to gain private sector funding for discovery science
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...
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Discovery science for the Large Hadron Collider upgrade will fast track innovation
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.
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Call for papers – Sustainable Ecosystems
What is required for an innovation ecosystem to be sustainable? The publication Sustainability is calling for submissions to its special issue.
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Best papers of the R&D Management Symposium
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,...
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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.
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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.
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