Sustainability, innovation and the role for SMEs
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.
Read moreCrowd innovation at NASA solving grand challenges in days
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...
Read moreExploitation of public sector R&D through open innovation strategies
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...
Read moreCrowdsourcing innovation – what potential contributors should consider
The crowdsourcing paradox - Individuals that act as providers of knowledge need to exchange (codified and tacit) solution information to attract seekers and develop a solution, while they need to protect their knowledge base from unwanted knowledge leakages and...
Read moreDesign thinking to achieve ambidextrous innovation management
Design Thinking can help organisations to become ‘ambidextrous’ (pursue the competing agendas of exploitative innovation and explorative innovation in parallel), but to do both requires a shift in thinking. Researchers studied the journey of a leading Australian property development...
Read moreMeet the editors at R&D Management Conference 2022
Leading journals will be participating in the tracks at the R&D Management Conference and several have special issues based on the theme of the track. There are four broad themes and 38 tracks planned for the three days.
Read moreAI feel you – capturing the customer experience with chatbots
Could chatbots be used to elicit customer experience insights? Karim Sidaoui and colleagues at the Alliance Manchester Business School reviewed how AI could be used to combine the deep insights gained from interviews with the objectivity of quantitative analysis.
Read moreEINST4INE supporting digital transformation across innovation ecosystems
EINST4INE is a new training network that aims to develop a new generation of researchers with skills in innovation and technology management for the digital age.
Read moreBlind faith or hard evidence – does Design Thinking actually work in R&D?
Design Thinking is increasingly being adopted by R&D teams but is there hard evidence that it boosts an organisations performance?
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