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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Challenges of opening labs after lockdown
Gradual lifting of lockdown by the UK government means that laboratories in both academic and industrial settings will be opening, Steve Bone explains this is far from trivial and offers some advice on best practice.
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How to avoid the pitfalls of trying to be an instant R&D expert in every science field
Quickly assessing a mass of diverse and sometimes misleading information, such as that presented by the COVID-19 crisis is exactly what many R&D managers have to do, writes Steve Bone. Fortunately, there are tools that can help those that...
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R&D Management Symposium going virtual on 4-5 August 2020
It is confirmed that the 2020 R&D Management Symposium "Invention to Innovation: Creating the Conditions for Impact" is to be virtual and free to participate.
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Providing solutions in emergencies – call for papers
The current global challenge has provoked interesting approaches to innovation - from collaborative working and open innovation, to crowdsourcing and repurposing of labs and equipment. If you have some interesting examples - then R&D Management has a call for...
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Collaborative innovation in a time of social distancing – 5 things we now know
Like so many meetings, the IfM’s Open Innovation Forum's March workshop, was hastily reconvened into a virtual event due to the coronavirus crisis. Co-organiser Dominic Oughton, discusses some of the learning points.
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Reviewing the innovation pipeline to detect timely opportunity
Rapid responders are organizations that are already reviewing the innovation pipeline to detect timely opportunity. In response to new environmental factors and circumstances, they pause briefly and ask this of the projects in their pipeline, “is it time…?”
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