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Ambidextrous organisational design – balancing radical innovation with daily business

By rnd-admin
on 23 June, 2020

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...

Challenges of opening labs after lockdown

By rnd-admin
on 17 June, 2020

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.

How to avoid the pitfalls of trying to be an instant R&D expert in every science field

By rnd-admin
on 27 May, 2020

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...

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

R&D Management Symposium going virtual on 4-5 August 2020

By rnd-admin
on 12 May, 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.

Providing solutions in emergencies – call for papers

By rnd-admin
on 5 May, 2020

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...

Collaborative innovation in a time of social distancing – 5 things we now know

By rnd-admin
on 1 May, 2020

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.

Reviewing the innovation pipeline to detect timely opportunity

By rnd-admin
on 20 March, 2020

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…?”

Reflections on technology from Davos 2020 – a review

By rnd-admin
on 14 February, 2020

Computing technologies from 5G to artificial intelligence and their implications for the economy and society were major features of the recent Davos Conference, according to analysts at Mckinsey writing in an article 'Reflections on technology from Davos 2020'. Dr...

Frugal Innovation and Digitalization: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Impact

By rnd-admin
on 10 February, 2020

Evidence is busting the myth that frugal innovation is just for global south countries, this approach may provide a mechanism for affordable and sustainable solutions, Suchit Ahuja discusses this phenomenon.

Enabling sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management: Organization, frameworks, methods and tools

By rnd-admin
on 7 February, 2020

Although sustainability aspects are included in innovation strategy, it is far from being an integral part of innovation management, observes Claus Lang-Koetz. His track addresses the role of sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management – from a theoretical but also...