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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Reflections on technology from Davos 2020 – a review
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...
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Frugal Innovation and Digitalization: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Impact
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.
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Enabling sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management: Organization, frameworks, methods and tools
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...
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R&D Management Conference 2020 – tracks cover latest thinking
Innovations across the boundaries - is the theme for the 2020 R&D Management Conference and there are 25 tracks to choose from and we have asked the track chairs to give an insight into what fascinates them about the...
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Innovation for sustainability what is needed to fulfil such a role?
Innovation for sustainability is a way for firms to improve their competitiveness while also facilitating the greater good - but both facilitating and constraining forces are at play for businesses to actually adopt such a role.
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How can universities, through social impact, support a sustainable future?
Universities all over the world are facing pressure to deliver knowledge in a way that supports a more sustainable development of societies. Emphasis on this 'third mission' is creating discussion over the techniques used.
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Social Systems and Future Manufacturing (SSFM)
How do social systems shape the development and diffusion of new manufacturing technologies and how will these societal systems be affected by new technological trends? These are the big questions being discussed in this track.
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Can frugal innovation make a wave in ‘red oceans’?
'Red oceans' is term coined to describe known market spaces, where to compete industry rivals need to be increasingly cut throat. Frugal innovation has the potential to disrupt these assumptions rewriting many of the rules of marketing.
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University-Industry owned Joint Laboratories: A new hype?
There is a lot of work done on the third mission, knowledge triangle and triple helix which postulate that universities research should be more aligned to industrial application but the best methods of implementing this are unclear. This track...
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