As physics advances our journey through the unknown, is faith being squeezed out?
Discovery of the ‘God particle’ was like finding the missing piece in a vast jigsaw – we knew what it needed to look like to complete the picture, but what if it didn’t fit?
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Open Innovation the Chinese way
High-speed rail and semiconductors play a key role in the implementation of China's Belt and Road Initiative, which can be considered a country-level policy of ‘Inside-Out’ open innovation. The authors observe that China’s path to prosperity is very different to...
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Contextual Specificity in R&D Management – an interview with Jeremy Klein
Managing pharmaceutical drug development is a world apart from managing software development. The timescales are different, the costs are different and the people are different too. Jeremy Klein, Chair of RADMA, explains why contextual specificity is important in R&D...
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How do you use roadmapping? Could it work better?
Few companies were realising the full potential of roadmapping back in 2015/16 when the Institute of Manufacturing and Fraunhofer Group conducted a study of roadmapping practice. The research team is now revisiting the study to see how the situation...
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Is AI the new R&D function in modern corporations?
The role and impact of R&D (broadly defined to include driving innovation in any aspect of the firm) has dramatically increased, says Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School. In essence, AI has become the new R&D function in...
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Multiple perspectives key to project portfolio management
Project portfolio management (PPM) is about the management, control and accountability of all programs, projects and related activities of an organisation. Projects are valued according to a range of criteria. The Strategic Project and Portfolio Management event, taking place...
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Competing in the Age of AI
Traditional organizations start to face diseconomies of scale, scope, and learning as they grow. You know the stuff. But AI allows the modern giga-platform companies to grow at unprecedented pace and the it seems that there are very...
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Submissions open for R&D Management Conference 2022
The organisers of the R&D Management Conference 2022 "Innovation for people and territories" have opened the call for abstract submissions.
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Focus on antimicrobial resistance and a surge in quantum computing research are R&D predictions for 2022
What are your predictions for hot topics for 2022? Innovation experts at the Pistoia Alliance cite tackling antimicrobial resistance, quantum computing to optimise supply chains, commercial space travel and use of AI in drug discovery.
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Accelerating new product development
"Now is the time to re-think the firm’s innovation process and methods," argues Robert G.Cooper, best known for the development of StageGate, a new product development process that is widely used by multinational organisations. In his recent paper “Accelerating...
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