R&D Today
R&D Today – sharing ideas, good practice and innovation in R&D management.
R&D Today aims to share knowledge, new approaches and well proven techniques, it is the outreach site for the Research and Development Management Association (RADMA), a charitable organisation that supports research, best practice and education.
The intention is to signpost resources, papers and tools that would be of value to someone working in R&D and innovation management. All content is credited and referenced back to the source in line with the fair use doctrine.
We have found the Pentathlon provides a useful framework for discussion – click through the slides below to explore further.
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Our Themes
There is no shortage of challenges facing R&D managers, but sources of practical help can be in short supply. To assist we have selected a number of themes that are of wide interest:
– technology strategy
– ideation and creativity
– managing the pipeline
– open innovation
– roadmapping
– managing international R&D
For each we have invited two guest editors, a practitioner and an academic, to curate a useful resource for each.
View more about our themes here.
The Pentathlon Framework
Without risk you cannot have game-changing innovation
The key to successful innovation is to fail fast at the front-end, where the impact on the business can be managed.
The Pentathlon Framework can be used to describe a structured process that removes the risk of failure as ideas progress through the ‘Innovation Funnel’.
Read more about the Pentathlon Framework here.
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R&D Today sharing ideas, good practice and innovation in R&D management.
There is no shortage of challenges facing R&D managers, but sources of practical help can be in short supply. To assist we have selected a number of themes that are of wide interest:
– technology strategy
– ideation and creativity
– managing the pipeline
– open innovation
– roadmapping
– managing international R&D
For each we have invited two guest editors, a practitioner and an academic, to curate a useful resource for each.
View more about our themes here.
The Pentathlon Framework
Without risk you cannot have game-changing innovation
The key to successful innovation is to fail fast at the front-end, where the impact on the business can be managed.
The Pentathlon Framework can be used to describe a structured process that removes the risk of failure as ideas progress through the ‘Innovation Funnel’.
Read more about the Pentathlon Framework here.
Latest news
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.
Read more
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...
Read more
Towards a data science of startups
Details of nearly a million startups from all over the world are now available through publicly accessible databases, this track explores how this wealth of information can be used.
Read more
Marketing Innovations: Adoption, diffusion and commercialisation
Traditional marketing techniques often prove to be ineffective for the design and diffusion of truly innovative offers, hence the need for a real "innovation marketing" but what techniques are available?
Read more
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