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Digitally-enabled business model innovation

How Digital Innovation can enable (or hinder) “Digitally-enabled Business Model Innovation”.
Davide Chiaroni

Circular economy put into practice: opportunities and challenges for innovative industrial paradigms

Circular Economy has become one of the hot topics in public debates about new and more sustainable industrial paradigms.
Marika Arena

Environmental sustainability, social impact and innovation

Companies are increasingly investing in innovation with the intention of generating a social or environmental impact, which requires trade-offs and balance...
Margherita Pero

Managing at the intersection between Innovation and supply chain management

Supply chain innovations can drive business model innovations and vice versa.
Dr Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

Innovation dynamics and organizational performance: novel strategies and approaches

Scholars are studying novel search strategies, which offer new perspectives and directions to conduct R&D strategies, for example temporal boundary spanning.
Architecting the digital supply chain

Food for Thought – The Open Innovation Forum finds a hotbed for start-ups

Dominic Oughton reflects on the 2017 Open Innovation Forum Pitching Contest and the ways in which the competition has evolved since its inception.
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R&D – Fit for the Future – Shaping the Digital Transformation

Fraunhofer IAO are conducting their third expert survey on current R&D trends in companies and are asking for responses.

Call for papers open for R&D Management Conference 2018

The 2018 R&D Management Conference has opened its call for papers - the deadline for abstracts is 15 February 2018.

RADMA announces 2017 doctoral studies programme

The RADMA Doctoral Studies Programme award provides up to three years funding offering an opportunity to concentrate on the studentship for the period of the award.
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Do you make technology choices according to your ideology?

Faced with the question of whether they make technology choices according to ideology, most people involved in R&D would say “Of course not”. But the truth is more complex.
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A busy time in Leuven!

R&D Management Conference 2017 attendants from academia and business were able to challenge and discuss their insights and the many still open questions we face and dare to ask.
Letizia Mortara

Letizia Mortara to head up new R&D Management Conference office

Dr Letizia Mortara has been appointed head of the R&D Management Conference Office, a new position announced by RADMA chairman Jeremy Klein at the 2017 Leuven conference.

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Nopparuj Chindasombatcharoen

R&D Conference Tracks

R&D Management Conference

R&D and Innovation Management is a dynamic field. The conference aims to capture the current interests of researchers and practitioners, curated into a number of tracks.

Innovation Leadership

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Although inherently risky, innovation management has an underlying body of knowledge, tools and approaches that can be widely applied. Here is an introduction to some of these concepts.

Best books for innovation management

Best books for innovation management?

There are many inspirational books for R&D management practitioners and scholars. Here is a short list of some of the best books for innovation management.
R&D publications

Must read papers on aspects of R&D Management

Want to know about R&D Management but too busy to read all the journals? The editors for R&D Today have each selected a journal and have made a selection of the most interesting papers of recent years.
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Are these the best tools for R&D Management?

There are many excellent tools and techniques for R&D management, but all too often people re-invent the wheel as knowledge of these gems is not shared. Here are some of the tools that RADMA trustees and contributors to R&D Today have found useful, but we are keen to know what has been missed or what others think of these tools.
eight principles of Innovation Management

Eight principles of Innovation Management

Which of the eight principles of Innovation Management do you think is most important? Victoria Milne and Joanne Hyland discuss how the framework is universally applicable but can be customised as required.

R&D Project Exchange

The R&D Project Exchange offers a unique platform for collaboration between university students and companies. This initiative invites students and businesses to co-develop research proposals, ensuring a balanced approach that addresses both academic objectives and real-world industry challenges.
Magnus Karlsson

The innovation disconnect

There is a disconnect between R&D spend and performance, says Professor Magnus Karlsson. Ahead of the launch of the international standard ISO 56000 he explains that the purpose of an Innovation Management System is to improve an organisation’s ability to realise value under conditions of uncertainty. 
Is it time to professionalise Innovation management?

Is it time to professionalise Innovation Management?

The challenge of how Innovation Management can gain the recognition it deserves stimulated a lively discussion in our webinar “Is it time to professionalise Innovation Management”. If you missed the webinar – you can watch the presentations from our two speakers and listen to the full discussion via a podcast on Soundcloud.

Innovation Management System ISO 56002:2019

Innovation is the driving force for companies to stay relevant in the market, observes the guidance for ISO 56002:2019 Innovation management system.
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Innovation Manager job description

The innovation management professional job role is broad. It encompasses both strategic and operational elements. These elements can be combined into a single role, or divided into separate roles. Innovationsledarna has created this useful job description that can be used as a guide to assembling one’s own job description or to create a new role as appropriate.

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Biodiversity & Innovation – Industry Panel

The natural environment has evolved over millennia to adapt and thrive with change. Could biodiversity provide us with the concepts needed to overcome the grand challenges and build a sustainable and prosperous future?  Three experts give their views in the Industry Panel, part of the R&D Management Conference 2025.
R&D Management Conference 2025

R&D Management Conference 2025

30 June – 2 July 2025, Institute of Management of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

ISPIM Innovation Conference 2025: Innovation Powered by Nature

15-18 June 2025, Bergen, Norway. Engage with fellow innovation professionals from academia, industry, consulting and the public sector in a truly diverse event with people attending from across the globe.
Henry Chesbrough

Festschrift to honour Henry Chesbrough

20-21 April 2026 at Luiss Business School in Rome. 2026 will mark Henry Chesbrough‘s 70th birthday. In honour of this milestone, some of his colleagues have organized a conference, a special issue of California Management Review, and a special section of Industrial & Corporate Change.

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