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.
If you are working in this field do get in contact.
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.
Tools
R&D Management Conference 2022
Latest
Sustainability, innovation and the role for SMEs
Climate change and social inequality are of concern to society, but to achieve a twin transition - digital and green - requires SME's to integrate ethical principle into their business models as well as multinationals, Dr Andrea Caputo argues.
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Crowd innovation at NASA solving grand challenges in days
The solution is not about expertise, it doesn’t always require someone who is a world expert just someone who can connect the dots. What we see in the research out of MIT, 70% of the time the successful challengers...
Read more
Exploitation of public sector R&D through open innovation strategies
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to knowledge transfer from public research organisations. Research by RADMA scholar, Maryam Ghorbankhani, has found that universities and public research organisations are very different types of institutions and this impacts the...
Read more
Unravelling antecedents of product innovation
RADMA Scholar Dacosta Omari is to to present a paper at the 29th IPDMC (Innovation and Product Development Management Conference) in Hamburg Germany 17-19 July 2022 about the antecedents of product innovation.
Read more
Crowdsourcing innovation – what potential contributors should consider
The crowdsourcing paradox - Individuals that act as providers of knowledge need to exchange (codified and tacit) solution information to attract seekers and develop a solution, while they need to protect their knowledge base from unwanted knowledge leakages and...
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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
Sustainability, innovation and the role for SMEs
Climate change and social inequality are of concern to society, but to achieve a twin transition - digital and green - requires SME's to integrate ethical principle into their business models as well as multinationals, Dr Andrea Caputo argues.
Read more
Crowd innovation at NASA solving grand challenges in days
The solution is not about expertise, it doesn’t always require someone who is a world expert just someone who can connect the dots. What we see in the research out of MIT, 70% of the time the successful challengers...
Read more
Exploitation of public sector R&D through open innovation strategies
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to knowledge transfer from public research organisations. Research by RADMA scholar, Maryam Ghorbankhani, has found that universities and public research organisations are very different types of institutions and this impacts the...
Read more
Unravelling antecedents of product innovation
RADMA Scholar Dacosta Omari is to to present a paper at the 29th IPDMC (Innovation and Product Development Management Conference) in Hamburg Germany 17-19 July 2022 about the antecedents of product innovation.
Read more
Crowdsourcing innovation – what potential contributors should consider
The crowdsourcing paradox - Individuals that act as providers of knowledge need to exchange (codified and tacit) solution information to attract seekers and develop a solution, while they need to protect their knowledge base from unwanted knowledge leakages and...
Read moreSee all news >>
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