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What motivates makers in open source hardware development?

By rnd-admin
on 14 January, 2021

"What motivates highly skilled people with closely related daily jobs to contribute to open source hardware projects, in their spare time?" ask researchers J. Piet Hausberg and Sebastian Spaeth

Museum of Making shows movement still relevant today

By rnd-admin
on 14 January, 2021

The world’s first factory, in Derby, UK has been opened as a museum to celebrate the role of the maker as a driver of innovation.

Lawrence Dooley, University College Cork (photo by Tomas Tyner, UCC )

How to gain private sector funding for discovery science

By rnd-admin
on 9 November, 2020

A game of chess is how Dr Lawrence Dooley describes the strategy that academic principal investigators (PI) have had to develop to ensure funding for discovery science. He discusses how conflicts in different agenda risks stifling blue-sky research prized...

Figure 1 The New World Kirkpatrick Model (1994)

Direct coaching supports SMEs with inbound knowledge transfer from university

By rnd-admin
on 30 September, 2020

Could coaching provide the support that SME's require to improve their innovation activities? In a pilot 10 SMEs were introduced to strategy and technology management tools developed through research and given coaching on applying these tools to their own...

Collaborative innovation in a time of social distancing – 5 things we now know

By rnd-admin
on 1 May, 2020

Like so many meetings, the IfM’s Open Innovation Forum's March workshop, was hastily reconvened into a virtual event due to the coronavirus crisis. Co-organiser Dominic Oughton, discusses some of the learning points.

What skills and attributes are important for R&D success?

By rnd-admin
on 8 April, 2020

Analysis indicated that R&D leaders tend to excel in technical insight, global awareness and the ability to foster an innovative environment and culture. But often fell short on some people management skills, such as managing conflict and addressing incompetence.