Innovation in an era of disruption – R&D Management Conference 2021 announces tracks
The disruption of the coronavirus pandemic showed that innovation can happen at faster clock speeds when it is imperative. The R&D Management Conference 2021 'Innovation in an era of disruption' is reviewing the impacts and has just announced...
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Reflections on business model innovation and future vision
Business model innovation is an essential driver of a company’s competitive advantage, however, successful models seem to result from trial and error exercises rather than from a systematic process. This offers an opportunity for scholars to increase the ability...
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The Future of R&D and Innovation: Development, models and tools
Dr Sven Schimpf, Managing Director of Fraunhofer Group comments that the future of R&D and Innovation is highly uncertain. "A higher degree of interdisciplinarity, openness, flexibility and digitalisation with a stronger focus on user value are among the developments...
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Systems Theory Approaches for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research: Gaining novel insight into factors that influence innovation processes and outcomes
Convergence between technologies and approaches stimulates innovation but understanding the multiple interactions can be problematic, Kevin Reuter of West Saxon University discusses the need for a systems approach to research.
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Intellectual Property Management
Digitisation is creating new challenges for intellectual property, Martin Bader discusses this ahead of the R&D Management Conference
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Enabling sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management: Organization, frameworks, methods and tools
Although sustainability aspects are included in innovation strategy, it is far from being an integral part of innovation management, observes Claus Lang-Koetz. His track addresses the role of sustainability-oriented innovation in R&D management – from a theoretical but also...
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