Working with the best people is more important than employing them
Six things I have learnt about R&D management - Mark Richardson, former VP of Research and Technology at Smith & Nephew plc, shares his experiences.
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Why technology entrepreneurs fail to realise potential of new product developments
Yuta Hirose discusses why technology entrepreneurs fail to realise their potential as part of a PhD funded by the RADMA Doctoral Studies Programme.
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Seduction and persuasion – Intuitive v. analytical thinking in technology management
People in R&D usually have a mix of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics training and this requires structured analytical thinking. But many of these people are easily led astray by their intuitions, especially when working on problems outside their...
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Technology strategy
How do you choose which technologies the firm should invest in? How should new technologies be acquired, developed, protected and integrated? How can you decide the most appropriate means of exploiting technology resources and assets?
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How distortions and deceptions impact the creation of technology strategy
Cognitive bias, where a decision-maker actively seeks out and assigns more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, can disrupt the technology strategy which needs to be objective.
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How do you use a technology platform for business growth?
Intellectual assets are at the core of our business, explains Dr Ronald Hage of Catexel describing how the company has used its technology platform to grow the company. "Originally the technology came from the industrial cleaning, but we have...
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