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MIT study vindicates ‘Innovation Economy 2020′ initiative
By Ed Bernstein, President, Industrial Research Institute Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) came to DC last Friday to deliver a report covering their research into our...
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The present and future of innovation according to today’s practitioners
The official journal of the Industrial Research Institute, Research-Technology Management (RTM), released its March-April 2013 issue last Friday with a concentration on evidence-based innovation and...
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Balancing personnel needs in your innovation culture
By Ed Bernstein, President, Industrial Research Institute Perhaps the most poorly understood aspect of innovation is the culture that enables (or inhibits) it within an organization. What element...
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The enlightened organization
By Ed Bernstein, President, Industrial Research Institute In general, the seventeenth and eighteenth century period known as the Enlightenment is considered a time when a new methodology was being...
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The way social media strengthen innovation
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President, and Greg Holden, IRI Business Writer Social media increase our access to information, they generate and advertise new trends, and they help us keep in touch with people...
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Sustainability: Leverage or Burden?
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President, and Greg Holden, Business Writer How one frames a question matters. Media pundits of all stripes can attest to this simple fact; the choice of words when framing your...
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Why Innovation Economy 2020 Matters
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President While sitting in a meeting about innovation on Capitol Hill, I noticed that the Congressional leaders in attendance agreed that no mechanism for establishing an...
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The Millennial Challenge: Generational Leadership Expectations
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President, and Greg Holden, Business Writer Today’s business executives are still adjusting to the behavior of the rising generation of leaders. Whether called “Gen Y’ers,”...
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User Innovation
By Jim Euchner, RTM Editor-in-Chief When I was a graduate student, I had a compelling need for sleep. My thesis involved many experiments in sequence, each of which required me to spend about 20 hours...
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The Secret to Developing Technological Innovation Managers
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President Do technology innovation managers have access to equal professional development as other managers? I was confronted with this question at a conference of innovation...
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Defining Your Supplier Relationships Matters
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President, and Greg Holden, Business Writer Elements of business that were traditionally taken for granted are coming to play ever greater roles in how we innovate. The horizontal...
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Innovation is Change Management
By Jim Euchner, RTM Editor-in-Chief It is perhaps a tautology to say that innovation is change management. By definition, innovation is giving something new to the world, and accepting something new...
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Why Business Leaders Really Fear Innovation
By Greg Holden, IRI Business Writer/Blogger Innovation: the greatest engine of economic growth, prosperity and job creation. Although business leaders acknowledge this superlative description as true,...
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Innovation Portfolio Management
By Scott Mathews, Technical Fellow in the Chief Engineer’s office at Boeing Research and Technology and co–guest editor of this special issue of RTM. It is difficult to understand why doing portfolio...
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Innovate2038: Envisioning the future of R&D with global crowd-sourcing
By Greg Holden, IRI Business Writer Over the past two days, people the world over brainstormed about the future of research and innovation on a game called Innovate2038. Developed by IRI and hosted on...
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Final #innovate2038 game roundup
By Jason Tester, IFTF, Innovate2038 Game-Master Amazing #Innovate2038 community: Three words: you. all. rock! The game ended at 9pm PT / midnight ET last night, with a final tally of 9,958 ideas from...
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Game Changing Innovations in the Spotlight
By Greg Holden, IRI Business Writer and Social Media Manager If you were to think back on the last 75 years and compile a list of scientific and technological innovations that had the greatest impact...
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Poll: My organization’s innovation culture is like a…
Filed under: innovation, organizational culture, research & development, Uncategorized Tagged: business ecosphere, gazelle, giraffe, lion, mole, poll, R&D, vulture
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Magic and Innovation
By Jim Euchner, VP of Global Innovation at Goodyear and Editor-in-Chief of Research-Technology Management (RTM) “Any sufficiently new technology is indistinguishable from magic.” —Arthur C. Clarke...
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Innovation Culture and Open Space Meetings
By Jim Euchner, VP of Global Innovation at Goodyear and Editor-in-Chief of Research-Technology Management (RTM) Everyone files out of the meeting room. The senior R&D leadership team has just...
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