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Monday October 02, 2017 – Thursday October 05, 2017
Powered largely by content developed within IRI, the Summit is an in-depth exploration of various working group findings and special reports on IRI's year-long initiative on "Stragegic Challenges in R&D Talent Management."
Globalization Transformed--the Next Practices to Revolutionize Global Innovation Corporations, universities, and federal labs alike must take proactive measures to manage their innovation in the...
Wednesday April 01, 2020 1:00pm – Thursday April 02, 2020 3:00pm
Highly acclaimed program exclusively for technology leaders gives your high potential innovation managers the skills to make more effective strategic decisions. In partnership with Kellogg.
October 09, 2019
Our organization holds an annual R&D meeting for our team once a year which includes a presentation by an engaging speaker. We are looking for fresh ideas for this presentation and would like to...
May 18, 2020
Welcome to Week 2 of IRI's VIRTUAL 2020 Annual Conference Campbell Soup’s Vice President of R&D, Craig Slavtcheff, will be kicking off the second week with how Campbell Soup has hardwired #Agile...
Monday October 29, 2018 2:00pm – Tuesday October 30, 2018 4:00pm
The topic of both 2018 CTO Forums is Digital Transformation - the progress of digital usage beyond simply supporting and enhancing traditional methods to inherently enabling new types of innovation,...
Who manages your IP? How is the leadership role defined for your IP management function? What are the distinct job responsibilities for this role? How does this role fit within your organization – is...
The Reprint Collection includes the best papers published in RTM. The articles chosen in these special collections were selected to give you a better perspective on managing technological innovation...
October 17, 2016
The Big Data project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. The goal of the study is to validate the hypothesis that...
July 27, 2020
How the world’s smelliest fruit could power your phone The lithium-ion batteries in our devices degrade over time and come with a large environmental cost. Are there better ways to store and carry...
In 2021, IRI’s flagship research program, Research on Research (ROR), turns 50. To commemorate 50 years of outstanding research in the field of innovation management, we will be featuring...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project: Strategic Challenges in R&D Management Research Initiative Previously the IRI completed a study to evaluate how the management of science and technology would change by the...
October 03, 2017
R&D Leaders Explore Findings from IRI’s Study into Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management FORT WORTH, TX (October 3, 2017) – As recruitment and retention of technical talent rises...
Wednesday April 22, 2020 1:00pm – 2:00pm
This session will explore the “collaboration competition” approach to breakthrough innovation, which brings together multiple teams of talent and expertise, from university and corporate backgrounds...
Monday May 08, 2017 – Thursday May 11, 2017
"R&D Beyond Four Walls" explores how organizations are pushing beyond the traditional value chain to adopt a more dynamic and integrated collaboration culture across the business enterprise.