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Innovators Summit 2026 Sessions
Audio recordings and video of the panels will be available in podcast form shortly. At Innovators Summit 2026, IRI brought together industry leaders to share practical strategies and forward-thinking insights that helped attendees prepare for the next wave of innovation. The event equipped participants with tools to navigate emerging challenges, drive sustainable growth, and strengthen […]
Presentation
Innovation, Enhance Sustainability, Artificial Intellegence, Transformation, Knowledge Transfer, R&D, Tools and Techniques
05/06/2026
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How do you build and maintain a database to track your organization’s university engagements?
A: How do you build and maintain a database to track your organization’s university engagements? Please find below the responses to this week’s IRI Community Forum Survey. Thank you to those who took the time to add their input! From an IRI member: We are looking to understand how companies are building and maintaining university engagement databases for […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Tools and Techniques
04/17/2026
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How do you manage the use of prototyping and measure its success?
A: How do you manage the use of prototyping and measure its success? Please find below the responses to this week’s IRI Community Forum Survey. Thank you to those who took the time to add their input! From an IRI member: We are looking to understand how companies are using prototypes successfully. We would love to […]
Survey (Community Forum)
New Product Development
03/27/2026
Innovation Research Interchange
AI at the Frontier of Scientific Innovation: From Algorithms in Nature to Digitizing Smell
Presentation with Saket Navlakha March 2026 Join Saket Navlakha, Associate Professor at the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, for a fascinating discussion on how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research and innovation. From his pioneering work on “algorithms in nature” to co-founding Knose.AI—a start-up digitizing smell—Navlakha shares how AI has accelerated […]
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Innovation, Artificial Intellegence
03/26/2026
Innovation Research Interchange
The Innovation Challenge to Advantage Series: How Milliken Connects Portfolio Strategy and Project Execution
Innovation leaders today face the dual challenge of delivering strong near-term results while nurturing a pipeline of longer-term, higher-uncertainty opportunities. This balance plays out at the intersection of project execution, portfolio decision-making, and innovation culture, where thoughtfully designed processes support meaningful impact. Milliken & Company has approached this challenge by connecting disciplined project management with […]
Report
Innovation, Tools and Techniques
03/20/2026
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How do you document AI interactions during the inventive process?
A: How do you document AI interactions during the inventive process? Please find below the responses to this week’s IRI Community Forum Survey. Thank you to those who took the time to add their input! From an IRI member: We are looking for ways to document and track the contributions of AI systems during the technical ideation process. We would […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Artificial Intellegence
03/06/2026
Innovation Research Interchange
From Bits to Atoms: Managing the Deep Tech Renaissance
This editorial examines the shift in innovation management from software-based models toward deep tech and science-based industries such as advanced manufacturing, energy, and biotechnology. It argues that traditional digital-era approaches, including rapid iteration and minimum viable product thinking, are often inadequate for physical-world innovation, where technical risk, capital intensity, and system integration play a much […]
RTM Publication
R&D, Technology Roadmapping
03/03/2026
Yat Ming Ooi
The Next Renaissance: Reasons for AI Optimism
This interview presents an optimistic but practical perspective on artificial intelligence, arguing that AI has the potential to drive a new era of abundance, creativity, and scientific progress. Zack Kass suggests that, like the Renaissance, AI could catalyze broad transformation across industries and society by expanding human capability, accelerating discovery, and helping solve large-scale economic […]
RTM Publication
Artificial Intellegence
03/03/2026
Jim Euchner et al.
Catalyzing Regional Innovation Ecosystems to Address Global Challenges: Toward the Fourth-Generation University?
The fourth-generation university (4GU) represents a fundamental shift in how universities engage with innovation ecosystems. While entrepreneurial universities emphasize commercialization and direct economic engagement, 4GUs explicitly organize their teaching, research, and valorization activities around societal transformation missions while orchestrating regional innovation ecosystems. For R&D managers, this transition creates new strategic opportunities: Small and medium-sized enterprises […]
RTM Publication
Innovation
03/03/2026
Marcel L. A. M. Bogers et al.
Turning the EU’s Right-to-Repair into Licensing Advantage: A Playbook for Corporate Innovators
The European Union’s Right-to-Repair (R2R) Directive mandates that manufacturers provide consumers with a standardized European Repair Information Form before finalizing a repair contract, with the offer remaining valid for at least 30 days. This requirement not only ensures compliance but also alters how firms design products, manage intellectual property, and capture service revenue. This article presents […]
RTM Publication
IP Management
03/03/2026
Robin Kleer
Orchestrating Networks for Radical Innovation: The Moderating Effect of Network Routines
While innovation networks facilitate radical innovation, they also introduce coordination challenges, conflicting goals, and management inefficiencies. This study examines how firms can proactively orchestrate their networks to address these issues. Using survey data from 374 Chinese firms, we find that two orchestration mechanisms, knowledge mobility and innovation appropriation, have significant positive effects on radical innovation, […]
RTM Publication
Innovation
03/03/2026
Robin Kleer
AI Powers Agriculture 4.0
This article examines how artificial intelligence is driving the next phase of agricultural innovation, often described as Agriculture 4.0. It explains how AI, sensors, machine vision, drones, satellites, and other digital tools are helping farmers and agricultural researchers improve productivity, reduce waste, and respond more effectively to challenges such as climate change, labor shortages, disease, […]
RTM Publication
Innovation
03/03/2026
Robin Kleer