Innovation Tools – Catalyzing Their Adoption
- Resource Type
- Audio Presentation/Podcast
- Publish Date
- 08/28/2025
- Author
- Innovation Research Interchange
- Topics
- Innovation, Tools and Techniques, Tools for success
- Associated Event
- Webinar: Innovation Tools – Catalyzing Their Adoption
Presentation with Dr. Julie S. Linsey, Dr. Michael Helms, and Kristoffer Sjolund
August 2025
R&D organizations rely on a complex mix of tools to accelerate innovation, from foundational AI platforms to design thinking practices and stage-gate methods like patent mining. Yet adoption of new tools is often uneven, with murky ROI and cultural resistance.
What drives successful adoption—and what holds it back? This webinar shares early findings from interviews across three major R&D organizations, highlighting the key catalysts and barriers at management, organizational, and individual levels. Participants will gain insights into which factors matter most for adoption and be invited to reflect on how these lessons apply to their own organizations, while shaping future research that delivers value to the innovation community.
Dr. Julie S. Linsey is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the of the Innovation, Design Reasoning, Engineering Education, and Methods (IDREEM) Lab. Her research seeks to understand designers’ cognitive processes with the goal of creating better tools and approaches to enhance engineering innovation and education. She has authored over 200 technical publications, including over fifty journal papers, ten book chapters, and she holds two patents.
Dr. Michael Helms is the Sr. Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Kristoffer Sjolund is a PhD candidate in the G.W.W. School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology