Recently added articles from Research-Technology Management:
UK R&D collaboration venture takes innovation challenge to China.(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research--Technology Management Scene)(research and development)
Jul 01, 2008; Collins, Luke ... An ambitious program to help accelerate the rate at which R&D collaborations between the United Kingdom and China get commercialized has won government backing from both countries. The initiative is one of a number the UK government is undertaking to strengthen its research and business ...
Building a sustainable innovation cycle requires an enormous investment in R&D.(Tech Talk)(Research in Motion Ltd.)(Interview)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; Lazaridis, Mike ... "Building a sustainable innovation cycle requires an enormous investment in R&D. You have to understand all the ...
Where are all the high-leverage innovators?(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research--Technology Management Scene)(Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.)(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Tubbs, Michael ... Many studies have shown various positive relationships between R&D investment and business performance, and a summary of some of these together with new results was published recently in RTM (1). However, Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) surprised many industrialists with the assertion in their ...
Researchers invent something, demonstrate its feasibility, talk about commercializing it.(Tech Talk)(Quotation)
Jul 01, 2008; Gerstenberger, Julie ... "Researchers invent something, demonstrate its feasibility, talk about commercializing it .... But these days it's all in ...
MIT recruiting engineers for biomedical research.(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research--Technology Management Scene)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jul 01, 2008; Gwynne, Peter ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose graduates created a surge of new technology companies in the 1960s, has taken on a new entrepreneurial challenge: bringing together medical researchers and engineers in an effort to improve the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of cancer. In ...
"The golden age of space has only just begun.".(Tech Talk)(Quotation)
Jul 01, 2008; Clarke, Arthur ... "The golden age of space has only just begun."--Sir Arthur Clarke, interviewed by IEEE Spectrum's Saswato Das in January ...
U.S. federal R&D funding down.(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research--Technology Management Scene)
Jul 01, 2008 ... After adjusting for inflation, no growth is expected in federal obligations for basic research in the United States between FY 2004 and FY 2007, according to the latest survey by the National Science Foundation. This contrasts to FY 1998-2001 and 2001-04, when basic research obligations ...
Telecoms face disruptive innovators.(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research--Technology Management Scene)(Survey)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Telecommunications firms are increasingly embracing open innovation, a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit finds. Three-quarters of 327 senior executives worldwide polled in February agreed that the way they innovate today is significantly different from how they innovated a decade ...
For your calendar.(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research--Technology Management Scene)(Calendar)
Jul 01, 2008 ... * 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT 2008) takes place Sept. 21-24 In Bangkok. Details at ...
U.S. scientists and engineers.(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... March 15--Overall unemployment rate for U.S. scientists and engineers dropped from 3.2% ...
Salary offers.(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... April 16--Average salary offers for 2007-08 computer science grads rose 14.7% over Sping 2007 to $59,873, according ...
Singapore.
Jul 01, 2008 ... April 17--Singapore plans a S$350 million (165 million [euro]) national framework for ...
"Clean tech".
Jul 01, 2008 ... April 19--Venture capital firms invested $2.2 billion in "clean ...
Market factors, people skills and technological factors.(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... May 5--IBM's third global CEO survey finds 1,130 CEOs rated market factors, people skills and technological factors as the external forces with greatest ...
Make better business decisions.(ONE POINT OF VIEW)(Report)
Jul 01, 2008; Friga, Paul N. ... Decision-making in today's environment is difficult, and new managers in R&D and other technical positions are often shocked at the lack of systematic decision-making they find in their interactions with upper management and their peers in other parts of the organization. However, there is ...
The DNA of industrial competitors: a competitor's strategic moves and responses to a rival's actions are driven by the DNA embedded in its value creation activities.
Jul 01, 2008; Ho, Jonathan C. ... A systematic description of a competitor's strategy is fundamental to formulating a business strategy (1). However, strategy is studied through many lenses. A firm's competitive strategy greatly depends on its current positions, such as market share, capabilities and existing behavioral ...
Visualize your intellectual property: twelve visual constructs have been found over many years to best represent IP in a manner that allows its productive and proactive management.
Jul 01, 2008; Taylor, Ronald P. ... Robert J. Shapiro, former United States Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, recently detailed some startling facts about the value of intellectual property that are a radical departure from the situation 20 years ago (1). These changes underscore the need for solid management ...
Change: embrace it, don't deny it: tools and techniques inspired by software development can introduce the flexibility needed to make changes during product development with minimal disruption.
Jul 01, 2008; Smith, Preston G. ... Change from plans during a new-product development project is a topic that increasingly places developers and their managers in a dilemma. On the one hand, change is becoming increasingly commonplace. Customers, who are presented with more and more options today and can turn to the ...
Managing the unmanageable: research into bootleg research concludes that managers should leave creative processes in the underground world and formal processes in the official world.
Jul 01, 2008; Augsdorfer, Peter ... After more than 40 years' research, debate continues to rage on how to manage for true creativity and early innovation (1). Some recommend more structure, more planning and more control while others advocate greater creative freedom and a "laissez-faire" management approach; still others ...
Managing global design teams: a study of virtual design teams reinforces the importance of considering the strategic implications of creating such teams and, then, managing them with care.
Jul 01, 2008; Monalisa, Mitali ... A group of people huddled around a spider-like Polycom speakerphone or video screen for a meeting with colleagues in any number of remote locations has become a common sight in many offices (1). With access to advanced and varied technologies and means of communication, high-tech ...