Agile can be defined as a capability – a rapid response to turbulent markets, changing business requirements and advances in technology. Although more widely discussed in the context of the software industry, researchers Alexander Kock and Andre Meier identified a growing phenomenon for R&D Units to adopt agile principles.

Applying traditional product development metrics in the early stages of a radical innovation project can be very damaging. They are based on the assumption that the alternative is the status quo, however a more realistic scenario is a deteriorating competitive and financial future. 

Oceania researchers involved in exciting research on R&D and innovation management, strategy, and policy are to benefit from a new R&D Management Workshop 2024 in Australia

In 2020, R&D Management journal celebrated 50 years of publication. Co-Editor Paavo Ritala conducted a comprehensive analysis of the journal’s past five decades and looked towards the future in the R&D management field.

Development of the circular economy is stalling, according to Benito Mignacca, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. He argues that a lack of collaboration between key players is hindering the transition to more sustainable development and that greater adoption of open innovation strategies could increase the uptake of re-use initiatives.

The rapid digitisation of services during Covid now means that it is not possible to fully participate in the socioeconomic community without a smartphone, resulting in the disenfranchisement of sections of the population.

An exclusive range of sunglasses promoted at the 2020 Tomorrowland festival were produced from recycled bottles and created using 3D printers by Yuma Labs. The intersection between digital technologies and the circular economy is the theme for an R&D Management Special Issue.

Do you want to get published? Then keep it original and appropriate for the readership of the journal. Editors from a range of prestigious publications gave their advice at the R&D Management Conference 2022 and a number of common themes emerged.

Leading journals will be participating in the tracks at the R&D Management Conference and several have special issues based on the theme of the track.

There are four broad themes and 38 tracks planned for the three days.

Traditional organizations start to face diseconomies of scale, scope, and learning as they grow. You know the stuff. But AI allows the modern giga-platform companies to grow at unprecedented pace and the it seems that there are very little limits to scalability. Read the book to understand why!

R&D Management has announced its two new Co-Editors-in-Chief Alberto Di Minin and Paavo Ritala, they are supported by an editorial team with significant experience in both academic and commercial spheres of R&D and technology management.

An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (EE) is known to stimulate entrepreneurship, innovation and technological development. The R&D Management journal has opened a special issue call for papers on this topic to explore their role in technological and social change.

Choosing the best conference papers from the R&D Management Symposium was a difficult job says Dr Lawrence Dooley, University of Cork, one of the judging panel that also included Prof Ellen Enkel University of Duisberg, Essen, Dr Letizia Mortara, University of Cambridge and Prof Paavo Ritala 

“We are reviewing how innovative SME’s have changed their strategies over the last 100 days, says Alberto Di Minin. “This has given me hope.” As Europe adapts to the ‘new normal’ there is evidence that knowledge-based companies are rising to the challenges.

The sustainability of the media industry is one of the issues that is of interest to Paavo Ritala, Professor of Strategy & Innovation at LUT University. The COVID-19 crisis has shown that information provider and ‘watch-dog’  are among the many roles that that media has. Paavo talks about his research interests and his current project #MediaContradictions.

The current global challenge has provoked interesting approaches to innovation – from collaborative working and open innovation, to crowdsourcing and repurposing of labs and equipment. If you have some interesting examples – then R&D Management has a call for papers for its special issue

Innovation for sustainability is a way for firms to improve their competitiveness while also facilitating the greater good – but both facilitating and constraining forces are at play for businesses to actually adopt such a role.

How could open innovation (OI) collaborative practices provide a way to tackle the world’s most pressing societal challenges – eradication of disease? Reduction of carbon emissions?  Creation of more sustainable products and services? A special issue of R&D Management investigates this proposition from a number of perspectives and provides insights into how current open innovation […]

Your approach to Open Innovation should be defined by the corporate strategy, say Professor Ellen Enkel. A defender’s strategy needs a different approach to a prospector and culture will eat strategy for breakfast if you don’t selected the right people. She gives her 5 tips for success.