The R&D Project Exchange offers a unique platform for collaboration between university students and companies. This initiative invites students and businesses to co-develop research proposals, ensuring a balanced approach that addresses both academic objectives and real-world industry challenges.

There is a disconnect between R&D spend and performance, says Professor Magnus Karlsson. Ahead of the launch of the international standard ISO 56000 he explains that the purpose of an Innovation Management System is to improve an organisation’s ability to realise value under conditions of uncertainty. 

The challenge of how Innovation Management can gain the recognition it deserves stimulated a lively discussion in our webinar “Is it time to professionalise Innovation Management”. If you missed the webinar – you can watch the presentations from our two speakers and listen to the full discussion via a podcast on Soundcloud.

Innovation is the driving force for companies to stay relevant in the market, observes the guidance for ISO 56002:2019 Innovation management system.

The innovation management professional job role is broad. It encompasses both strategic and operational elements. These elements can be combined into a single role, or divided into separate roles. Innovationsledarna has created this useful job description that can be used as a guide to assembling one’s own job description or to create a new role as appropriate.

Innovation is the force behind superior business performance and its managers provide this competitive advantage through their skills and expertise. But is it a profession?

To increase the professional standing of innovation managers, the Innovationsledarna has developed a voluntary certification based on a ‘Body of Knowledge’ and ISO/IEC 17024:2012.

Is it possible for the entrepreneurial spirit of the business start-up to be successful within or alongside the business process orientated machinery of a large enterprise? This is the ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ as described by Clayton Christensen

How do you sustain breakthrough innovation? Gina O’Connor describes how a framework based on Domains of Innovation Intent can maintain true strategic innovation.

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.