AgriSound’s innovative approach combines acoustic technology with environmental sensors to help its clients monitor pollinator activity and biodiversity.

How can biodiversity inspire innovation? Speakers from Enel Green Power, 3Bee and Aboca share perspectives on sustainable business models in the industry panel

For every gleaming success story, there is a long trail of failed attempts, abandoned plans, and unrealised ambition, but there is rarely the opportunity to gain learning from failure, observes…

There is a growing realisation that while open innovation (OI) is good for business it can also help to address the ‘Grand Challenges’, and benefit social and environmental sustainability, observes…

Industry 5.0 with its requirement for stakeholder collaboration has an impact on the field of intellectual property, comments Sevim Süzeroglu-Melchiors, from the Faculty of Business and Management at…

The concept of just and twin transitions brings together the ‘Just Transition’ Mechanism, an EU initiative to support regions, industries, and communities heavily dependent on fossil fuels to make…

If you're in R&D management and you're ignoring industrial sustainability, you are limiting your future job prospects. Steve Evans discusses the role of value

Open Social Innovation is about new ways to bring together different actors from diverse sectors – to identify the problem, creating and prototyping potential solutions, and then scaling the outcomes.

There is no turning away from Net Zero - it is the future, and where prosperity lies, and industry leaders are recognising the opportunities offered by the transition to low-carbon.

An estimated 70% of new product developments never become a commercial success; it's time to apply the power of AI for new product development says Robert Cooper

Increasingly a mission-oriented approach to research and development is being used to address global grand challenges. Ana Paula Paes Leme Barbosa, chair of track 6.4 at the 2025 R&D Management…

RADMA provides support to talented mid-study Masters and PhD students under its Postgraduate Student Research Support Programme.

Extracting real-time insights from market data can drive competitive advantage. IQBlade investigated the potential of AI and machine learning with a PhD student.

AI generated digital twins have the potential to transform product innovation and development. The emergence of ‘Physical AI’ offers a potential step change for new product development, according to…

“What impact will AI have on my business, and where is the biggest opportunity for gain?” These are the big questions challenging those tasked with innovation strategy and new product development acro...

The business model innovation (BMI) perspective provides a holistic approach to organisational innovation that helps to keep the big picture in mind, observes Patrick Spieth, chair of track 3.1 at…

Developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem, where the new ventures are supported by a network of other entrepreneurs and independent actors – individuals, organisations, institutions – is considered a…

Valentina Re discusses her role in the preparations for the R&D Management Conference and how best practice is shared to make it an amazing event.

“We aim to better understand which type of innovation risks really increase with AI, and how they can be attenuated,” comments Petra Nylund chair of track 2.9 at the R&D Management Conference 2025.

By leveraging its 'buyer-driven' powers to impose sustainability standards on its suppliers and supply chains, IKEA is able to drive change.

The benefits of a new technology are always difficult to predict, but early adopters of artificial intelligence report increased innovation as the greatest benefit, with some achieving a 50% reduction...

By focusing on the intersection of emotional intelligence, personality traits, and creativity, track 7.7 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference highlights how these factors influence not only…

In his entertaining book, Tim Minshall explains how huge inefficiencies in each of the make, move and consume stages of the manufacturing process are not sustainable, but then reveals how looking at…

Are you ready for Web 3.0? Francesco Fasano from University of Calabria is chair of track 2.2 Web 3.0 and Sustainability, discussing the opportunities and challenges of the next generation of the…

Product recalls are on the rise, as supply chains become more globalised and products subject to rapid technological change, risks to product safety intensify

Integrated thinking has been described by the IFRS Foundation as a strategic planning tool for boards and management that helps embed sustainable business practices into an organisation and provides…

Now more than ever we need fresh thinking to create a more sustainable world.

R&D Controlling and Performance Management Conference (12 - 14 March 2025, Paris, France) will explore different approaches to optimizing resource allocation, leveraging digital transformation, and dr...

“AI technologies, such as computer vision, machine learning, and IoT, offer powerful tools to advance ecosystem monitoring, environmental assessments, and biodiversity management in ways that were…

Given the urgency of addressing biodiversity loss and the role of innovation ecosystems in sustainable development, understanding network science is both timely and highly relevant.

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Companies introduce the arts, not just as an organisational and management initiative but also as an experience-based process that will provide enjoyment and drive value to the business. How do you…

In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, knowledge is the only sure source of lasting competitive advantage. If knowledge is a company asset then how do you measure its acquisition and v...

"Addressing the skills gap is critical as it can slow industrial transformation," comments Nadine Roijakkers of the Faculty of Beta Sciences at Open Universiteit, and chair of track 4.6 of the R&D Man...

The ability to measure value created through innovation at a macro-level, would make it possible to assess to contribution of government policy to the stimulation of innovation and the value created b...

30 June - 2 July 2025, Institute of Management of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

How do you measure the value created by innovation when it is at an early stage, and has not yet produced products or services that can be monetarised?