Practical application of a parallel research-business innovation process to accelerate the deployment of research results

Authors: Koppinen, Seija; Lammasniemi, Jorma; Kalliokoski, Petri

Source: R&D Management, Volume 40, Number 1, January 2010 , pp. 101-106(6)

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Abstract:

Both society and customers pose many new challenges for public research and technology organisations. Making the right long-term technological choices, generating and maintaining an appropriate research portfolio, speeding-up innovation processes and integrating customer and market needs into science-based research are among the major expectations. We describe how a multidisciplinary research organisation has implemented new processes and practises to rise to these challenges. The paper points out the benefits of using a parallel research approach to the business innovation process, where the different phases - the development of new technology, applications and business models - are carried out interactively and concurrently. Furthermore, we show how foresighting acitivities, research portfolio management and use of business plans for long-term research programmes contribute to the parallel research process.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9310.2009.00587.x

Affiliations: 1: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Vuorimiehentie 3, Espoo, PO Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland. ; jorma.lammasniemi@vtt.fi; petri.kalliokoski@vtt.fi, Email: seija.koppinen@vtt.fi

Publication date: 2010-01-01