Authors: Jelinek, Mariann; Bean, Alden S.; Antcliff, Richard; Whalen-Pedersen, Erik; Cantwell, April

Source: Research-Technology Management, Volume 55, Number 1, January-February 2012 , pp. 16-26(11)

Publisher: Industrial Research Institute, Inc

Abstract:

OVERVIEW: In May 2007, Richard Antcliff challenged IRI members with a presentation asserting the notion that “three tsunamis“ were about to break upon R&D managers, demanding urgent response. Technological exponentials, global demographic shifts, and the phenomenon of climate change all posed challenges that promised to transform R&D. How are R&D managers responding to the perfect storm created by those tsunamis? Survey results and interviews of managers at nearly 60 IRI-member companies revealed a range of responses. Open innovation, globally dispersed R&D operations, and an emphasis on collaboration suggest that the R&D lab of the future is far less likely to be “a lab“ (especially a single, central corporate lab) than an intricate, dynamic innovation ecosystem. Not only R&D managers, but senior executives and government policy makers as well will have new roles to map in this model for twenty-first-century R&D.

Keywords: Research-on-Research; Lab of the Future; Future of R&D; R&D strategy

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5437/08956308X5501011

Publication date: 2012-01-01

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