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Marketing the value of R&D

eIQ: Profiting from Research and Development

eIQ, the EIRMA member magazine, reports on the world of business-oriented research and development and innovation and the public policy developments that affect these activities. This index lists all articles that have appeared in eIQ. Follow the [read] links to review individual articles and find related information on this website and elsewhere on the internet.

The main feature articles and management briefs relate the reported developments to the work of the industrial R&D manager, discuss the main issues faced by people who are active in the world of R&D and innovation management and explain the steps they are taking to ensure effectiveness and to present the value of their work.

Each article is available as a webpage and in high-quality pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. Use the checkboxes to select articles and create your own edition of eIQ as a pdf file, which you can download to print or send to your colleagues.

  

eIQ19 Spring 2010

Making partnerships work [read]
News: R&D managers outline top challenges for 2010 [read]
News: Scoreboard highlights impact of financial crisis on European innovation [read]
News: Climate change, sustainable energy and ICT get backing from European Institute of Innovation and Technology [read]
News: Europe should focus research on grand challenges, says Expert Group [read]
News: Responsible path to better relationships between industry and academia [read]
News: Obituary - Dr Andrew Dearing [read]
Feature: Making partnerships work [read]
Feature: Making the most of information and communications technologies [read]
Feature: Social networking tools for R&D [read]
Intellectual Property: Measuring the effectiveness of the intellectual property management function [read]
View from: From European research to value for Europe [read]
Country Profile: Spain [read]

eIQ18 Winter 2009

Preparing for a brighter future [read]
News: Pressure for European Research Area progress grows [read]
News: Making the best of a recession [read]
Feature: Sustaining long-term R&D strategies [read]
Feature: Open innovation and the value of place [read]
Feature: The evolving role of knowledge management in R&D organisations [read]
Feature: Exploiting the collective knowledge generated in project-based R&D [read]
Intellectual Property: IP systems after the crash [read]
View from: View from Manchester: Importance of location in developing an innovation culture [read]
View from: View from Eindhoven: A successful open innovation ecosystem around facilities provided by a large multinational [read]
View from: View from Europe: How innovation could lead us out of the economic crisis [read]
A day in the life of: Jacky Doumenjou: Knowledge manager and foresight bulletin co-ordinator at CRIGEN, GDF SUEZ [read]
Country Profile: Sweden [read]

eIQ17 Summer 2009

A bigger Europe in a smaller world [read]
News: EIT to spend a billion euros on 'interesting experiment' in commercialising R&D [read]
News: European business brings research spending home [read]
Feature: Time for change: The financial crisis, globalisation and demographic trends are making it increasingly difficult to sustain R&D in Western Europe [read]
Feature: Attracting young people into science and technology: How industry can help reverse the decline in the study of science and technology in the developed world [read]
Feature: Effective innovation management: Techniques for assessing and managing effectiveness [read]
Intellectual Property: Emerging IP policy at the European Institution of Innovation and Technology [read]
View from: The private sector: How the economic crisis may help start a shift to a more sustainable model of development [read]
View from: Europe's research policy makers: How Europe's R&D policies should change to meet the global economic crisis [read]
View from: Europe's innovation policy makers: Europe's progress in creating a more innovative economy, and what it ought to do next [read]
A day in the life of: Martin Navratil, Synpo: How a small R&D company in the Czech Republic can flourish by avoiding organisational overheads [read]
Country Profile: Hungary [read]
Country Profile: Hungary's innovative history [read]

eIQ16 Spring 2009

Introduction [read]
News: Open innovation challenges the role of CTOs, senior managers, and public policymakers, who will have to reconsider their approach to research, development and innovation as global open innovation networks emerge [read]
News: Rewards for innovation vary strongly by region [read]
News: Face to face with the globalisation of R&D in India [read]
News: Expert group calls for expanded Framework Programme to tackle economic crisis [read]
Feature: Translating science into innovation explores techniques to help translate results from outside an organisation into effective innovations within it [read]
Feature: Marketing the value of R&D within the organisation, through engagement with senior management and the business units, service provision and even self-promotion [read]
Intellectual Property: Aligning global IP strategies for open innovation ooks at some of the issues involved in developing consistent intellectual property policies in global multinationals [read]
View from: The innovation ecosystem at ARM [read]
View from: The public policy debate about open innovation [read]
A day in the life of: Wieke Boon, manager of continuous improvement at Corus RD&T [read]
Country Profile: India [read]

eIQ15 Winter 2008

Introduction [read]
News: Industry discusses keys to innovation and the European Research Area [read]
News: Rethinking doctoral training for life beyond academia [read]
News: China relies on people power for its position in science and technology [read]
News: Copenmind conference highlights the difficulty of being green [read]
Feature: Making the most of multiple cultures looks at the issues involved in running multicultural teams [read]
Feature: Competence mapping: keeping track of capabilities and skills [read]
Intellectual Property: How does Philips create a consistent global approach to IP [read]
View from: Corporate innovation - Embedding innovation throughout an organisation [read]
View from: The interface between public and private research - Understanding motivation helps collaboration between public and private research [read]
A day in the life of: Olivier Peyret, Schlumberger [read]
Country Profile: France [read]

eIQ14 Summer 2008

Introduction [read]
News: Industry benefits from search for the secrets of matter [read]
Country Profile: Switzerland [read]
View from: America - The greatest dangers in making science, technology and innovation policy lie in over-simplification [read]
View from: Switzerland - Switzerland sets innovation context, not direction [read]
Feature: Striking a balance in R&D portfolio management: dealing with the conflicting requirements of running a portfolio of projects for best short and long-term performance [read]
Feature: Sustainability: business threat or innovation driver? [read]
Feature: A rationale for the future of the European Research Area [read]
A day in the life of: Dr John Irven, Air Products [read]
Intellectual Property: IP's role in the Orange Innovation Bazaar. Does IP help or hinder open innovation? [read]

eIQ13 Spring 2008

News: EIRMA Global, Open Innovation Focus Group [read]
News: Cost of using European patents will fall thanks to France's ratification of the London Agreement [read]
Country Profile: Slovenia [read]
View from: Cambridge - The Cambridge area has become one of the world's best known innovation clusters. But what makes Cambridge, and clusters in general, work? [read]
View from: The clustering debate - Hubs, clusters, technopoles - whatever you call them, they are supposed to foster intense collaboration. But are there even more effective collaborative environments, and how would you recognise one? [read]
Feature: Revitalising Europe's pharmaceuticals sector. Europe's pharmaceutical sector has launched a joint initiative to overcome the worst bottlenecks in drug discovery. But its success requires that competitors collaborate effectively. What can others learn from their approach? [read]
Feature: The butterfly and the plough. This article looks at efforts to ease academic/industrial collaboration, including the Responsible Partnering initiative. [read]
Feature: The butterfly and the plough. Details on how the UK's Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme works, with examples of it in action. [read]
Feature: Making plans. This article discusses the factors making the R&D planning process more complex. It looks at a new funding mechanism from the European Investment Bank, and considers one company's efforts to improve its personnel planning. [read]
A day in the life of: Pascal Iris, managing director of Armines [read]
Intellectual Property: Innovation takes centre stage at the OECD, which is exploring the growing role of intellectual assets for value creation and the opportunities for new market mechanisms to realise the beneficial effects of intellectual property rights - and developing policies to reflect this. [read]

eIQ12 Winter 2007

News: Business boosts R&D investment [read]
News: Commission restructures research advisory board [read]
Country Profile: Portugal [read]
View from: Europe - The fine art of R&D policymaking [read]
View from: The past - History shows us that the amount which countries spend on R&D doesn't correlate with whether or not their economies thrive. So why do we still set such store by these statistics? [read]
Feature: Model behaviour. Businesses are eager to find new ways to operate, as well as new products and services to sell. What impact will this have on the R&D function, and how should it respond? [read]
Feature: The service innovation dilemma. Many Western manufacturing companies are now trying to develop services, in a bid to sustain their margins. But service innovation is little understood, and offers no guarantee of success. [read]
Feature: Orchestrating the future. How young managers can develop their communication and collaboration skills through participation in EIRMA activities. [read]
A day in the life of: Ellen de Brabander, vice president of research and development, board member, Intervet [read]

eIQ11 Summer 2007

News: European researchers' remuneration trails the US, Japan [read]
News: Scientific creativity needs connections, flexibility and time [read]
News: Innovation measures fail to report the whole truth [read]
Obituary: Reinhard Schulz [read]
Country Profile: The Netherlands [read]
View from: The Commission - The business case for the European Research Area [read]
View from: Technology transfer - Pricing risk can deliver new types of funding [read]
Feature: The future of innovation: What used to be a clearly defined process is being replaced with a complex web of relationships [read]
Feature: In vivo, in vitro, in silico: Rapid increases in computing power and rapid declines in the cost of robotics are opening up new avenues for experimentation and analysis [read]
Feature: The grail seeker who came good. How a Manchester University spin-off became a Silicon Valley star [read]
Intellectual property: Do rigorous schemes to manage contract and intellectual property help or hinder open innovation? [read]

eIQ10 Spring 2007

News: Evolution of corporate R&D is 'double whammy' for mid-sized firms [read]
News: Commission backs European Research Area [read]
News: Complex industry-academia negotiations spur US initiative [read]
Obituary: Alexander King, CMG CBE [read]
News: Quality of life angle to Millennium Technology Prize [read]
News: US companies focus research spending on collaborations that can enable new businesses [read]
Country Profile: Denmark [read]
View from: Europe - If Europeans cannot see that talented people will live where they can work as successfully as possible, none of the institutional reforms aimed at creating a knowledge economy here will matter. The best people will go elsewhere. It's that simple. [read]
View from: A start-up - It often takes an external actor to co-ordinate the kind of organisational changes that enable innovation in large companies [read]
Feature: Fostering creativity. Creativity is vital to discovery in research, and to the development effort that turns ideas into money through innovation. If it's so important, what can you do to nurture and sustain it in your organisation? [read]
Feature: Benchmarking. A meeting on measuring R&D processes delivered benchmark results that managers can use to assess their organisations. It also highlighted some emerging issues whose novelty, forward-looking nature or complexity means they are not, as yet, amenable to rigorous analysis. [read]
Feature: The new geography of science. How is the geography of science changing? The Demos thinktank spent 18 months interviewing more than 400 industrialists, academics and policy makers in China, India and South Korea, to understand how R&D will evolve. [read]
A day in the life of: Michael Gahagan, manager, Hazelwood Applied Sciences, Lubrizol [read]
Intellectual property: FP7 IP issues clarified [read]

eIQ09 Winter 2006

News: Finns push innovation deadlines [read]
News: Europe's research investment [read]
View from: Philanthropy - Charitable organisations fund 'difficult' R&D projects that may be too risky for businesses to back. If the results come good, charities are becoming increasingly sophisticated about working with business to exploit them for mutual benefit [read]
View from: Venture capital - How the venture capital community can help large companies make the most of their innovations. Clue: they're not going to pay for your R&D [read]
Feature: Revitalising European research careers. Europe trains lots of scientists but isn't very good at persuading them to move into research careers. What can be done to motivate these scientists to believe that life in industry will be interesting, varied and well paid, offering a wealth of opportunities at the cutting edge of knowledge and business? [read]
Feature: Achieving effectiveness in Framework Programme projects. There's more to being involved in a Framework Programme project than just getting the money. Marine Giraud of ALMA Consulting explains how to get the most out of participating in one of these projects [read]
Feature: Protecting service innovations. Some mature industries are recasting their offerings as services in the hope of restarting their growth. But how do they protect something as tenuous as a service from being copied by others? [read]
A day in the life of: David Brown, former head of the UK technology and innovation management practice at Arthur D Little CEO of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers [read]
Intellectual Property: Europe needs a simpler and more cost-effective intellectual property regime. Here's some steps legislators should take on the way to that goal [read]
Country Profile: Germany [read]

eIQ08 Summer 2006

News: Walloon government backs Responsible Partnering [read]
News: Little man wins big - again [read]
View from: The past - One of the founding members of EIRMA reflects on a career in which he faced many of the same issues which trouble today's research managers [read]
View from: The future - Computer science will soon bring new tools and concepts to bear that could lead to entirely new scientific disciplines and their related industries, markets and jobs [read]
Feature: Reshaping Europe. Innovation's strategic importance to Europe's future is beginning to be reflected in Commission policy, attendees at the European Business Summit heard [read]
Feature: Forward the revolution. Shifts in population, resources and environmental management, technology, knowledge flow, economic integration, conflict and governance are set to revolutionise the way we carry out R&D over the next 20 years [read]
Feature: Time to change - before it's too late. Europe needs to change its attitudes to R&D if it is to protect the continent's comfortable lifestyle and social provisions [read]
A day in the life of: Merete Fargemand, Group manager, Danisco Innovation Bioscience [read]
Intellectual Property: The European Commission is considering a scheme to make patent insurance more widely available. What would happen if it were introduced? [read]
Country Profile: Poland [read]

eIQ07 Spring 2006

Feature: Home sweet home? If you believe that the most successful technology-led companies will be those who make best use of all the resources at their disposal, then it's obviously important where they locate their research facilities. [read]
Feature: Listening to the neighbours. What can one country learn from another about innovation? This feature looks at innovation in various companies around the world and asks what lessons Europe can draw from their experiences. [read]
View from: Europe - The latest report on European innovation calls for bold action if R&D is going to help sustain the regional economy. [read]
View from: Singapore - Singapore is making substantial efforts to develop its R&D base, but must overcome cultural issues before it can flourish as an innovation-led economy. [read]
Feature: The acquisitive spirit. As companies refine their organisations to focus on what they do best, the question of whether to make or buy research breakthroughs is coming sharply into focus. [read]
A day in the life of: Fernando Conesa, Deputy director, Centre for innovation, research and technology transfer, Polytechnic University of Valencia. [read]
Intellectual Property: Facing the challenges of Asian patent applications. [read]
Country Profile: Austria [read]

IQ06 Spring 2006

2005 Annual Conference Issue: Bringing Ideas to Market. Software Patents, Day in the Life of Claus Weyrich, Siemens, Country Profile on Israel [read]

IQ05 Summer 2005

Views from India and China; Portfolio management; Service-oriented R&D; Working with MIT; Internal management of IP assets; Country Profile on Finland; Day in life of Dorothea Wiesman, IBM [read]

IQ04 Spring 2005

Engaging with public opinion; Technology transfer from the founder of NASDAQ; Change management in R&D; Country Profile on Ireland; View from Japan; Day in the life of Marion Brax, Willems and van den Wildenberg [read]

IQ03 Winter 2004

Assessing R&D effectiveness; Reinventing Europe by Commissioner Potocnik; Patents at your service; Day in the life of Andrea Cuomo, ST Microelectronics [read]

IQ02 Autumn 2004

Enabling entrepreneurship; Opening up the IP strategy P&G's way; Day in the life of Emmo Meijer, DSM [read]

IQ01 Spring 2004

Global R&D; Open science to open innovation; Why patent quality matters; Day in the life of Markus Bayegan, ABB [read]