eIQ: Profiting from Research and Development
eIQ, the EIRMA member magazine, provides news and insight into the world of business-oriented research and development and innovation and public policy developments that affect these activities. Longer features relate these developments to the work of the R&D manager and discuss the main issues faced by people who are active in this world. Each article provides links to more detailed information on the EIRMA website and elsewhere on the internet. eIQ began in 2004 as Innovation Quarterly, a print-based magazine for EIRMA members and changed into this e-Zine format in 2006.
Use the menu on the left to explore each edition of eIQ and read earlier print-based magazines. Alternatively, scan the thematic sections below or use the search box on the right to find articles of interest.
Feature articles
Striking a balance in R&D portfolio management (2008)
Sustainability: business threat or innovation driver? (2008)
A rationale for the future of the European Research Area (2008)
Revitalising Europe's pharmaceuticals sector. (2008)
The butterfly and the plough: Efforts to ease academic/industrial collaboration, including the Responsible Partnering initiative. (2008)
The butterfly and the plough: Details on how the UK's Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme works, with examples of it in action. (2008)
Making plans: Factors making the R&D planning process more complex, a new funding mechanism from the European Investment Bank, and one company's efforts to improve its personnel planning. (2008)
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? (2008)
The service innovation dilemma. Many companies are trying to develop services, but service innovation is little understood, and offers no guarantee of success. (2008)
Orchestrating the future. How young managers can develop their communication and collaboration skills through participation in EIRMA activities. (2008)
The future of innovation. (2007)
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. (2007)
The grail seeker who came good. How a Manchester University spin-off became a Silicon Valley star (2007)
Fostering creativity. Creativity is vital to discovery in research, and to the development effort that turns ideas into money through innovation. What can you do to nurture and sustain it in your organisation? (2007)
Benchmarking R&D processes and emerging issues whose novelty, forward-looking nature or complexity means they are not, as yet, amenable to rigorous analysis. (2007)
The new geography of science. How R&D will evolve in China, India and South Korea. (2007)
Revitalising European research careers. What can be done to motivate scientists to believe that life in industry will be interesting, varied and well paid? (2006)
Achieving effectiveness in Framework Programme projects. (2006)
Protecting service innovations. (2006)
Reshaping Europe. Innovation’s strategic importance to Europe’s future is beginning to be reflected in Commission policy (2006)
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 (2006)
Europe needs to change its attitudes to R&D if it is to protect the continent’s comfortable lifestyle and social provisions (2006)
Where the most successful technology-led companies will locate their research facilities. (2006)
What can one country learn from another about innovation? Looks at innovation in various companies around the world and asks what lessons Europe can draw from their experiences. (2006)
Make or buy. 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. (2006)
Policy Perspectives
View from America: The greatest dangers in making science, technology and innovation policy lie in over-simplification (2008)
View from Switzerland: Switzerland sets innovation context, not direction (2008)
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? (2008)
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? (2008)
View from Europe: The fine art of R&D policymaking (2007)
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? (2007)
View from The Commission: The business case for the European Research Area (2007)
View from Technology transfer: Pricing risk can deliver new types of funding (2007)
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. (2007)
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 (2007)
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 (2006)
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 (2006)
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 (2006)
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 (2006)
View from Europe: The latest report on European innovation calls for bold action if R&D is going to help sustain the regional economy. (2006)
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. (2006)
"A Day in the life of" : How People are Dealing with Main Issues Faced in their Work
Day in the life of John Irven, Air Products (2008)
Day in the life of Pascal Iris, Managing Director, Armines (2008)
Day in the life of Ellen de Brabander, vice-president R&D, Intervet (2007)
Day in the life of Michael Gahagan, manager, Hazelwood Applied Sciences, Lubrizol (2007)
Day in the life of David Brown, formerly AD Little, CEO of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers (2006)
Day in the life of Merete Fargemand, Group manager, Danisco Innovation Bioscience (2006)
Day in the life of Fernando Conesa, Deputy director, Centre for innovation, research and technology transfer, Polytechnic University of Valencia. (2006)
Obituary, Reinhard Schulz (2007)
Obituary, Alexander King, CMG CBE (2007)
Intellectual Property
IP’s role in the Orange Innovation Bazaar. Does IP help or hinder open innovation? (2008)
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. (2008)
Intellectual property: Do rigorous schemes to manage contract and intellectual property help or hinder open innovation? (2007)
FP7 IP issues clarified (2007)
Europe needs a simpler and more cost-effective intellectual property regime. Here's some steps legislators should take on the way to that goal (2006)
The European Commission is considering a scheme to make patent insurance more widely available. What would happen if it were introduced? (2006)
Facing the challenges of Asian patent applications. (2006)
Country Profiles
Switzerland (2008)
Slovenia (2008)
The Netherlands (2007)
Denmark (2007)
Portugal (2007)
Austria (2006)
Germany (2006)
Poland (2006)
News Articles : Up-to-date information affecting business R&D
Industry benefits from search for the secrets of matter (2008)
EIRMA Global, Open Innovation Focus Group (2008)
Cost of using European patents will fall thanks to France's ratification of the London Agreement (2008)
Business boosts R&D investment (2008)
Commission restructures research advisory board (2008)
European researchers' remuneration trails the US, Japan (2007)
Scientific creativity needs connections, flexibility and time (2007)
Innovation measures fail to report the whole truth (2007)
Evolution of corporate R&D is 'double whammy' for mid-sized firms (2007)
Commission backs European Research Area (2007)
Complex industry-academia negotiations spur US initiative (2007)
Quality of life angle to Millennium Technology Prize (2007)
US companies focus research spending on collaborations that can enable new businesses (2007)
Finns push innovation deadlines (2006)
Europe's research investment (2006)
Walloon government backs Responsible Partnering (2006)
Little man wins big – again (2006)