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Highlighting useful research, tools and case-studies for practitioners and R&D managers. If you have something good to share get in contact. Outreach for RADMA https://www.rndtoday.co.uk/
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The #rnd2025 conference has started well!
Innovation is celebrated as the engine of progress: transforming industries, improving lives, fuelling imagination. But just focussing on what works is not always helpful, says Arianna Martinelli, chair of track 7.3 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference #rnd2025.
Fail it till you make it: Learning from failure and innovative activities | R&D Today
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…
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Women in top positions may have a positive effect on a firm’s sustainability (@springernature.com). But do companies with sustainable practices also value greater diversity in snr. management? Track 7.4 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference explores: buff.ly/71xgli5
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“Biodiversity loss represents one of the most pressing and complex challenges of our time, impacting ecosystems, livelihoods, and businesses,” says Francesco Testa, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, the chair of track 1.5 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference #rnd2025. buff.ly/56MzbXU
AI Foundation Models offer the potential to reduce the cost and time to market of new products and services, says Vito Giordano (University of Pisa), chair of Track 8.2 at at the 2025 R&D Management Conference #rnd2025.
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“Sustainability is essential for the Global South, where socio-economic growth faces obstacles like resource scarcity and infrastructure challenges,” says Fabio Iannone (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), chair of Track 6.6 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference.
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"A widely held misbelief is that making a zero-carbon version of the same thing is inevitably going to increase the cost of production. Well, that’s why we’re in the business of innovation – to find a way to do it better." Steve Evans @ifmcambridge.bsky.social @R&D
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Industrial sustainability – an interview with Professor Steve Evans | R&D Today
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
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Open Social Innovation brings together different actors from diverse sectors in new ways: identify a problem, create potential solutions, scale outcomes, says Maria Isabella Leone, chair of track 6.1 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference. #rnd2025
Open social innovation for a next generation of public governance | R&D Today
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.
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Have you booked your place at ‘AI For Innovation’? Hear from Andy Walker (TTP), Patrick Gormley (Kyndryl), Robert Cooper (@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social), Carsten Welsch (LIV.INNO), and @sanakb.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) + industry case studies. bit.ly/ai-for-innovation-summit.
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The deadline for RADMA’s May Postgraduate Student Research Support is the 30th April – submit your applications for project support or conference attendance funding by next week.
Read about experiences of RADMA-funded students on R&D Today: www.rndtoday.co.uk/radma-schola...
RADMA Scholars | R&D Today
RADMA provides support to talented mid-study Masters and PhD students under its Postgraduate Student Research Support Programme.
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Extracting real-time insights from market data can drive competitive advantage. Machine learning and AI offer particular benefits for this type of application and IQBlade investigated its potential with a PhD student from LIV.INNO.
IQBlade automates data classification for market insights | R&D Today
Extracting real-time insights from market data can drive competitive advantage. IQBlade investigated the potential of AI and machine learning with a PhD student.
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The possibilities for AI in product development are significant, but there is a huge amount of hesitancy over adoption. Dr Robert Cooper, stage-gate pioneer, outlines the opportunities. Bob will be speaking at a LIV.INNO event on 7 May, AI For Innovation: bit.ly/ai-for-innovation-summit
In April’s Newsletter: exploring the impact and opportunities of AI for Innovation, with Andy Walker of TTP, Ben Abraham of IQBlade, and Robert G Cooper. Plus: preparing to celebrate Henry Chesbrough’s 70th birthday!
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R&D Today April 2025
“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...
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The business model innovation perspective provides a holistic approach to organisational innovation that helps to keep the big picture in mind, observes Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel) chair of track 3.1 at the 2025 R&D Management Conference. #rnd2025
Business models and business model innovation | R&D Today
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…
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A new AI tool to identify irrelevant references in submitted manuscripts has been launched for use across Springer Nature’s journals and books.

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“This topic reflects the growing complexity and interconnectedness of entrepreneurial and innovation processes,” say the chairs of Track 5.5 'Nestedness between Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems' at the 2025 R&D Management Conference.
Nestedness between entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems: unpacking theoretical and empirical overlaps | R&D Today
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…
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