Research and Development
Cam Mackey |
10/01/2012 |
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According to research by consultant Booz, companies that directly engage their customers in innovation have superior results, including 300% higher operating income growth, 65% higher total shareholder return, and 200% higher return on assets. But what are some tactics that industrial companies can use to work more closely with customers throughout the innovation process? To answer that question, MAPI recently held a webinar looking at how...
Donald W. Westfall |
09/04/2012 |
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Item: A former SEAL using “Mark Owen” as his nom de plume (or is it de guerre?) has written a book called No Easy Day about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Publication is strategically scheduled for next week – September 11 actually – but plenty of people have read it already. And it’s given lawyers at the Pentagon some ferocious heartburn. The Associated Press reports via Fox News:
The general counsel of the Defense Department, Jeh...
Categories: Business Management, Intellectual Property, Patents, Research and Development
Donald W. Westfall |
05/23/2012 |
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Earlier this week Future Tense, a cooperative venture between the New America Foundation, the on-line magazine Slate, and Arizona State University, held an event called “Can We Save America’s R&D System?” I saw an article about the program just a couple of days after returning from a meeting of MAPI's Engineering, Research & Development Council. Needless to say, the MAPI meeting, which focused on the processes and practices that make R...
Categories: Innovation, Patents, Research and Development