R&D

Businesses must thoroughly evaluate the risk of deploying a new technology to avoid reputational and financial damage.

Learn how deep-tech startups in materials, biology, energy, and computing can help enterprise innovation efforts.

Image- and text-generation tools are helping innovation groups improve ideation and creativity and gain market insights.

Executives who lead research and innovation are well placed to help their companies cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Many R&D employees pursue underground side projects. Surfacing such innovations can reap benefits for their employers.

Rethinking assumptions about customer wants, improving the R&D process for new projects, and addressing data challenges.

Make better choices about which R&D projects gain funding by managing bias and involving more people.

New technologies can help solve critical global problems in energy, medicine, and urban planning.

The race to develop treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19 highlights the value of repurposing solutions.

Pharma’s existing model may be a liability in the race to develop drugs and vaccines to combat COVID-19.

Pioneering leaders roll up their sleeves, create, and stay relevant.

Health care consumers are contributing their skills, money, and time to develop effective solutions.

Thousands of emerging innovators in China pose a threat to established multinationals.

In the consumer goods industry, small R&D bets often outperform big ones.

How organizations can improve task flow and prevent overload.

Foreign companies must retool their R&D strategies to keep pace with newly innovative Chinese enterprises.

Many companies overlook the potential of new applications for products they have sold for years.

New markets for judgment bridge critical gaps between scientific breakthroughs and commercial markets.

When it comes to patent policies, the U.S. system is not broken — so lawmakers shouldn’t fix it.

While U.S. research efforts are rising substantially, research productivity is sharply declining.