Scientific research that eventually leads to new products in pharma, energy, biotechnology, aerospace, agriculture and other industries can take more than a decade from ideation to product distribution. Then in we participated in the 2007 an evaluative study “ Effectiveness of ICT RTD Impacts on the EU Innovation System” conducted for the European Commission, DG INFSO Evaluation and Monitoring Unit, by ALTEC SA and Edna Pasher PhD & Associates under the direction of Peter Johnston, Head of Unit, and Frank Cunningham, Evaluation Specialist. Improve Network Phase Changes to Bring Ideas to Market Faster Many industries are challenged by very long time periods from an initial discovery to full commercialization of a product.

Research Reinvented have polled the Twitterverse (I hate that word!) to find the most influential people in the market and consumer research areas to follow. At FreshNetworks we make the most of strong research credentials, both in our specific online research communities , but also helping all of our clients make the most of the insight they can get from online communities . Rather ingratiatingly I’m one of them and now get to wait to see if I make the top 10. You can read more of our recent research posts from making online research better to one on

actually research or shop online need and want. you'll learn a lot more about their value than if you just research them introduce innovations that have broader applicability across the organization. research process that good R&D departments use. BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka

The heart of MIT is its intellectual rather than physical infrastructure: a research culture that creates room for new ideas by emphasizing their evaluation through rapid reduction to practice, and by mixing short-term applications (both serious and silly) with long-term research. recently helped plan substantial buildings to accommodate research growth at MIT and in the fab lab network; the former, at $100 million, was about 100 times the cost of the latter. It’s much harder, however, to make room for new people by squeezing them into the same limited campus space. I

We’ve written before about the real power that online research communities can bring to a brand, and also of the way in which you can get insight from any online community . They provide a real hub for innovation and co-creation and give you access to real-time insight. At FreshNetworks we have built online communities from scratch, and also worked  with organisations who have an incumbent The promise of rich insight is great - real people talking to each other about your brand, market and competitors. But sometimes they just don’t seem to work, they just don’t

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Special Issue: Open R&D and Open Innovation . This seems a closed academic journal, but the folllowing sample articles should show the articles are very promising: * Open R&D and open innovation: exploring the phenomenon . There is currently a broad awareness of open innovation and its relevance to corporate R&D. Edited by Ellen Enkel, Oliver Gassmann, and Henry Chesbrough. Volume 39 Issue 4, August 2009.

This may be increased sales, a specific number of new ideas generated for the business, increased retention rate, traffic to an ecommerce platform, savings in market and consumer research spending… The areas where online communities can contribute to business objectives can be vast and depend on the specific needs of the business. Five ways to use an online research community in 2009 (freshnetworks.com) Image via Wikipedia On Friday we posted about an experiment running on one of our online communities , comparing paid and organic search strategies .

the Internet and other electronic sources of information for research, but but most research was done using the internal library or outside journals. innovate, make acquisitions, outsource, reorganize or change capital structure manage opportunity, a few will invest in innovation, but for most larger BLOG What's Next After Knowledge Knowledge Management?

In February this year a survey on the market research industry in 2009 showed two very different pictures. The research, sponsored by online-oriented companies Cambiar, MRops and Peanut Labs, found that whilst clients and agencies alike predicted a small growth in the market of about 1%, this did not tell the full story. There are a number of reasons for clients bringing research inhouse. Although they saw the market growing slightly in 2009, they thought that the proportion of work that was brought inhouse would increase significantly. The current economic climate is making