Research & Development

Research suggests modular design competence can benefit new product development

Phys.org. A new research study suggests that supplier integration into the new product development process can be more beneficial if buyers increase their competency in modular design.Penn State Smeal College of Business faculty member Veronica H. Villena and her colleague Fabrizio Salvador of the IE Business School in Madrid examined the ways modular design competence can mitigate costs and chall...

5 Simple rules for making your first app

Stu Stein. It's hard not to get sucked into the app economy. Apple's paid out a total of $6.5 billion to developers, and successes like Angry Birds or Instragram seem so simple. If you designed the right app, you could do it too.That's kind of how we started. We saw Steve Jobs announce the iPad in 2010, and we envisioned a new type of children's books for the iPad. We would re-write Hansel and Gre...

Ask the Expert: 'You have an idea for a product. Now what?'

Joe Schappler. It is exciting! You say, "I can't believe nobody has done this yet." But an idea, in and of itself, does not have much value unless you can do something with it, such as developing the idea into a product that can be commercialized. A common misconception among inventors is that a raw idea or even a product concept is highly valuable.Getting a product into the marketplace can be a r...

Innovation key for Kraft

Warc staff reporter. Kraft, the food group, is prioritising innovation as a means of boosting sales, not least through adopting a "glocal" approach to new product development.New figures from the brand owner indicate that the proportion of overall revenues generated from sales of new products rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2011.Jean Spence, Kraft's executive vice president for research, develo...

Why some startups succeed and others fail: 10 fascinating Harvard findings

Alyson Shontell. Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner and David Scharfstein put together a Harvard Business School working paper to answer that question, Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship.In it, they answer things like:Do first time entrepreneurs have it harder?What's in a VC's name?Are successful entrepreneurs skilled or just lucky?After scouring the 35 page document, here are the fas...

Research and Development a must for sustainable agriculture

Philippine Information Agency, Iloilo City. The Department of Agriculture (DA) Region VI pushed for strong research and development efforts for sustainable agriculture, during the R&D symposium held here recently. OIC Regional Executive Director Jindra Linda L. Demetrio said that it is the vision of the agency to develop a facility enabling Filipino scientists and research institutions ...

Open source

Paula Rooney, CRN. A new frontier is opening up in the open-source space, where a third wave of software adoption is taking root higher up the stack - at the business application layer - and further downmarket, where solution providers are best positioned to profit. Emerging open-source business applicationsfrom companies such as SugarCRM, Plone, Compiere, JasperSoft and Pentaho are being adopted ...

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