Strategic R&D Management

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Managing a portfolio of processes for different types of innovations

• Why is it important that portfolio management goes beyond financial evaluations?
• What are the best practices for devising competitive portfolios?

Innovation strategy
and execution

• What are the ways in which R&D can contribute optimally to overall company goals?
• Are there alternative sources of innovation other than product or technology?

Measuring R&D innovation performance

• Why are many current evaluation systems unsatisfactory?
• What does a good R&D measurement system look like?

Structures for portfolio innovation

• What does good team management consist of?
• How do you put in place structures when teams are globally diverse?

Organisational innovativeness and idea creation

• Which R&D processes foster creative organisations?
• How can we increase organisational creativity?