Innovation Management

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.

Successful growth in new sectors requires balancing support for the core business with investment in radical innovation.

GE Appliances president and CEO Kevin Nolan discusses differing approaches to management and innovation at GE and Haier.

Insecure managers who feel threatened by subordinates who have innovative ideas need incentives to change their behavior.

Leaders can better create and assess a corporate venture capital strategy by considering a series of key questions.

The way many companies run innovation contests needs improvement. Structure the contests to match organizational goals.

Giving more new ideas an opportunity to develop over time can give rise to unexpected breakthrough innovations.

Organizations need to take a new approach to governance of digital innovation initiatives.

Exponential growth has been key to technology’s progress. The same is needed for climate action.

The authors created a three-step framework aimed at helping leaders at incumbent companies identify and execute their deep-tech engagement strategies.

Many companies master new business ideation and incubation, but few follow a rigorous scaling path.

Leaders are meeting employee demands for more flexible work arrangements amid culture and innovation concerns.

Multinationals must understand the forces driving both digital globalization and localization to optimize innovation.

Articulating an emotionally engaging higher purpose for their companies helps leaders drive innovation.

Research points to three barriers to deep-tech corporate venturing success that chief innovation officers can overcome.

The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.

Mercedes-Benz has embraced open innovation as a way to speed up its internal R&D processes.

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

An environment of continuous disruption requires the development of digital innovation capabilities.