Tag Archives: R&D

How to Win a War

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted to Medium. What do you need to win a war? A few things. First, an army equipped with modern weapons and instilled with high … Continue reading →

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Ideas are a dime a dozen. Are they really?

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Eugene Ivanov

The image was created with the help of Microsoft Designer This piece has been originally posted on Medium. Did you hear that idea generation is the easiest part of the innovation process? I’m sure you did. Generating ideas is easy, … Continue reading →

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Do Wars Boost Innovation?

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Eugene Ivanov

A slightly different version of this piece was originally published on Change Logic’s Viewpoint Blog. War is a horrible thing. Images of killed, wounded, or orphaned Ukrainian kids, victims of Russia’s barbaric aggression, leave little room for the belief that … Continue reading →

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Location (Location, Location) and Innovation

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Eugene Ivanov

In my previous post, I discussed evidence indicating that liberal social policies make U.S. states implementing them more innovative. If so, one would expect that liberal U.S. states are in general more innovative than conservative. To see if there is … Continue reading →

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Does the Term “Closed Innovation” Still Have Meaning?

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

(This piece was originally posted to the HeroX blog) Remember the famed Bell Labs, once a powerful R&D center for the telecommunication equipment company Lucent Technologies (acquired by Nokia in 2016)? Bell Labs’ researchers are credited with the development of radio … Continue reading →

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Innovation: The Role of Money and Government

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

Over the past couple of months, I have attempted to assess the role of a few major socio-economic factors on the national innovation potential. To do that, I ran a series of simple regression tests to estimate the correlation between … Continue reading →

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Innovation and Money

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Eugene Ivanov

In my previous post, I further explored the notion that the ability of a country to innovate correlates with the level of political freedoms in this country. In particular, I showed that no such correlation exists for non-democratic countries (as … Continue reading →

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Innovation and U.S. National Security

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Eugene Ivanov

The important role innovation plays in economic growth and prosperity of the world’s nations is well documented. A recent report by the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, highlights the crucial … Continue reading →

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Show Me The Money!

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Eugene Ivanov

(This post originally appeared on Danish Crowdsourcing Association website) I strongly believe that as an open innovation tool, crowdsourcing has a bright future, but only if it proves its economic worth. In other words, when properly designed and executed, a … Continue reading →

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