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9 Article

The Rise and Fall of the Industrial R&D Lab

For a time in recent history, R&D labs seemed to exist in a golden age of innovation and productivity. But this period vanished as swiftly as it came to be. How did it happen, and why did it fade away?
Ben Southwood
Works in Progress, 2020
8 Book

The Innovation Tournament Handbook

A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Exceptional Solutions to Any Challenge
Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich
Wharton School Press, 2023
8 Article
Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice, 2022
9 Article
Matt Langione et al.
Boston Consulting Group, 2019
9 Video
Polina Anikeeva
World.Minds, 2017
8 Article
Lars Frølund et al.
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2017
9 Report

Innovation in Life Sciences

An Emerging Markets Perspective
The Economist Intelligence Unit
EIU, 2015
9 Book

The Technology Machine

How Manufacturing Will Work in the Year 2020
Patricia E. Moody and Richard E. Morley
Free Press, 1999
8 Article
David J. Epstein and ProPublica
The Atlantic, 2017
8 Article

The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results.
Michael Pollan
The New Yorker, 2015
8 Video

Sprint

Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Talks at Google, 2016