Iain Kerr presented at the February 8, 2023 GUIRR Meeting: Strategic Innovation and Commercialization a panel titled: Next Horizons and New Models for Driving Innovation Landscapes Across US STEM Sectors at the National Academy of Sciences conference: Strategic Innovation and Commercialization - Supporting IP and Tech Transfer to Advance U.S. Research Competitiveness.
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In order to drive innovation in an ever-accelerating R&D environment, in which new stakeholders and funding is rushing in to fill gaps in resources, new models for cross-cutting collaboration need to be developed. Can we identify existing systems and platforms that are successfully integrating disparate parts of the U.S. R&D ecosystem and accelerating technology from idea to market? What do we need to understand and harness about innovation itself in order to develop new models, markets, and over-the horizon thinking with respect to forming high-impact partnerships that will result in driving cutting-edge technologies in the marketplace as efficiently as possible.
Summary: Next Horizons and New Models for Driving Innovation Landscapes Across US STEM Sectors
Iain Kerr (Emergent Futures Lab) offered what he called a disruptive perspective to drive STEM innovation. He referred to a recent paper in Nature in which the authors reviewed articles and patents to posit that since the 1940s, the United States has become less disruptively innovative, which slows progress in some fields. 4 Kerr differentiated between radical and developmental innovation (Figure 2). Radical innovation makes qualitative differences and is disruptive, while developmental innovation is more incremental. Developmental innovation is done well in universities and industry, he said, but paradoxically, the techniques used can undermine radical innovation.
Iain's panel begins at 4h59m17s:
