History tells us that after a time of crisis, societies often enjoy prosperity and growth, says Alberto Nucciarelli, Associate Professor at the University of Trento (UniTn). "Universities are a place where people learn about the past, design the future and become aware of the potential that people have in making our lives better – in every possible sense.

"I see hosting R&D 2022 as our commitment to imagining the future."

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Accelerators have moved from being simple support organizations to become a key part of economic development policy, but are the models developed mainly in the US and Europe appropriate for emerging economies?

Fizza Khalid, a doctoral researcher at University of Edinburgh Business School in Entrepreneurship & Innovation group, is investigating, and we asked her about her findings.

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Two new Co-Editors-in-Chief - Alberto Di Minin and Paavo Ritala - have exciting plans for the R&D Management Journal, and they are supported by an impressive editorial team spanning academic and commercial spheres of R&D and technology management.

In this video they tell us of their plans and future special editions.

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Digital platforms are used increasingly in the business-to-business sector to deliver services. But research by Marin Jovanovic and colleagues has revealed that they are very different to those created by firms like Spotify, Netflix, Uber, Airbnb etc in the business-to-consumer sector. Instead they aim to create value with their customers, suppliers, technology providers, and competitors.

We asked Marin about their paper ‘Co-evolution of platform architecture, platform services, and platform governance: Expanding the platform value of industrial digital platforms’ and the implications of the findings.

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Roadmapping can be used to visualise the technology strategy, align it with the business mission and help create consensus on the direction of travel. The course leaders explain why roadmapping is a vital tool in a time of rapid change. 

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