Corporate R&D Blog and Academic Research Insights

The case for external collaboration in R&D is more substantial than most organizations treat it. Research on this topic spans high-tech manufacturing, pharmaceutical development, and large-scale cross-country firm surveys, and points in a consistent direction: companies that draw on outside knowledge sources outperform those that do not. A 2022 study in the Journal of Innovation […]

Explore how on-demand expert networks help B2B product teams reduce uncertainty, validate technical paths, and accelerate specialized product development cycles.

Learn how deep tech ventures can reduce subject matter expert procurement costs by using structured academic expert sourcing and research collaboration workflows.

A practical guide to using B2B research collaboration tools to source verified academic experts, structure R&D projects, and accelerate corporate innovation.

Why the next era of corporate R&D belongs to teams that pair machine intelligence with human expertise Every innovation leader I’ve spoken with this month is saying some version of the same thing: “We have access to AI. We still can’t move fast enough.” It’s a strange paradox. The most well-resourced R&D teams in the […]

A conversation with Jennifer Feitosa, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychological Science and researcher at the frontier of team science. About Jennifer Feitosa, Ph.D. Jennifer Feitosa, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychological Science at Claremont McKenna College, a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and Director of the METRICS Lab. Her research focuses on teamwork, diversity, and measurement, […]

The Innovation Imperative Meets the Security Challenge In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the race to innovate is more intense than ever. Companies are increasingly looking beyond their internal walls to accelerate research and development (R&D) pipelines, tapping into the vast knowledge reservoirs of academic researchers and specialized experts. This open innovation model, while incredibly […]

The quiet erosion of scientific fluency inside industrial companies — and why it matters more than most R&D budget conversations do. There’s a version of the innovation problem that gets talked about constantly: companies aren’t investing enough in R&D. Budget cuts, short-termism, the relentless pressure of quarterly earnings. That narrative is real, and the data […]

The industry is staring down a genuine innovation crisis. The companies that solve it won’t do it by brainstorming harder. Something is broken in how consumer packaged goods companies develop new products. Not broken in a fixable-with-a-new-process-framework way. Broken in a way that points to a structural gap that most CPG boardrooms haven’t named correctly […]

  Tariff rates referenced in this article reflect policy as reported through mid-2025. Given the pace of trade policy changes, specific figures may have shifted since publication. The strategic implications remain. Trade policy has always shaped supply chains. But what’s happening right now is different in kind, not just degree. Something fundamental is changing in […]

Federal funding cuts are reshaping corporate R&D, university partnerships, and how companies access scientific expertise.

The Big Picture: The Infrastructure Advantage For years, AI adoption was measured by how many tools a company deployed. In 2026, that metric will be obsolete. The new question is: how fast can you move a winning idea from one market to every market? Colgate-Palmolive’s global rollout of its purple whitening toothpaste, piloted in China, […]