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Why Industry Consulting is the Starting Point to for Funding
Research funding in the United States took a real hit in 2026, and researchers are feeling it directly. In a US national survey covered by STAT News in March 2026, more than a quarter of respondents had laid off lab members, and more than two out of every five had canceled planned research because of […]
4 Reasons Expert Verification Matters More than Ever for R&D
Most R&D teams don’t have an information problem anymore. They have a verification problem. An AI tool can summarize a body of literature in minutes, and a database search can surface thousands of potentially relevant papers by lunch. The hard part is determining the quality of those findings before your team spends a year and […]
5 Consumer Products Shaped by Short-Term Expert Consulting Projects
If you run open innovation, R&D partnerships, or technology scouting at a large company, you’ve likely hit this wall: a fluid-dynamics problem, a materials question, or a piece of behavioral science that nobody in the building can answer. Standing up a new outside partner to close that gap usually takes 3 to 6 months once […]
Six Ways Academics Can Build Real Industry Connections (Without Leaving the Lab)
Most advice aimed at researchers who want to work with industry assumes you’re trying to leave academia. Many blogs cover the classic playbook for the PhD-to-industry career switch: resume formatting, cover letters, and technical interviews. However, many faculty, postdocs, and senior researchers aren’t looking for a new job. They want something more specific: a consulting […]
Your next breakthrough may be waiting in a university lab
With global scientific output surging by nearly 60% in a decade, R&D teams are now expected to navigate millions of new peer-reviewed articles every single year (NSF, National Science Board). The knowledge that doesn’t make it into journals is many times larger, but both are often invisible to R&D teams. Much of what a lab […]
The case for external partnerships in research and innovation
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 […]
How On-Demand Expert Networks Accelerate Specialized B2B Product Development Cycles
Explore how on-demand expert networks help B2B product teams reduce uncertainty, validate technical paths, and accelerate specialized product development cycles.
Reducing Technical Subject Matter Expert Procurement Costs for Deep Tech Ventures
Learn how deep tech ventures can reduce subject matter expert procurement costs by using structured academic expert sourcing and research collaboration workflows.
B2B Research Collaboration Tools: How Corporate Innovation Teams Source Verified Academic Experts
A practical guide to using B2B research collaboration tools to source verified academic experts, structure R&D projects, and accelerate corporate innovation.
AI Can Find the Research. It Can't Replace the Researcher.
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 […]
Expert spotlight — NotedSource Rethinking diversity, teams, and the AI blind spot
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, […]
Safeguarding Innovation: Fortifying Data Security & IP Protection in R&D Collaborations
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 […]
You Can't Evaluate What You No Longer Understand
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 […]
CPG Innovation Is at Its Lowest Rate Since 1996. That's Not a Creativity Problem.
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 […]
The Tariff Shock Is Rewiring Global Supply Chains. Here's What Your Company Needs to Do.
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 and the Future of Corporate R&D
Federal funding cuts are reshaping corporate R&D, university partnerships, and how companies access scientific expertise.
Colgate AI Playbook for Global Product Scaling
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, […]
Why Consumer Goods are Racing for Brain-Safe Certifications
Why brain-safe certifications are becoming a strategic issue for consumer goods brands, product teams, and wellness leaders.
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