Title :
Stimulate innovation-give your creative employees a mini-fellowship
Author :
Holly, Douglas H. ; Fritz, Roger L. ; Wicklund, John
Author_Institution :
TTC, Germantown, MD, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a program used to encourage creativity in the technical community. A small portion of research and development funding is used for creative and innovative employee-initiated projects. The process involves a broad cross-section of the technical community in the identification, selection and support of innovative research ideas. It is designed to encourage employees to bring new product and process ideas forward and compete for funding. Selected researchers are given a nurturing environment to pursue a technical area of personal interest, a mini-fellowship
Keywords :
research and development management; creative employees; innovation stimulation; innovative employee-initiated projects; innovative research identification; innovative research selection; innovative research support; mini-fellowship; research and development funding; technical community; Abstracts; Business; Feeds; Investments; Pipelines; Proposals; Research and development; Resource management; Solids; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering and Technology Management, 1998. Pioneering New Technologies: Management Issues and Challenges in the Third Millennium. IEMC '98 Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Juan, PR
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5082-0
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.1998.727750
